I'm thinking warfare. need advice..

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My tank has been doing fine the past few months. Then about a week ago I started to notice alot of changes. Most of which started the past 2 days. My mushrooms don't open like they used to, My glaxea started tunring white on the base and retracted, My SPS tips started to turn white, my blasto doesn't completely open. shrimps, snails and my blenny are all fine. All my levels are great. but I also started getting slime algae about a week ago and it's growing fast. My zooes seem to be fine. Nothing to to close to another. Anyone have any ideas ? could this be warfare from one of the corals ? Please help.


Cal 450
DKH 10
PH 8.1
phosphate 0
nitrite 0
amonia 0
Nitrate 5
silicate 0
sal .026

Readings from last night !!!!

Please help !!!
 
IMO your alk is kind of high, that could be the cause. I usually keep my alk about 8.5 DKH. If the tissue is coming off of your hard corals, that is what I would suspect.
 
my alk maintains at that level. I have tried to lower it a little but it goes right back up. not sure of the cause
 
i probably wouldn't know but isn't the PH too high?
 
Alk and pH are perfect... as are the rest of the readings. Do you have any leathers in the tank and do you run carbon? If your answer is no/yes then I doubt it is chemical warefare, although not completely ruling that out since you have a galaxia.. but if even that isn't doing good then something is seriously wrong.

Are you possitive no one put anything in the tank.. metal objects.. shiney penny.. things like that? I knew someone that had their entire tank crash because a "friend" thought it would be funny to hide a thumbtack in the sand.. thinking when the owner put his hand in the tank to clean the sand he would get stuck with the pin... problem was the person didn't stir the sand and the tank crashed. Finally found it when he was tearing it all down to sell. Never did find out exactly who did it either but narrowed it down to 2 "ex" friends.
 
lol.... No thumb tacks. Nothing out of the ordinary. The odd part is my pink xenia in doing fine and my brown looks a little wilted. I only run cabron on accasion for a few days at a time. none in there now. I am heading down to get some in a few to run it through. I don't have any leathers. I just added some extra air because my blenny looked like he was breathing a little heavy. He seems better now. could that have any effect ? low oxygen levels ? I tried researching the effects of low oxygen but couldn't really find anything.
 
on a side note i only run dual canister filters on my 50gal. I think most of you have seen the pics and know why. it's all i have room for. I was contimplating running liverock only in one of them. anyone ever tried this ? i was thinking of putting rubble in it. I clean them weekly. If i don't my nitates rise. They are a bit high right now at % usually they run around 2. But i am due for a water change and filter cleaning right now which i am going to start in a few. If thats not such a good idea any thoughts on what type of media I should use in them?
 
If you put rock in one of them no need to clean them out... they should be self cleaning for the most part. Maybe once or twice a year take the rock out and rinse out the cansiter real quick then put the rock right back in so it doesn't get dry. Nothing wrong with doing that and much easier to maintain. I run rock in my HOB filter with just some filter floss and bag of chemi-pure elite on top of the rock on my Rena Smartfilter I have on my 29G.

As for media for the other container.. chemi-pure or any other "cheaper" high grade carbon like from bulkreefsupply.com .. make sure it is good carbon though and not PetSmart Black Diamond type of carbon. Also a bag of Phosban or cheaper bulkreefsupply GFO never hurts as long as your not forcing too much flow through it and breaking it into dust.
 
what's your opinion on the use of sponges in them. From what i have read some people say not to use them at all. And as aloways thats for the great help. it's def appreciated !
 
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