DB9181
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Alright ... I severally pissed off my tank.
Last week noticed some HA on my eggcrate frag racks so I thought i minus well re-generate my 2 bags of purigen. In the meantime I thought I'd try out a bag (1 unit) of chemipure since I had taken out my carbon to change it out afew weeks back and forgot to replace it. I've never had issues w/ activated carbon in filter bags undernegth my 2 drains going into the sump. I thought I rinsed out the chemipure enough but noticed probably 80% of my Z/P collected partically closed/shrivled up. Also noticed some SPS RTNing, and my purple idaho crap out on me... Not really concerned about the SPS, more worried about my Z/Ps - Thinking maybe the SPS were due to an alk swing or something.
My thought is that particulate matter from the chemipure (being rinsed too well or not well enough) was irritating my z/ps. This past weekend i took a closer look and the HA had really started taking over my eggcrate racks.
View attachment 18122
(It was pretty solid/thick in between the eggcrate)
So I removed the rest of the racks I had in there and move those frags to the sandbed - No HA growing on rocks. I manually removed as much as I could from some of the plugs, the bad ones i did a peroxide dip. Thinking that it was particulate matter in the water that was irritating the rest of the poylps i removed the chemipure, started running my skimmer wet, added back in the regenerated purigen, put filter floss in between the sump baffles to try and catch debris and did a 25% WC (25-30gals). Things seem to be doing slightly better - I added 2 frags from AP post WC, etc and they seem to be open like normal ... some of my others are starting to open more but im still worried about it.
Any other suggestions??? Another big water change? Some additive/supplement? Dip in revive? I have a nice order coming from PZ tomorrow and want to have the best situation possible - as i mentioned, frags added post WC, etc seem to be fairing much better than the frags that were in my tank the whole time. I may add afew frags from my frag tank to the DT tonight just to see how the polyps react...
Advice? Oh and no i dont have test results/readings... I can get them tonight, but I dont really think its a Ammonia, etc issue.
Last week noticed some HA on my eggcrate frag racks so I thought i minus well re-generate my 2 bags of purigen. In the meantime I thought I'd try out a bag (1 unit) of chemipure since I had taken out my carbon to change it out afew weeks back and forgot to replace it. I've never had issues w/ activated carbon in filter bags undernegth my 2 drains going into the sump. I thought I rinsed out the chemipure enough but noticed probably 80% of my Z/P collected partically closed/shrivled up. Also noticed some SPS RTNing, and my purple idaho crap out on me... Not really concerned about the SPS, more worried about my Z/Ps - Thinking maybe the SPS were due to an alk swing or something.
My thought is that particulate matter from the chemipure (being rinsed too well or not well enough) was irritating my z/ps. This past weekend i took a closer look and the HA had really started taking over my eggcrate racks.
View attachment 18122
(It was pretty solid/thick in between the eggcrate)
So I removed the rest of the racks I had in there and move those frags to the sandbed - No HA growing on rocks. I manually removed as much as I could from some of the plugs, the bad ones i did a peroxide dip. Thinking that it was particulate matter in the water that was irritating the rest of the poylps i removed the chemipure, started running my skimmer wet, added back in the regenerated purigen, put filter floss in between the sump baffles to try and catch debris and did a 25% WC (25-30gals). Things seem to be doing slightly better - I added 2 frags from AP post WC, etc and they seem to be open like normal ... some of my others are starting to open more but im still worried about it.
Any other suggestions??? Another big water change? Some additive/supplement? Dip in revive? I have a nice order coming from PZ tomorrow and want to have the best situation possible - as i mentioned, frags added post WC, etc seem to be fairing much better than the frags that were in my tank the whole time. I may add afew frags from my frag tank to the DT tonight just to see how the polyps react...
Advice? Oh and no i dont have test results/readings... I can get them tonight, but I dont really think its a Ammonia, etc issue.