Popcorn ceiling killing my hard coral?

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Hey, so the last few months I've had sps and lps dying on me. All parameters are same as last 5 years. Couldn't figure it out. Last night i notice a white pebble on the rim of my tank. Trying to figure out what it was, I looked up and notice the ceiling above my tank is falling! Little yellow bare spots where popcorn should be. Could this be my murderer
I need to know what's killing my 4 year old plate coral.
 

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Pre 1980 had asbestos in it , and post was just foam / paper the latter I find hard to believe would kill a tank .
 
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House was built in 73. Not sure how new the popcorn is
 
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It's just so weird. My Hollywood stunner and plate Coral we're two of my first corals and they are both all but dead. Parameters are perfect. Certain LPS are dying While others are just fine. Softees seem to be doing better than ever. Almost all sps are dying.
 

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Could have the asbestos then , I'd run some poly filters an carbon w/c then get a spray can of it and fix it just tarp the tank and open some windows should be good to go.
 
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Trumpet and candy cane are slowly receding. It's so awful watchin my babies die! 2 of my six head frogspawn are dying. Right beside each other. My frag rack is the same. Top 2 are tucked and the rest are fine. Cup coral is in awful shape. Again had it since an inch. This big plate has been in my system since 2". Years :(

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Right. I just don't know.... done 4 30% water changes in the past 45 days. :(
 
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Peach tube, gbta, rbta, red flower, and 2 mini carpets. So yes. Lol
 

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Wiz very sad..
May you post best pics macro if is possible were tissue of lps receide
 

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The bare patches in your pagoda looking coral, and the overall condition of everything suggests a phosphate deficiency too me. Your nitrates are low (for my tastes) and your alk is pretty high for running almost no nutrients. It could be one, or all of these things. (It could also be contamination).

How long have your phosphate been undetectable? Phosphate deficiency does horrible things to corals. Much much worse than nitrate deficiency!

It really looks like a phosphate starvation event too me.
 
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My phosphates have been undetectable since I got my fuge going. I dropped the reactor as soon as it was stable. Have not registered phosphate since. However I do have a opsys bubble algae and hair algae in my fuse. And a red Turf type algae in the display. So I am sure there are phosphates they are just immeasurable
 
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I have way more inhabitants including fish than anyone would suggest. And feed quite heavily. I have a hard time believing that phosphate deficiency is my problem
 

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