Hi so I’m having some issues with my tank. Things were going really good then corals started to go downhill. It started with my lobo receding. I assumed this was light or flow so moved it. My chalice then started to develop brown blobs but I put this down to my regal tang nipping at it. Now my gold torch has one head semi detached from the base and the other two heads on the same stalk are looking very sad. I put this down to flow and about an hour ago installed a flow barrier but it had me thinking this may be BJD? My montipora is also developing brown bits.
I also considered dinos and am dosing hydrogen peroxide for this. It could all just be different issues but if it’s BJD I can pretty easily get hold of some cipro to do a tank treatment.
Recent changes are adding the new gold torch on 7th September and started dosing tm bacto balance on 23rd August. The chalice was the only one with the brown blobs before the torch was added but it did coincide with swapping over to tm bacto balance. I have now stopped the bacto balance as it wasn’t working for what I intended anyway. I am running carbon and gfo. I did also have a salinity swing last week when my auto water changer messed up and am slowly increasing my salinity back up since then.
Tank parameters are included in the picture below. Alk is tested daily. Phosphate and nitrate once a week and calcium and magnesium once a month. Automatic water change of 1% a day. Photos taken with orphek orange filter so it’s not just all blue. Thanks for your help and sorry for the long read.
I also considered dinos and am dosing hydrogen peroxide for this. It could all just be different issues but if it’s BJD I can pretty easily get hold of some cipro to do a tank treatment.
Recent changes are adding the new gold torch on 7th September and started dosing tm bacto balance on 23rd August. The chalice was the only one with the brown blobs before the torch was added but it did coincide with swapping over to tm bacto balance. I have now stopped the bacto balance as it wasn’t working for what I intended anyway. I am running carbon and gfo. I did also have a salinity swing last week when my auto water changer messed up and am slowly increasing my salinity back up since then.
Tank parameters are included in the picture below. Alk is tested daily. Phosphate and nitrate once a week and calcium and magnesium once a month. Automatic water change of 1% a day. Photos taken with orphek orange filter so it’s not just all blue. Thanks for your help and sorry for the long read.