Corals dying and looking pale :-(

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  1. rcflyer1388

    rcflyer1388 Bubble Tip Anemone

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    I have no idea what's going on with the tank. All my monti's look awful and taking a turn for the worst. As well as my candy cane and a few more. However others are looking great with growth. My 90 gal tank params are good in my opinion.
    PH- 8.0-8.3 daily
    Salinity-1.025
    Temp: 77-79
    Nitrates-0
    Phos- .04ppm
    Alk - 7dkh (API test)
    Calc - 430
    Mag - 1420

    I perform weekly 5 gal changes using Kent salt. It's just weird that they started looking like this about a week and half ago. Out of ideas as to what it can be. At first I thought starving corals so I feed reef chili every other day and dosed elos amino twice a week. Here's a couple iPhone pics to show a few different pieces. The first 3 are some of the ones in bad shape.
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  3. Billme

    Billme Eyelash Blennie

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    How long have you been dosing amino's? Have you checked usual suspects like stray voltage, broken heater?
     
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  5. rcflyer1388

    rcflyer1388 Bubble Tip Anemone

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    been using it for as long as I remember with no issues....heater is brand new. and I haven't checked yet for stray volts.
     
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    rcflyer1388 Bubble Tip Anemone

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    it nips here and there but nothing serious. had it for over a year and never had issues unless it went rogue on me lol.
     
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    Billme Eyelash Blennie

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    Any changes to water flow? Also, I've been reading lately that direct one direction flow can be hard on sps.
     
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  9. rcflyer1388

    rcflyer1388 Bubble Tip Anemone

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    I've made that mistake before when I first got into sps actually. in this case there was no change in flow. and actually I just got home from work and noticed that they are kinda sorta looking better. I'm hoping it was the T5 light addition that fixes the issue and not water chemistry. Which goes back to thinking that the LED units might be going bad and falling out of spectrum.
     
  10. rcflyer1388

    rcflyer1388 Bubble Tip Anemone

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    I think I might be on to something with the cause. I decided to recalibrate my PH probe on the apex. And it was off by .25! meaning at night when it showed 7.9-8 it was really 7.65ish!
     
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    Reef_Ninja Spaghetti Worm

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    How long have you been using it un-calibrated?
     
  12. rcflyer1388

    rcflyer1388 Bubble Tip Anemone

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    last time I calibrated it was when I got it. I would say around April last year .