everything has RTN

[jrod11]

Met with Bogg tonight and he was incredibly helpful. We tested everything. The high salinity has already been addressed and aside from that i had an ALK of 6. Adding a few corals dropped me my alk to a point that I couldnt maintain with just kalkwasser.

I have a jasper reactor that I'm going to set up to fix the alk problem. The salinity might have been the cause for the RTN, the octospawn looks better.

[jrod11]

Update:

Thanks to boggs help, I have had the jasper calcium reactor up and running for a week. It has held steady alk and calcium params, but unforunately I am still losing corals to RTN. I'm at the point where i almost have no corals anymore. I'm hoping that things will bottom out and that they will start adjusting to the new params and start to heal up. Any input or advice?

[jesse100g]

Wow. This is quite the saga. Keep the readers posted. I'm newish to the hobby and all the stories on here have been very educational. Sorry about your loss. I feel your pain on the frustrations. Going through some myself. Makes the hobby difficult to enjoy sometimes. But I asm hopefull...

[jrod11]

Got a barrell of scripps water and changed some out last night and plan on doing 15 gallon water changes every day.

I'm starting to wonder if my sand bed is exhausted or maybe even toxic. Do you guys replace your sandbed? Stir it up? If so how often?

[jesse100g]

I've been told to change it every 1.5 yrs. But that was because I had a nitrate problem

[stephj03]

I have heard that iodine dips can help, but I haven't ever tried this on a coral that was RTNing

[bpro32]

I've revive-dipped stuff that was STNing and reversed the effects, but I dont know that it would help you at this point :/

[jrod11]

Currently contemplating starting over with new sand bed and new LR. fish are totally fine. Wish the rest of the tank was as easy as my fish!

[stephj03]

Are you sure you don't have any coral pests? AEFW, red bugs, asterina stars?

[jrod11]

Are you sure you don't have any coral pests? AEFW, red bugs, asterina stars?

Never seen any flatworms or red bugs. Every once in a while an asternina will show up, but I remove it. Sent you a PM btw..

[jesse100g]

Isn't there something u could do for the lr versus replacing it? That could be pricey. Just a thought

[jrod11]

Isn't there something u could do for the lr versus replacing it? That could be pricey. Just a thought

never heard of one, but if you know how let me know! lol

[bpro32]

never heard of one, but if you know how let me know! lol

bake it, boil it, freshwater soak then dry it out in the sun... lots you can do

[jrod11]

bake it, boil it, freshwater soak then dry it out in the sun... lots you can do

Learn something new everyday. Right on!

Just finished doing about a 35 gallon water change. by this weekend i will have changed out 100% of the water in my tank.

[bpro32]

if you think the sand is the problem, siphon out a little at a time with water changes, but only a little. As long as you do it slow you shouldn't do any extra damage.