vho Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 What is happening to my Branching Hammer? It was happy and in full bloom a week ago and starting Monday it started looking not to happy. It's a 1.5 gallon tank, weekly water changes, and most recently I started doing small water changes every other day to clear up some cyano. I've recently placed a new open brain coral frag into the tank near it and thats when it started looking sad. I ran some carbon in the HOB filter for 24 hours and have since removed the bag and did a water change. As you can see in one of the pics, the right head was in full bloom and happy. Link to comment
Clown79 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 What are your parameters? When doing all these waterchanges, are your parameters the same? Is there direct flow on it? How close is the brain to the frogspawn? Link to comment
vho Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 I found out what my problem was. My LFS sold me saltwater that was 1.012. They asked me if I only get water from them and when I said yes, they knew they did me wrong.Ended up giving me 50% a refractometer, a bag of salt, and gave me instructions to slowly dose my salinity back up.50% off was not worth them crashing my tank.I did 3 water changes last week hoping that would fix my problem. Guess that was a bad bad idea. Link to comment
LbulletM Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Sucks when it's not even your fault. Hope everything recovers! Link to comment
Clown79 Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 My biggest piece of advice to anyone- make your own water. If you can't do an ro/di system, buy distilled water. I do. For piece of mind its worth it. Lfs are notorious for having low salinity for economy sake and all it takes is one employee to not give a s!$t and its all screwed up. Not to mention you control your water completely when you mix it yourself. Now that you figured out the issue its easy to correct. Just top up with salt water until its corrected. Link to comment
vho Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 I took a cup of water out today, added salt, mixed it well, and added it back to the tank. Will be repeating that process over the next few days to make sure I don't shock my tank again of the sudden jump of salinity. I liked (emphasis on the past tense) getting my water from the LFS because it gave me a chance to talk to the associates and other people since this is my first tank. I think this is just one bad accident. Sucks it happened to me since its a 1.5 gallon and there is no room for large swings like this. But rather me, with my "bargain" tank frags than someone else with more at risk. Here's a pic of my tank pre-issue and a day after I transferred it from my old 1 gallon so some of the corals hadn't adjusted yet. Link to comment
Clown79 Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Are you checking the salinity of the saltwater you added? Given it time to fully disolve? Link to comment
vho Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 Yes, I've been testing it non-stop. I'm going a little faster than I should. But it's now just a waiting game to see if it will bounce back. Link to comment
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