I am ecstatic to announce that both of my systems are now recovering! Unfortunately, I cannot say for sure which change is responsible and I am not about to revert back to try to answer that question. All I know is it was either the CO2 media “dust” being present in the water column or the Red Sea Coral Pro salt. After taking the CO2 scrubbers offline, I seen an improvement for about 2 days and then things got worse, once again. The same roller coaster I’ve been on for 8 months. So, I don’t think it was the scrubber in and of itself causing the problem. There was still something in the water causing damage.
A little over a week ago I did a 20% water change in the 40 with Live Aquaria salt. After 2 days I started seeing excellent results. Mind you, I have only had about 4 SPS (out of too many to count) ever survive after showing damage. A week in now and I’m seeing most of the damaged corals healing. After seeing these results in the 40, I decided to go ahead and do a 20% WC in the 75. After 4 days now, I’m so excited to see my few remaining SPS healing themselves and I couldn’t be happier.
I also want to give a big THANK YOU to Jjoos for babysitting two of my prized corals (Walt Disney, Bali Tri Color) and nursing them back to health! The WD is in the 40 and the Tri Color is in the 75. Both are doing great. So hopefully now I can sit back and watch them grow without all the frustrating headaches I’ve dealt with for 8 months. Building the 40g system was a great help in getting this figured out....