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    SPS Dying Systematically, HELP.

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    Again my opinion. I'm a firm believer in keeping things as simple as possible. I think you have way to many things going on. Coral needs food to survive. Which includes po4 and no3 imo. Not just reef roids etc. Your running phosban, gfo etc which is typically used if your having an issue with something in your tank like high po4 as an example. I think you should very slowly lower your alk to say 8 if your going to run a uln system and maybe cut back a little on using so many different things unless you genuinely have a reason to be using all of it. 

    The water your using from the lfs, is it fresh made by them? Maybe increase to two water changes a month. 

    SPS Dying Systematically, HELP.

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    7 months old

    Reef builder

    Reef advantage

    Acro power

    Phosban

    Gfo

    Carbon

    Reef roid

    Phyto feast

    Oyster feast

    One 20% percent water change a month with water from a lfs?

    Do you see where this is going?

    Just my opinion, this is insane. Entirely to much going on here to even begin to start the process of elimination. I definitely agree with the above statement if you have 0 po4 and no3 you could certainly be burning the tips.

    Hand irritation?

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    2 hours ago, davelin315 said:

    The winter season could be a contributing factor as DFR said above.  Saltwater causes contact dermatitis for me at times (oddly enough, only synthetic saltwater, not NSW so it must be something in the formulas that does it as it has happened with 2 Little Fishies salt and also Instant Ocean which are pretty much the only two I've ever used with any sort of consistency).  It is far worse in the winter than in the summer months for me and I typically can expect my skin to crack and bleed if I'm messing around in tanks with any regularity.  Dermatitis can manifest itself in many different ways on different people so the red spots to me would suggest a slight allergic reaction or contact dermatitis (which I think is the same thing?).

     

    Very good info. Sounds exactly like what I've been dealing with for almost a year now. If I can manage to leave my arms out of the tank for a month it pretty much clears up but if I'm in the tank one time it starts the whole viscous cycle again. Right now is probably the worst I've ever had it. 

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