Bleaching tips

Broly_PT · 07/15/2017, 04:56 PM

Hello everyone

I need your help, about two weeks before my acroporas begin to bleach at the tips, which then die and start to get algae.

I'll always try to cut so as not to spread.

I follow the method triton.

Ca 450 '
Mg 1350
Kh 7.6
Po4 000
No3 2

Here it is very hot and the temperature does not drop below 27c or 80 f

And about a month ago due to a dosing problem my kh dropped to 5.6, but slowly went up to 7.3.

Some help?

Bpb · 07/15/2017, 08:18 PM

Try and get your po4 up a little. May help. Every time I've had burned tips it's always been a parameter problem and lots and lots of water changes helps...but...triton method, no water changes. I don't know what else to say

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mcgyvr · 07/16/2017, 05:10 AM

An "alk/kH" instability issue will certainly cause problems like you have described..
Sorry..

Broly_PT · 07/17/2017, 03:14 AM

Hello,

Yes i would aspect the problems appear almost at the same time, and not whit several weeks of distance.

The temperature dont help, that is a fact.

regards

ktownhero · 07/17/2017, 06:43 AM

Do some water changes and see what happens, regardless of what the "triton" method says. It's not worth losing coral over an ideology. There's no world in which water changes are a bad thing.

jda · 07/17/2017, 09:00 AM

These are almost certainly from the lower nutrient that Triton wants you to have. Dead tips from alk swing nearly always happen when the alk swing is happening.

Healthy corals can handle up to 84-85... stressed corals cannot.

Go back to a typical Berlin method for a while and see if everything stabilizes. Skim, feed and change water. Unless you have a VERY stable tank and want to solve a VERY specific problem, then Triton might not be the best for you... everything walks a fine line and while it might be Ok for a while, eventually one domino falls and more fall with it.

Broly_PT · 07/21/2017, 02:31 AM

thanks for all the help

07/15/2017, 04:56 PM	#1
Broly_PT Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 102	Bleaching tips Hello everyone I need your help, about two weeks before my acroporas begin to bleach at the tips, which then die and start to get algae. I'll always try to cut so as not to spread. I follow the method triton. Ca 450 ' Mg 1350 Kh 7.6 Po4 000 No3 2 Here it is very hot and the temperature does not drop below 27c or 80 f And about a month ago due to a dosing problem my kh dropped to 5.6, but slowly went up to 7.3. Some help?

07/16/2017, 05:10 AM	#3
mcgyvr Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 20,050	An "alk/kH" instability issue will certainly cause problems like you have described.. Sorry.. __________________ Who me?

07/15/2017, 08:18 PM	#2
Bpb Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 3,148	Try and get your po4 up a little. May help. Every time I've had burned tips it's always been a parameter problem and lots and lots of water changes helps...but...triton method, no water changes. I don't know what else to say Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

07/17/2017, 03:14 AM	#4
Broly_PT Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 102	Hello, Yes i would aspect the problems appear almost at the same time, and not whit several weeks of distance. The temperature dont help, that is a fact. regards

07/17/2017, 06:43 AM	#5
ktownhero Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 1,426	Do some water changes and see what happens, regardless of what the "triton" method says. It's not worth losing coral over an ideology. There's no world in which water changes are a bad thing.

07/17/2017, 09:00 AM	#6
jda Dogmatic Dinosaur Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Boulder, CO Posts: 6,256	These are almost certainly from the lower nutrient that Triton wants you to have. Dead tips from alk swing nearly always happen when the alk swing is happening. Healthy corals can handle up to 84-85... stressed corals cannot. Go back to a typical Berlin method for a while and see if everything stabilizes. Skim, feed and change water. Unless you have a VERY stable tank and want to solve a VERY specific problem, then Triton might not be the best for you... everything walks a fine line and while it might be Ok for a while, eventually one domino falls and more fall with it.

07/21/2017, 02:31 AM	#7
Broly_PT Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 102	thanks for all the help