BIG TROUBLE!! Need advice please.

[doch]

And the plot thickens!! Unbelievable. I got my BRS order in, and in it was a Mg test kit to replace the one that I ran out of. I go and test the display for Mg, and it shows up at a heart stopping 2500!!!!! WTF?!?! Fortunately, at the time, I had a fresh batch of water ready to be put into the system, so I tested that. IO salt... it came in at 2400. Holy crap. Did I get a bad kit... or am I challenged in the test kit area of this hobby? I've never had troubles before... I don't think at least.

Anyways, crash seems to be over. I'm still losing 2 loripes, and I've got a Rainbow Stylo that's not doing all too good, but everything else has stabilized, so that's good. Last test for kH came in at 10.5. Ca is a little low... depending on which kit I'm going to trust... we'll call it 350.

And here are a couple before and after pics. Unfortunately, this won't show the whole extent of the damage as I had added a bunch of stuff after the latest 'before' pic, but here goes anyways.

Before:



After:




Try to ignore the hair algae everywhere... it's getting better now that I'm running the right amount of GFO. I'm surprised... the after pics don't look that bad in comparison to the befores. I pulled a lot of stuff out of there... more in the frag tank which was almost full before this went down, but quite a few in the display as well.