Addvice for sps system

David osborne · Dec 4, 2019

joseserrano said:
You have more waste in your system than you think, per the pictures and the appearance of your sand, powerhead, and rock.

Water changes then may be ? Would this help ?

David osborne · Dec 4, 2019

Fiesty said:
Try some chemi-clean. I have used in a full mixed reef tank with great results and no negative effects.

Yes iv got some bug reluctant to use it because of the acros

Fiesty · Dec 4, 2019

David osborne said:
Yes iv got some bug reluctant to use it because of the acros

I used in this sytem and everything looked better afterwards. Tons of sps, lps, clams, inverts, etc.

I just followed the instructions. Was very easy. Like u, I was skeptical and scared to use for awhile but now that have tried it would definitely use again when needed.

David osborne · Dec 4, 2019

What about the radions ??
Will running the red and green leds be the problem here ??

David osborne · Dec 4, 2019

I'm running my radions @ 75% with whites red and greens at 45% with all blues at 100% at 5 hours
Then all whites and reds and greens down to 12% for the rest of the photo period

Hemmdog · Dec 4, 2019

David osborne said:
What about the radions ??
Will running the red and green leds be the problem here ??

Just run ab+

I think flow is your issue here though unless there’s something I’m missing.

David osborne · Dec 4, 2019

Fiesty said:
I used in this sytem and everything looked better afterwards. Tons of sps, lps, clams, inverts, etc.

I just followed the instructions. Was very easy. Like u, I was skeptical and scared to use for awhile but now that have tried it would definitely use again when needed.

Your tank looks sharp and clean , I'm needing a clean tank now asap lol

David osborne · Dec 4, 2019

Hemmdog said:
Just run ab+

I think flow is your issue here though unless there’s something I’m missing.

I think your right to but on the AB+ would you still run the reds and greens ? Iv heard the leds are great for growing algae

BiGGiePauls33 · Dec 4, 2019

Clean the pumps, get a conch for your sand bed. How old is the tank, rockwork etc? What are all your parameters?

ajhudson15 · Dec 4, 2019

my sandbed looked like that. bought a diamond goby and within a day the whole sand bed is white and has been white every since.

BiGGiePauls33 · Dec 4, 2019

Reds and greens are too high. Like @Hemmdog said run the AB+ setting. I run a modified version that World Wide Corals uses. PM me your email address and I'll send it to you.

David osborne · Dec 4, 2019

paja3 said:
Clean the pumps, get a conch for your sand bed. How old is the tank, rockwork etc? What are all your parameters?

Hi paja3
The tank is 1 year running now with a new recape about 6 mouths ago due to stripping out the system coz of the dreaded flat worm , which was a hard lesson I suffed last April,
Alk is at 9dkh
Cal is at 435 ish
Mag is 1400
Potassium is 440 or under
Iv not icp in ages to be honest,
Could I have silicate or just a dirty system?

BiGGiePauls33 · Dec 4, 2019

Here's a couple of screenshots of what my lights look like:

BiGGiePauls33 · Dec 4, 2019

David osborne said:
Hi paja3
The tank is 1 year running now with a new recape about 6 mouths ago due to stripping out the system coz of the dreaded flat worm , which was a hard lesson I suffed last April,
Alk is at 9dkh
Cal is at 435 ish
Mag is 1400
Potassium is 440 or under
Iv not icp in ages to be honest,
Could I have silicate or just a dirty system?

What's po4? I think I read your using GFO, if so why?

BiGGiePauls33 · Dec 4, 2019

I try to keep my No3 about 5-10 ppm and po4 .06-1.2 range. Some people say Po4 .05-.08 but I noticed with my tank the corals like it a little higher. Sometimes when I feed reef roids it'll spike too .50, lol

ajhudson15 · Dec 4, 2019

im gonna agree with flow. however, you said you built it yourself. you built the tank to? any chance you used to wrong silicone and its just had a slow impact on it?

BiGGiePauls33 · Dec 4, 2019

Where's the clean up crew. I do wear glasses but don't see any snails or crabs in those pics.

David osborne · Dec 4, 2019

I did have low po4 and was just feeding like crazy for months as I was battling to keep it higher than 0.02 , but after reef roids and throwing loads of fish in the system over time !! The hanna ultra low phosphorus checker at last was reading any thing from 20ppb to at its worst 80 ppb

I never see any harm to the sps so I left it and just started regular water changes, but then the algae just want go so I add gfo to suck up any silicate or excess po4 , I'm only running a tiny amount
150 ml at the moment

David osborne · Dec 4, 2019

ajhudson15 said:
im gonna agree with flow. however, you said you built it yourself. you built the tank to? any chance you used to wrong silicone and its just had a slow impact on it?

Hi there yes I built the aquarium to and I used black aquarium silicon and used the injection method , I wish I could nail the problem hear , before I clean the system again

BiGGiePauls33 · Dec 4, 2019

I used to use GFO and this is my opinion only. I feel it strips phosphates too quickly. I switched out too Phosphate RX and usually drop a couple drops into my skimmer cup to reduce. You don't want to reduce more than .5 per 24 hours. I'll add 3 drops wait 24 hours, then add 3 more and so on. Then again, I'm running a small tank. What's you salinity at? Good Luck.