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[reefndude]

How are you acclimating before introduction to tank? Is the reef fusion for calcium and alkalinity? If so I don't think you need to dose.
Watch out for your lfs ro/di. I used to buy from lfs, got my hands on a tds meter and it read higher than my tap water

 

[cwb_reeftank]

I place he bags in my sump for 20 mins then I drip acclimate them. and yes its for the calcium and alkalinity. are tds meter expensive?

 

[reefndude]

I believe tds meters start off around 10 bucks on amazon.

 

[cwb_reeftank]

do you think AcroPower would help with it?

 

[reefndude]

I don't think it would help. Corals are dying pretty quick. Are you staying on top of your sqinging6
? Know a guy that would go 2 or 3 days between top offs.
Couldn't keep anything alive until he started listening. Now that he stays on top of it things have turned around.

His tank is only 20 gallons so his parameters we're always swinging

 

[cwb_reeftank]

I don't have hardly any swings in anything I did have big swings in my temps but that was back in may but I fixed that. but I put new corals in after that and that's what I'm talking about now

 

[reefndude]

It's really hard to tell. If water is good and fairly stable I don't see why your sps is dying out like that.
Anything rusting in your tank?

 

[cwb_reeftank]

not that I'm aware of

 

[acolotto]

Some other ? that might help someone help you out.

How often do you do water changes?
What are all your parameters right now? (Nitrates, Phosphates, Calc, Alk, Mag)
Type of lighting (fixture brand, bulbs, and height from water)
How are fish doing?
You said a Koralia evo 1500 and 1150 for flow correct? (IME flow is a big factor in keeping sps. They need a ton of it to be happy, and not just blowing at them, they need chaotic random flow)
What do you dose if anything?
Do you have an ATO? If not how often do you top off your evap water.

The key with SPS is stability, I mean absolutely no fluctuations. Also earlier you said your phosphates where at .5? That is way to high and if true no way nitrates are at 0. Most successful sps keepers id say keep there nitrates at 0 and phosphates at .02 to .04.

 

[cwb_reeftank]

I try to do a water change every Saturday but if I don't get to it on Saturday I do it Sunday. right now I cant do my parameter because I'm not home but I will do them tomorrow. I have a odyssea light fixture that has four t5 bulbs and 2 metal halides but I don't use the halides because they are to much for my tank. I have them 10 inches above my tank now. fish are fine if you don't count my clownfish who jumped out about a week ago. I have them off center from each other so ones set further back and one near the front. I dose a two part and I dose vodka. I have the hydor smart one and I meant .05thats what it was last time I checked.

 

[cwb_reeftank]

I take out 15 gallons for my water change.

 

[reefndude]

Everything sounds like you should be able to at least keep sps alive at least. Are you running a skimmer? Something in the tank killing them?

 

[cwb_reeftank]

I have an eshopps psk-75 skimmer and from what I can see no. all my LPS is doing great and my green monti is good but it has grown in almost a year and my rainbow monti is doing good but it hasn't grown at all yet

 

[acolotto]

Everything you have stated so far seems that you should be golden. Any pests or anything? Are you still only running blue bulbs in the T5, you said that earlier correct? If so this could be your issue. Only other thing i can think of

 

[cwb_reeftank]

I did have flat worms on my frogspawn but I got rid of those and my frogspawn is perfect now other than that no and yes I still have the blue bulbs. its a little hard for me to get stuff sometimes seeing that I'm still college haha

 

[acolotto]

I did have flat worms on my frogspawn but I got rid of those and my frogspawn is perfect now other than that no and yes I still have the blue bulbs. its a little hard for me to get stuff sometimes seeing that I'm still college haha

Been there man, it makes the hobby more fun once you start having more money for it! You more then likely dont need to replace all the bulbs just take two out and throw in a more white spectrum. I have not used t5 in years so dont know what bulbs to get, but im sure someone will be able to get you in the right direction, bulb wise

 

[cwb_reeftank]

I have been looking at the ati bulbs I've heard some good things about them

 

[reefndude]

Maybe take the skimmer offline for a bit to see what happens

 

[cwb_reeftank]

what would that do?

 

[reefndude]

I use ati bulbs and am very pleased with them