Euphillia corals

larky · Feb 12, 2017

Do your temps fluctuate? I find most bleaching is more of a light and temperature isnt compared to parameters.

Harris4g63 · Feb 12, 2017

My temps are very consistent range between 77.8 - 78.2 my leds lighting is 10"above my tank and the whites are at 40%and blues 60 %I going to take my bio pellet reactor offline for a few days and see if I can get nitrates to come up this tank has never registered any nitrates since I added refugium and bio pellets maybe my nitrate export worked too well from what I understand now LPS and softies need some nitrates to help with coloration

tutmatt3 · Mar 28, 2017

Love to hear any updates on their color, & what you think may have worked!

Harris4g63 · Mar 30, 2017

Thanks for the reply, yes I am still battling this issue however, I think I might be on to something. I've read that I can use a product called Spectracide stump remover and mix up a solution of potassium nitrate to bring up my nitrates. Yesterday was my first dose and I got my nitrates to read 0.20 so I'm going to continue dosing until I can get it to read 2.0 ppm consistently and see if that can color up the corals. Before trying this method I've already removed my bio pellet reactor reduced my lighting from 10to 8 hrs and increased feeding and none of that made any difference. I believe since all 6 of my fish are no bigger than 1 1/2" nitrates are probably being consumed by the bacteria in the live rock (70lbs) that's just a theory though. Once I get my nitrates up I think I will take out half of my chaetomorpha it's the size of a volleyball right now and that might be reducing the nitrates to a level that is too low. I will definitely be updating this thread daily.

RamsReef · Mar 30, 2017

You can also use seachem products but they are much more money.

Harris4g63 · Mar 30, 2017

That's a good point this Spectracide was only $7.98 and its a fine powder and I only used about 2 tablespoons for a solution of about 60oz so this bottle will last a very long time

Harris4g63 · Mar 31, 2017

While dosing the potassium nitrate, the tank seems to be undoing what I'm adding or reestablishing equilibrium. Yesterday I was able to get the tank to 1ppm of nitrate now this morning when I checked it it's back to 0.2ppm. I'm wondering if I should just do larger doses right now I'm adding 20ml which according to the the calculations based off my solution concentration should raise it by 0.96ppm, just not sure if I can just raise to the target of 2ppm in one shot then hopefully that will allow the tank to settle at a new equilibrium point.

RamsReef · Mar 31, 2017

Harris4g63 said:
While dosing the potassium nitrate, the tank seems to be undoing what I'm adding or reestablishing equilibrium. Yesterday I was able to get the tank to 1ppm of nitrate now this morning when I checked it it's back to 0.2ppm. I'm wondering if I should just do larger doses right now I'm adding 20ml which according to the the calculations based off my solution concentration should raise it by 0.96ppm, just not sure if I can just raise to the target of 2ppm in one shot then hopefully that will allow the tank to settle at a new equilibrium point.

Mix ot into 1 L rodi and drip it using airline over 1-2 days.

Whats happening is:
1. Your corals soaking up what they needed and slowly equalling out.
2. If you have bio pellets, bacteria, etc they used it up with carbon and phosphate.

Slowly drip it in over a day / days. Make sure you measure at the same time each day.

Harris4g63 · Apr 1, 2017

Ramasule said:
Mix ot into 1 L rodi and drip it using airline over 1-2 days.

Whats happening is:
1. Your corals soaking up what they needed and slowly equalling out.
2. If you have bio pellets, bacteria, etc they used it up with carbon and phosphate.

Slowly drip it in over a day / days. Make sure you measure at the same time each day.

ok thanks that's what I will do. Do you have any recommendations on how fast to drip it like 1 drip per second for example

RamsReef · Apr 1, 2017

Harris4g63 said:
ok thanks that's what I will do. Do you have any recommendations on how fast to drip it like 1 drip per second for example

One drop is roughly 0.05 mL
So 36 hours × 60 minutes × 60 seconds = 129600 seconds
1 l = 1000 mL / 0.05 = 20000 drops
20000 Drops / 129600 seconds = 0.15 Drop / Sec or 1 drop every 6.66 seconds

Adjust as you want.

I give poor advice btw.

@Randy Holmes-Farley

Harris4g63 · Apr 1, 2017

OK that sounds good I like dimensional analysis, reminds me of chemistry lol thanks for the information. I'm wondering if at such a slow drip rate will the dripper plug up all I have right now is just some plastic drippers I guess I can start looking for dosing pumps

RamsReef · Apr 1, 2017

Harris4g63 said:
OK that sounds good I like dimensional analysis, reminds me of chemistry lol thanks for the information. I'm wondering if at such a slow drip rate will the dripper plug up all I have right now is just some plastic drippers I guess I can start looking for dosing pumps

Nah lol.

Just tie airline in 2 knots.

Dzmbkilla · Sep 23, 2017

Following since I have the same issue. Could just feeding a lot more achieve the same goal?

mcarroll · Sep 23, 2017

Harris4g63 · Sep 24, 2017

Dzmbkilla said:
Following since I have the same issue. Could just feeding a lot more achieve the same goal?

I'm not sure if that will solve the problem I've tried that and I saw no significant changes. I'm currently trying to dose neophos to get my phosphate levels to 0.05 and potassium nitrate to get my nitrates to about 5-10. The nitrate part is fairly easy but keeping the phosphate up is a battle every day come back to check it it's back to zero, so I have not gone a full month with elevated phosphate yet.