Help me fix my tank!

Adam Schindler

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Hello everyone. A couple weeks ago I posted some shots of my tank along with the parameters. After discussing test kits and the horrible accuracy api tends to offer I decided to upgrade to a full salifert kit for now. So as of today here is where I’m at. The green caulustrea is basically toast. Most heads have melted off. The purple caulustrea still looks rough, it’s alive but not by much. Hasn’t blown up or anything since I received it. Red chalice is melting away. All my anemones are fine and have been through everything, move included. At this point whatever has happened I think the just acclimated to. Ricordia I just got not too long ago. Seems happy to me. Have some green zoa too that don’t seem super stoked but they are still showing. Anyway here’s where my parameters are at as of today
Temp-75.2
Ph-8.24
Mag-1400
Phosphate-.1
Nitrate-10
Kh-8.6
Cal-420
Salinity-1.027
I attached some pics to possibly help. Not the best but they are from my iPhone. Thanks for any help/advice

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Help fellow reefer how long has your tank been set up have these been In there the hole time have you switched products or added any thing new ?
 
So the tank was given to me roughly 3.5 years ago. It was established and I knew nothing about fish tanks. I was shown the basics and explained how to keep up with everything. Never had any sps or lps prior to this. Everything seemed to thrive until the move. I had a heater lock on and killed some coral right before. So when I had made the move and got it running all I had was my rbt anemones a pair of maroon clowns, tang, goby, lawnmower blenny, coral banded shrimp and a standard cuc. I lost about 60-70% of the established water. I run ro water and tried to create a similar parameter before refilling what I lost but I’m pretty sure the tank started to kinda cycle from it. Whole lot of cyano and gha. So I battled that and got it kinda under control. The gha is still being a pain here and there and some rocks have a thick almost carpet like green algae that barely comes off with a tooth brush. But no I never really changed any products I’ve used pretty much the same stuff since I acquired the tank.
 

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