Help me ID what im doing wrong

[ChaseBurke]

Can someone tag the reefsquad? I need a clear path forward to sucess here.

 

[Zero1091]

Another vote for low nutrient.
I had a similar issue happen to me when I began experiencing more growth and more coralline algae.
My phosphates were kept low @ .01ppm, large sump with macro algae
Params were in check and trace elements dosed weekly (I follow tritons recommended weekly dose amounts), triton icp test confirmed my levels were solid aswell. I still had bleaching/ dying sps(Montis and Acros), lps were taking a hit but only less polyp extension.
I began dosing amino acid supplements such as Acro power daily with KZ coral vitalizer, the problem was reversed within one week. Montis/Acros literally coming back from the dead within a months time afterwards.

 

[ChaseBurke]

Another vote for low nutrient.
I began dosing amino acid supplements such as Acro power daily with KZ coral vitalizer, the problem was reversed within one week. Montis/Acros literally coming back from the dead within a months time afterwards.

Good to hear i just threw some Acropower on a doser this week. Did you follow their recommended dose? Right now i am dosing 4 ml per day for 90 gallons.

 

[Zero1091]

Good to hear i just threw some Acropower on a doser this week. Did you follow their recommended dose? Right now i am dosing 4 ml per day for 90 gallons.

It sounds to me like the corals are starving dude.
Ive been using it a while now and know of many who swear by it and have only seen improvements using it (Aminos in general). Ive done the minimum and max dose and each seem to benefit the tank.

Although when I was attempting to correct the similar problem I was running an 80g system and did 15ml of Acro power daily.
(5ml per 25gallons as a max dose daily)
I purposely did the max daily dose due to wanting to see if itll make any changes and it did within 1 week and after two months everything was back to normal.
Also last note, even though I did a max dose I never had an issue with Cyano and on top of that I also used the KZ Vitalizer daily which was another concentrated coral food. 3 drops daily with the Acro power combo and my system is thriving. Nor did I have a Nitrate or phosphate spike.

Theres a bigger science to it Im sure with using aminos but as far as my experience goes with keeping a low nutrient system aminos with another food source keeps everything happy. Here are some pieces that were having problems.
You'd never guess which pieces were having issues.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

Hey chase, how u doing tonight besides the obvious. You have a nice tank, like the rock work. Hang in there, hurdles are meant to be jumped over and this one can be jumped no problem.

Everyone gave good advice already
Few thoughts came to mind, tank looks like it’s been up a while, sorry if I missed it but how long been up? I would guess at least 8 months or longer
How are you dosing. Manual or doser and what is your schedule.
Do you dip the frags to rule out any bugs
Where do you keep your temp
Go thru the Guys in the house, any of them prone to nipping
Water changes, do you try to match temp and salinity, where is your salinity run at

My opinion, and I am no master by any means so just my opinion, it is either lighting or dosing. I think your numbers are not bad enough to cause the issue unless your alk is jumping all over the place.

Like you mentioned the #reefsquad should be able to look at the corals and maybe give a better idea of what’s is causing the trouble

 

[ChaseBurke]

Hey chase, how u doing tonight besides the obvious. You have a nice tank, like the rock work. Hang in there, hurdles are meant to be jumped over and this one can be jumped no problem.

Everyone gave good advice already
Few thoughts came to mind, tank looks like it’s been up a while, sorry if I missed it but how long been up? I would guess at least 8 months or longer
How are you dosing. Manual or doser and what is your schedule.
Do you dip the frags to rule out any bugs
Where do you keep your temp
Go thru the Guys in the house, any of them prone to nipping
Water changes, do you try to match temp and salinity, where is your salinity run at

My opinion, and I am no master by any means so just my opinion, it is either lighting or dosing. I think your numbers are not bad enough to cause the issue unless your alk is jumping all over the place.

Like you mentioned the #reefsquad should be able to look at the corals and maybe give a better idea of what’s is causing the trouble

Hey thanks for the reply. As far as tank info goes....

Tank was set up in the beginning of January.
Dosing Triton 1,2,3A,3B. 11.2 ML of each solution broken out into 4 doses a day. 16 doses a day for all 4 evenly spaced out.
Dipping every frag using coral Rx
Stock list is
-2 clowns
-4 damsels
-2 bangai cardinals
-royal gramma
-Yellow tang,
-flame angel
-sailfin tang
I think thats it... water changes i match Sg, alk, Ca, and mg tank water or as close as possible. Sg@ 1.026, alk 8.0, ca 440, mg 1400.

 

[ChaseBurke]

So I think I might have found my problem. Came home from work early today and was watching my flame angel go in a big loop nipping at most of my corals. He would go from acro to Monti to zoas and back to the start. Anyone thing this could be the problem?

 

[GThompson]

My

So I think I might have found my problem. Came home from work early today and was watching my flame angel go in a big loop nipping at most of my corals. He would go from acro to Monti to zoas and back to the start. Anyone thing this could be the problem?

My
yellow angel was doing the same with my corals he’s now looking for a new home

 

[ChaseBurke]

Now the question is how do I catch him