Help sps brown algae?

Balz3352 · Nov 9, 2016

luke33 said:
Dry rock always causes maturity probs imo, so sps will not thrive for well over a year.

With the mature marine blocks I would question the prior tank and I've heard of metal leaching. Maybe a triton test would help. Other thing I would check is your sg. Have you checked your refractometer with a sg solution? This gets overlooked often.

Sg was first thing I checked 1.026.

I have read and followed the long discussion on this forum and although there is some evidence of al leaching there are countless thriving sps tanks with these blocks. And we do not know what form of al is there and if it truly effects corals. Might effect leathers. But yes i have weighed this.

It is just weird that these corals go from encrusting to unexplained melting.

Fourstars · Nov 10, 2016

I'm convinced that a tank that is young and still having issues with algae/ diatoms should not have SPS in it. I ran into the same issues you are having. All my parameters were good with no large swings in Alk.

Balz3352 · Nov 10, 2016

The crazy thing is that besides the algae that is on the sps. I have one small ( about the size of a quarter) of algae on the rock then whatever grows on the glass I have to clean about once a week.

I really don't have an algae issue

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 10, 2016

not enough food. Imo. well below standard recommends and the verge of ulns. Young tank , yea maybe that too, they are unstable and dry has more probs than cured for obvious reasons.

Balz3352 · Nov 10, 2016

Should I turn my skimmer off?

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 10, 2016

Balz3352 said:
Should I turn my skimmer off?

or skip water changes. I like the skimmer for air.
skipping a wc or doing one doesn't effect Po just No btw. or, feed meaty foods. imo

Balz3352 · Nov 10, 2016

saltyfilmfolks said:
or skip water changes. I like the skimmer for air.
skipping a wc or doing one doesn't effect Po just No btw. or, feed meaty foods. imo

I feed frozen maybe just feed more sure the fish won't mind. But ill hold off an w/c for a while.

Fourstars · Nov 10, 2016

Do you have any fish in this system? I fragged mine and saved them by upping NO and PO. Al least I think that helped. I still suspect diatoms. I'm not adding anything for a good six months.