I’m sure nitrate can factor into it (but I’m not sure).
Do you feel colors browned out?
Brown? No. Darker and richer
I think it stems from the Redfield ratio..I believe dont bash me please!
Honestly I don't care I'd you believe me I am telling you stopping carbon dosing killed some of my favorite corals. Including a hammer I grew from one head to 3. That was the only thing that changed in my routine. Now granted I should have realized I should have backed off slowly, but instead I thought no I'll listen to this guy and power through. Ended up so bad I started dosing again. Honestly it has been months to get back on track, basically since that last post. I haven't added any corals and have been recovering from the advice you gave me.
Well I believe you think it was from that. But I don’t believe it was that. I’ve been answering sps threads and pm’s for years now and you’re the first person to say my advice wrecked havoc on their system. But fair enough. Good luck to you.
You don't believe that the instability stopping carbon dosing plus my inexperience to be able to course correct fast enough caused my problems. Man you really are in denial.
Your tank is addicted to the carbon dosing to stop you have to slowly back off. If you don't you will stress your system.
That sux sorry that happened, allot of lessons learned i bet
Definitely slow back dont cold turkey same with starting it
Thank you! And yes.
To be fair he just said to stop dosing not how. I should have done more research and thought it through.
Fair enough, i always try to explain any advice like I’m talking to someone who is brand new to the hobby, and I’m sure some people find it obnoxious, but given the stakes, I don’t want to be misunderstood or leave info out.
I am not in denial. I don’t know why your hammer died. Or your other corals, that you didn’t posts about until now btw, bc I don’t keep hammers or really any other lps, so I don’t attempt to give advice on them. This is the sps forum and I’ll tell anyone the same advice with your tank circumstances. Carbon dosing makes sps harder to keep, especially frags in young tanks. I don’t care what anyone says (most of them keep montis and stylos and then give advice like they’re experts). Scroll through this section and see how many death threads there are that involve carbon dosing, gfo, vibrant, flucozanole etc. Then take note of how many there are from ppl that don’t use those methods and see what is what.
You know I've been reefing for a year, and you are the first true ******* I've meet. I came here asking for help. And you've done nothing but make me feel bad. I might not know anywhere near as much as you. But if there is one thing I've learned is there is more than one way to run a reef tank. Plenty of successful reefers use all of those methods/products and make it work. Your way is not the only way. Get off your high horse.
Sometimes you just gotta do your own thing, this social media world we live in ruins personal goals...making this hobby into an Instagram or business can take all the enjoyment away..ive had tanks b4 MySpace and it never swayed my hobby this is a personal journey, you can't be mad because you didn't get the advice you wanted...don't give up and try to start very small and slow and anything can be achieved, give it another try im sure you can do it, don't let others, or the misunderstanding of others throw you off from what you enjoy. Been there its not the way to go..
I'm not doing that. I'm leaving reef 2 reef, not reefing!
