Input on sps would be helpful
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You can always look in on my journal, as I have some similar issues. T5 set it and forget it, I have been a T5 guy since 2006, and still refuse any other lighting, have tried, yet still go back. I believe dead rock and nutrients is your issue.
I think this is your problem, I don't think it is your light, nutrients, or anything else. When I upgraded from my nuvo 20 to my red sea 350, I used like 90% dead rock and had cycled the system for 4 months before I transferred my sps. I ended up losing like $10k worth of sps. My tank is now about 2 years old and I do water changes weekly, haven't lost sps since ( I added sps like 4months ago) . There is something about dead rock that sps hate. You'll just have to wait and try again in a few months
Beautiful tank, but the OP originally had 2 ai primes on an 80 gallon tank. That’s barely enough light for lps. That’s why they’re going back to the 6 bulb ati. Lighting was the original problem.Here are some of my sps
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I agree w/ Chaswood. If it's really that low light SPS will slowly but surely die.I made the same mistake having 2 Kessil 160s over my biocube. That was my first set of LEDs, and I didn't want to burn them. When I finally got a par meter in, I had like 100 par 3/4 of the way up lol.... i LOVE the look up LEDs, but they are so much harder to dial in. They are not plug and play like t5s
Lastly, I have to disagree with the nitrates. There's some things that science hasn't figured out in our tanks yet. Conventional wisdom says "just enough nitrates." Granted, I have a LOT of expoert, fuge, skimmer, vibrant, filter floss and WC....BUT, I dose my nitrates from 10-25 and I prefer the 20s... Acros, LOVE it and the colors are so much better, it's not close. Prior to that I had consisetnly 1-2 ppm nitrates and no dosing. Conventional wisdom also says SPS probably don't eat phytoplankton, but I dose that and they're much hairier when I do...go figure
Lastly, I have to disagree with the nitrates. There's some things that science hasn't figured out in our tanks yet. Conventional wisdom says "just enough nitrates." Granted, I have a LOT of expoert, fuge, skimmer, vibrant, filter floss and WC....BUT, I dose my nitrates from 10-25 and I prefer the 20s... Acros, LOVE it and the colors are so much better, it's not close. Prior to that I had consisetnly 1-2 ppm nitrates and no dosing. Conventional wisdom also says SPS probably don't eat phytoplankton, but I dose that and they're much hairier when I do...go figure
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I’m thinking this ati fixture will do wonders and I’m going to run 4 blue plus and maybe a coral plus and a purple plus am not 100 percent sure yet what combo gonna do some research
The BEST light testing performance so far? What makes T5' the reef tank light Gold Standard?
This week on BRStv Investigates, Randy takes a look at the popular ATI Sunpower T5 lights. Not only can you expect to get a full rundown of the best mounting and PAR performance but also 16 different bulb combinations to help you choose the best spectrum for your T5 powered reef tank.
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I watched that video the other day I’m stoked to put this fixture on tomorrow, off work till Monday after today and this is what I’ll be doing! HaThe BEST light testing performance so far? What makes T5' the reef tank light Gold Standard?
This week on BRStv Investigates, Randy takes a look at the popular ATI Sunpower T5 lights. Not only can you expect to get a full rundown of the best mounting and PAR performance but also 16 different bulb combinations to help you choose the best spectrum for your T5 powered reef tank.
