Low nutrients, brown/dying SPS

[ScottB]

1-18 yr old clown
2-orchrestriped cardinals
1-banghai cardinal
1-starry blenny
1-6 line wrasse
1-orchid dottyback
1-bristletooth tang
1- fox face
1-stop light cardinal
2- dragon face pipefish
2-blue accessors (new)
1-Royal gramma basslet (new)
3-chalk bass (new)
I also have 8-10 turbo snails and 25 or more hermit crabs and a 15 year old short spined urchin to keep the coralline in check

Holy smokes. I have half that in 260G. LFS opens at 10am tomorrow. No wonder I have to dose nitrates & phosphates. Again I digress.

 

[SeaDweller]

I wouldn't turn it off. It's essential for pH and water oxygenation. I can take the cup out, it's not a bad idea.

you CAN skim dry, you know?

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

you CAN skim dry, you know?

How many fish do you have in your tank @SeaDweller?

 

[SeaDweller]

How many fish do you have in your tank @SeaDweller?

35: 22 anthias
2 clowns
1 large leopard wrasse
1 sand sifting goby
9 tangs
1 potters angel

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Btw
For those that don’t know
@SeaDweller has the most insane acro growth

 

[UCF Alum]

Prove it

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

35: 22 anthias
2 clowns
1 large leopard wrasse
1 sand sifting goby
9 tangs
1 potters angel

Tangs are such wonderful fish for sps
They just eat and poop all day long

 

[bar|none]

How big is @SeaDweller s tank? I looked and could not find reference.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

It’s the size of my first apartment
His tank and @bubbaque should be measured in sq ft, not gallons

 

[SeaDweller]

Prove it

you shall receive...

 

[SeaDweller]

How big is @SeaDweller s tank? I looked and could not find reference.

its a standard 8/2/2 240; some things grow quicker and better than others though. @Chaswood79 is trying to divert the attention off of him!

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

its a standard 8/2/2 240; some things grow quicker and better than others though. @Chaswood79 is trying to divert the attention off of him!

I don’t like attention
But my corals do

 

[living_tribunal]

How old is the tank? I'd be careful riding your PO4 that close to 0. If it does actually hit zero for any period of time, your corals will let you know and you might also trigger Dinos.

You can reduce the photo period in your fuge to let nutrients rise a bit and see if it helps.

Just defeated an outbreak of dinos from non-measurable nutrients. It's the worst thing I've experienced in reefing. Always keep phosphates minimum .03 and up, try and keep nitrates 3ppm and up.

I'd rather deal with bubble algae, aptasia, and bryopsis at the same time rather than fight dino again.

 

[living_tribunal]

Browning means stressed and or starved from a lack or light, fish poop or both. Now your lighting sounds more than perfect so you need more fish poop. How many fish and how much are you feeding? My 50 gallon sps tank gets about 3 cubes of frozen a cap zooplankton and 5 mls of bio enhance per day. You’re probably over stripping your water. Do you have a skimmer?

I've been finding it difficult to keep things stable in my frag qt tank (obviously no fish). I think I'm going to try adding bio-enhance. I've been dosing phytoplankton and pods as well as nitrate and phosphates which is helping but I feel like it needs more.

Thanks for the idea!

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

I've been finding it difficult to keep things stable in my frag qt tank (obviously no fish). I think I'm going to try adding bio-enhance. I've been dosing phytoplankton and pods as well as nitrate and phosphates which is helping but I feel like it needs more.

Thanks for the idea!

I have fish in the frag and I don’t dose the bio enhance in there. A pair of ocellaris, pair of banghais, a pair of chromis, a royal gamma basslet, a Aptasia eating file fish which hasn’t eaten any Aptasia yet, a couple turbo snails and 5 hermits. Fish, snail and crab poop only in the frag tank

 

[living_tribunal]

@Chaswood79 it seems like this product isn't sold in the us for some reason. Do you recommend any alternatives?

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

@Chaswood79 it seems like this product isn't sold in the us for some reason. Do you recommend any alternatives?

Quantum USA Bio-Enhance

Builds Tissue & Improves Vitality. Quantum™ Bio-Enhance™ is designed to provide protein, amino acids, fatty acids, carbohydrates & vitamins for enhancing both tissue growth and vitality.

www.aquariumspecialty.com

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Quantum USA Bio-Enhance

Builds Tissue & Improves Vitality. Quantum™ Bio-Enhance™ is designed to provide protein, amino acids, fatty acids, carbohydrates & vitamins for enhancing both tissue growth and vitality.

www.aquariumspecialty.com

Smells like Fritos with bean dip

 

[living_tribunal]

Went with another amino acid/vitamin sup. But I think it will help, I can’t keep fish in my frag tank and I don’t want to keep too many inverts following the Dino outbreak.

 

[primoleo]

You guys digressed a bit...
However, I changed the following:
1. Reduced photoperiod in fuge
2. Skimming dry (almost nothing)
3. Activated carbon out
4. I made solutions of NaNO3 and KPO4. Started dosing them
5. Feeding heavily + increasing aminos

Will see what happens.