Mexican turbos closing up

[KyleC]

Hey, hoping to get some insight. For the guts of a year my tank was doing fine. Recently (last 4 weeks) added a lot of sps and a few more fish. Since then (and around the time I started using carbon - I have 3 leather corals), my gsp has lost all it's green colour, same as my brown star polyps. All other corals (sps, lps, zoas) doing great. Snails are suffering now too. Well, always struggled to keep trochus alive, but my 3 large mexican turbos were fine but now they are closing up.... no idea what's wrong. All parameters are stable (currently working on increasing magnesium).

Calcium- 460ppm
Mag - 1200
Phosphate - ~0.03
Nitrate - 10ppm
Salinity- 1 024/5
Temp - 25.5°C
Ammonia - 0ppm
Alk - 12.8dkh

 

[KyleC]

I started using carbon (red sea) as my polyps/zoas wouldn't open... now they're thriving.

 

[KyleC]

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[Rick's Reviews]

Hey, hoping to get some insight. For the guts of a year my tank was doing fine. Recently (last 4 weeks) added a lot of sps and a few more fish. Since then (and around the time I started using carbon - I have 3 leather corals), my gsp has lost all it's green colour, same as my brown star polyps. All other corals (sps, lps, zoas) doing great. Snails are suffering now too. Well, always struggled to keep trochus alive, but my 3 large mexican turbos were fine but now they are closing up.... no idea what's wrong. All parameters are stable (currently working on increasing magnesium).

Calcium- 460ppm
Mag - 1200
Phosphate - ~0.03
Nitrate - 10ppm
Salinity- 1 024/5
Temp - 25.5°C
Ammonia - 0ppm
Alk - 12.8dkh

Without sounding prejudice against you but maybe starvation

Hey, hoping to get some insight. For the guts of a year my tank was doing fine. Recently (last 4 weeks) added a lot of sps and a few more fish. Since then (and around the time I started using carbon - I have 3 leather corals), my gsp has lost all it's green colour, same as my brown star polyps. All other corals (sps, lps, zoas) doing great. Snails are suffering now too. Well, always struggled to keep trochus alive, but my 3 large mexican turbos were fine but now they are closing up.... no idea what's wrong. All parameters are stable (currently working on increasing magnesium).

Calcium- 460ppm
Mag - 1200
Phosphate - ~0.03
Nitrate - 10ppm
Salinity- 1 024/5
Temp - 25.5°C
Ammonia - 0ppm
Alk - 12.8dkh

Without sounding prejudice or the other.
maybe starvation... Could your aquarium be to clean? A great clean aquriam is great and pleasing to our eye but sometimes you need abit of algae (aquarium growth) to provide food

algae on the back wall will provide enough if you let it grow.
Just my opinion

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Without sounding prejudice against you but maybe starvation

Without sounding prejudice or the other.
maybe starvation... Could your aquarium be to clean? A great clean aquriam is great and pleasing to our eye but sometimes you need abit of algae (aquarium growth) to provide food

algae on the back wall will provide enough if you let it grow.
Just my opinion

Monsters lol

 

[KyleC]

Without sounding prejudice against you but maybe starvation

Without sounding prejudice or the other.
maybe starvation... Could your aquarium be to clean? A great clean aquriam is great and pleasing to our eye but sometimes you need abit of algae (aquarium growth) to provide food

algae on the back wall will provide enough if you let it grow.
Just my opinion

My aquarium is full of gha atm... I'm in the process of reducing it atm.

 

[KyleC]

My aquarium is full of gha atm... I'm in the process of reducing it atm.

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Ahhh, turn your whites down for a start, everything is growing upwards Ike your grass in the garden/ towards the light.

Loads of information on reef2reef... Loads... I mean loads.
Meaning please use it, use magnifying glass top right and search Gha, it will be the best decision you have made in regards to turn your aquarium around.

Good luck

 

[KyleC]

Ahhh, turn your whites down for a start, everything is growing upwards Ike your grass in the garden/ towards the light.

Loads of information on reef2reef... Loads... I mean loads.
Meaning please use it, use magnifying glass top right and search Gha, it will be the best decision you have made in regards to turn your aquarium around.

Good luck

I only put the whites on to show you the gha, but thanks for the advice