Montipora

[Devan Patel]

Hello, I just bought this monti last night sort of as a tester coral for my new tank to turn into a spa dominant after I had a big crash of my tank. I use instant ocean reef

My crash was the tank being neglected thinking it can run itself, dosing liquid phosphate having no idea what it meant, vibrant, then turned it gha and cyano, which then was high nutrients. But I have finally got ahold of it(sort of), and was wondering if someone can help me.

Before I put the monti in, I tested the water and they were really high for me not dosing anything for months because there was just fish in the tank, and the lights were turned off for months. Then I turned them on a low setting about two weeks ago.

Parameters Yesterday: 8/8/23: Waterbox 50.3 AIO.
Phosphate:.25api test kit
Nitrate:40 ppm api test kit
Nitrite:0 api test kit
Calcium:500 Red Sea test kit
Alk:12.3 or 12.6 Red Sea test kit

So as you can see these are pretty high,. I just did a water change two days ago and let the water mix through before I wanted to add corals in. So I added the monti in,. But I’m not sure what lighting it takes for sps.

I just search up random settings and put it too tjat but I feel that I may be burning it.

I will attach pics of my tank before and after the crash aswel ast the monti.

I am running two Nero 3 at max speed on random flow. And two jebeao at max on else. So In total 6 thousand gph I believe. And my random lighting schedule aswell. Also as you can see in the other pics I still do have algae on my rocks everywhere but I do not have a clean up crew still waiting on the lfs to get one

 

[blaxsun]

Montis generally like to be placed a bit higher (at least insofar as I've found), in the 200-250 PAR range. Red Sea black bucket salt does run quite a bit higher alkalinity, but a typical (desirable) range is within 7-11dKH.

 

[Devan Patel]

Montis generally like to be placed a bit higher (at least insofar as I've found), in the 200-250 PAR range. Red Sea black bucket salt does run quite a bit higher alkalinity, but a typical (desirable) range is within 7-11dKH.

Sorry, by putting Red Sea I meant the test kit haha. I use instant ocean reef crystals for my salt. I’m trying to either get hold of a parmeter right now to map my tank out for later on. But I did attach my lighting schedule to the thread if you would want to have a look at that

 

[blaxsun]

Sorry, by putting Red Sea I meant the test kit haha. I use instant ocean reef crystals for my salt. I’m trying to either get hold of a parmeter right now to map my tank out for later on. But I did attach my lighting schedule to the thread if you would want to have a look at that

Ah, no worries. Yes, ideally you want to maintain an alkalinity between 7-11dKH. Without a PAR reading I couldn't say for certain whether you have too much, too little or just the amount of light.