My 80g reef tank - Sweden

[Kenswe]

D-D solution H2o ocean salt.

I have never seen the tangs on the acans, and all of them are like this ;(
Nitrate at 5ppm and phosphat at 0.08

 

[benny z]

+1 to ritter. I'd suspect bad test kit or bad salt if the calcium has really dropped faster than the alkalinity - though I'm not sure if you have been dosing in equal amounts. Usually alk will be consumed faster than calc.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

I noticed that while I was running GFO that my acans took a terrible turn for the worst. You running GFO?

 

[Kenswe]

Gfo?

 

[Friendlybarman]

Have you checked your magnesium levels. I had the same issue a while back. If your mag is low it makes it nearly impossible to maintain do stable levels calcium and alkalinity.

 

[Kenswe]

My mg is way to low, only 1000ppm and I want up to 1350, I'm dosing only ca kh and a little more mg now, and I hope they will be fine soon!!

 

[Vidofner]

High KH can cause calcium to go down. I accidently overdosed KH so that I got a KH of 16 which made my ca go down to 230.

 

[Kenswe]

I'm just adding 60ml a day of alk, and right now about 200ml of Ca, and been adding some extra Mg too level up the value, so In this week I realy hope that I can see some changes

 

[Kenswe]

Feeding my scolys and today I see that one of them got 3 mouths, it had 2 when I bought it

 

[Kenswe]

Acans!

 

[J Rog]

Everything is looking great. I take it you got your MG level in a normal range?

 

[FLipp]

looks great! those scolys are beautiful.

 

[Kenswe]

Hi Rog, I keep my mag at 1400 straight now and it looks mutch better!

Thx flipp, I love my scolys, and want some more, but Here in europe it's hard to fina really great master.

 

[ifarmer]

the problems with those acans because of your pandora S LED. It's an expensive light but they are garbage light.
My LFS tried out the same Pandora S led with 4 T5 bulbs light on their showcase Elos 120 for about a year and after about a year his acans werelooking like that as well.

also, one of my friends made a switch to this same light for about 5-6 months and the light made his tank (corals) looks worse and he went back to T5.

this forum rules does not allow me to post a link to other forum but if you want to know more, pm me and I could try to find the links about what those that has problems with this light

 

[Kenswe]

Now I only use the smt leds and not the T5s, and it looks really good, so call the Pandora S garbage is not the way to handle it, use it right and everything is looking really good. My new ramp is on it's way for my new tank, 3x75w smt led, it's going to be good!

 

[jourdy]

One of the best acan/scoly gardens I have ever seen!
They are all very healthy!

 

[Kenswe]

Thx Jourdy, nice to Here thoose words from the man whit the greatest tank I know

I'm up for some zoas right now, and for the new tank I have about 170 different zoas, and more to come

Poor picture, better will come.

 

[jourdy]

Thx Jourdy, nice to Here thoose words from the man whit the greatest tank I know

I'm up for some zoas right now, and for the new tank I have about 170 different zoas, and more to come

Poor picture, better will come.

Haha Ken!
believe me when I say I would rather have your tank than what I have now. :smile:
Your acan collection alone is much more valuable and nicer than all my livestocks combined!

 

[Kenswe]

Haha Ken!
believe me when I say I would rather have your tank than what I have now. :smile:
Your acan collection alone is much more valuable and nicer than all my livestocks combined!

Haha, Thx Jourdy but I'll have to say that you are a big source of inspiration for me, your zoagarden is unbelievable, so I will try my best to get my own, if it's half as good as yours I'm going to be very satisfied

 

[Rausch]

GORGEOUS!! You have inspired me to create an Acan Island!! Beautiful work!!