vol4life999
New Member
Hello! Just joined the forum today. I have been following many of the posts and learning a lot the past few months. I also follow R2R on Facebook.
I have a 55g tank with both fish and coral. Fish include Naso Tang, Scopas Tang, 2 small blue yellow tail damsels, 3 small ocellaris clowns, and scooter blenny. Coral include toadstool leather, frogspawn, hammer coral, trumpet coral, small tree leather, and recently received and not to healthy looking torch coral. Have a number of snail, hermit crabs, 1 emarald crab, brittle star, sandsifter star, nudibranch, and 5 clams for clean-up. Also have a peppermint shrimp, cleaner shrimp (love this guy - will sit on my hand when I work in the tank), and a fire shrimp.
I run a wet/dry sump, Aquamaxx co1 skimmer, twin 10k metal halides, several stripos of actinic LED's for transition lighting as well as moonlight, poseidon external return, Aquamaxx biopellet reactor, 8w UV sterilizer, chiller, RO/DI with auto-top off that also produces water for water changes, and Tunze and Hydor powerheads for flow.
Will put some pics up at a later time. I have been having some issues with the hammer coral and tree leather not looking well. This has been going on for about 2 weeks. I have done water changes using RO/DI water, checked all levels (pH, alk, salinity, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, cal, mag, etc.) Temp maintainted at 78 degrees and main lighting comes on at 4:30PM and goes off at 11:00PM. The actinnics come on about 45 minutes prior and go off about 2 hours after. Can't seem to find the issue. Have also tried moving them in the tank and adjusting flow as well. Frogspawn, trumpet, and toadstool look good. Fish seem healthy and happy.
I have a 55g tank with both fish and coral. Fish include Naso Tang, Scopas Tang, 2 small blue yellow tail damsels, 3 small ocellaris clowns, and scooter blenny. Coral include toadstool leather, frogspawn, hammer coral, trumpet coral, small tree leather, and recently received and not to healthy looking torch coral. Have a number of snail, hermit crabs, 1 emarald crab, brittle star, sandsifter star, nudibranch, and 5 clams for clean-up. Also have a peppermint shrimp, cleaner shrimp (love this guy - will sit on my hand when I work in the tank), and a fire shrimp.
I run a wet/dry sump, Aquamaxx co1 skimmer, twin 10k metal halides, several stripos of actinic LED's for transition lighting as well as moonlight, poseidon external return, Aquamaxx biopellet reactor, 8w UV sterilizer, chiller, RO/DI with auto-top off that also produces water for water changes, and Tunze and Hydor powerheads for flow.
Will put some pics up at a later time. I have been having some issues with the hammer coral and tree leather not looking well. This has been going on for about 2 weeks. I have done water changes using RO/DI water, checked all levels (pH, alk, salinity, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, cal, mag, etc.) Temp maintainted at 78 degrees and main lighting comes on at 4:30PM and goes off at 11:00PM. The actinnics come on about 45 minutes prior and go off about 2 hours after. Can't seem to find the issue. Have also tried moving them in the tank and adjusting flow as well. Frogspawn, trumpet, and toadstool look good. Fish seem healthy and happy.
