orionstrident
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I have a 80 gallon shallow tank with A bunch of SPS frags and zoa's. Everything was going great and the SPS are were growing with good color and polyp extension until I had green hair algea. To fight this I ran Phosguard which bottomed out my phosphates and killed the green hair algae but then Diatoms came. They were the variety that vanished at night so I got a 25w pentair and stopped water changes and that got rid of those quickly. Now I am on to what I assume to be a different type of Diatom. I do not have a microscope to look and confirm.
The issue is while this new diatom showed up my SPS have started to get white tips and one JF b33 RTN'd over night the other day. The whole time fighting all the other diatoms everything was fine and growing. The Monticaps have algea growing on them but still have polyp extension and color its odd, like its growing on a living monticap which shouldnt happen. The acro tips are whats killing and confusing me it looks like alk burn but my alk is stable and I lowered my orphek atlantik to only 65% but it shouldnt matter as everything was doing well before this algea at the higher intensity.
All LPS and Zoas are doing fine minus a little irritation due to the algea
Parameters:
Temp: 78
Salinity: 1.026
Alkalinity: 8.6 (hanna)
Calcium: 380 (hanna)
Phosphates: 0.05ppm (hanna)
Nitrate: 16ppm (Red Sea)
Magnesium:1320 (Red Sea
Tank:
80 Shallow
trigger Platinum Sump with the roller fleece
Reef Octopus Essence-130
Pentair 25w UV - Running through the return so all water goes through it
Media reactor- Running with Rox carbon for a long time (The tank with this algea starts to smell when it needs to be replaced)
Any advice would be helpful I think the algea is causing the SPS to die but i am not positive I am more worried about saving the SPS.
The issue is while this new diatom showed up my SPS have started to get white tips and one JF b33 RTN'd over night the other day. The whole time fighting all the other diatoms everything was fine and growing. The Monticaps have algea growing on them but still have polyp extension and color its odd, like its growing on a living monticap which shouldnt happen. The acro tips are whats killing and confusing me it looks like alk burn but my alk is stable and I lowered my orphek atlantik to only 65% but it shouldnt matter as everything was doing well before this algea at the higher intensity.
All LPS and Zoas are doing fine minus a little irritation due to the algea
Parameters:
Temp: 78
Salinity: 1.026
Alkalinity: 8.6 (hanna)
Calcium: 380 (hanna)
Phosphates: 0.05ppm (hanna)
Nitrate: 16ppm (Red Sea)
Magnesium:1320 (Red Sea
Tank:
80 Shallow
trigger Platinum Sump with the roller fleece
Reef Octopus Essence-130
Pentair 25w UV - Running through the return so all water goes through it
Media reactor- Running with Rox carbon for a long time (The tank with this algea starts to smell when it needs to be replaced)
Any advice would be helpful I think the algea is causing the SPS to die but i am not positive I am more worried about saving the SPS.
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