I wish there was a service like this. I am having such a hard time trying to keep corals, and second guessing coral placement. I am too scared to glue anything to my rockwork because who knows if the coral is happy or not?
Long story short: My tank is 6 months old, I have had very little success keeping any coral at all.
Current stats:
Tank size 160g RSR 750XXL
Nitrate: between 2 and 5
Phosphate: don't know, haven't test it but I don't have too much algae so I don't think it's a prob?
Alk: 8.4
Salinity: 1.025
Calcium: 430
Magnesium: 1400
Ph: 8
Flow: 2 tunze nanostream 6095 on opposite sides of tank, one slowing ramps up to 100% over the course of 45 min while the other ramps down to 0, then it switches. Also have one tunze 6095 on the back wall pointed up for surface agitation.
Return: Varios 8 on 4th setting with dual return line random flow generator
I have two blastos on sand, one has had one polyp since I got it 4 months ago, zero growth. Used to have two polyps but one disintigrated. Other blasto seems ok, recent addition.
Had a hammer coral, died after a week or two I think from adjusting alk too fast.
Galaxea coral I added never saw a single polyp, assuming it's dead because it's completely white.
Frogspawn: used to be ok but peppermint shrimp picked at it and now its basically skeleton.
Echinopora Chalice: supposed to be blue but is completely brown
Trumpet: one head and one head disintegrating, isn't this coral supposed to be easy?! Currently middle of tank, I have moved it everywhere and have seen 0 growth.
The ONLY coral I have had any growth on is my duncan, it has done well on sand in low light and low flow, sprouted 4 new heads so far.
Wondering if I should give up on corals and focus on fish for now? They seem way easier to please, that or I need a reef tank consultant to stop by and show me what I'm doing wrong?
Long story short: My tank is 6 months old, I have had very little success keeping any coral at all.
Current stats:
Tank size 160g RSR 750XXL
Nitrate: between 2 and 5
Phosphate: don't know, haven't test it but I don't have too much algae so I don't think it's a prob?
Alk: 8.4
Salinity: 1.025
Calcium: 430
Magnesium: 1400
Ph: 8
Flow: 2 tunze nanostream 6095 on opposite sides of tank, one slowing ramps up to 100% over the course of 45 min while the other ramps down to 0, then it switches. Also have one tunze 6095 on the back wall pointed up for surface agitation.
Return: Varios 8 on 4th setting with dual return line random flow generator
I have two blastos on sand, one has had one polyp since I got it 4 months ago, zero growth. Used to have two polyps but one disintigrated. Other blasto seems ok, recent addition.
Had a hammer coral, died after a week or two I think from adjusting alk too fast.
Galaxea coral I added never saw a single polyp, assuming it's dead because it's completely white.
Frogspawn: used to be ok but peppermint shrimp picked at it and now its basically skeleton.
Echinopora Chalice: supposed to be blue but is completely brown
Trumpet: one head and one head disintegrating, isn't this coral supposed to be easy?! Currently middle of tank, I have moved it everywhere and have seen 0 growth.
The ONLY coral I have had any growth on is my duncan, it has done well on sand in low light and low flow, sprouted 4 new heads so far.
Wondering if I should give up on corals and focus on fish for now? They seem way easier to please, that or I need a reef tank consultant to stop by and show me what I'm doing wrong?
From reading thru this thread the first thing to do is start pairing back on all the filtration you are doing man it is not required and your tank is telling you so. I always start really slow way too much is happening. I have been keeping Reefs since 1980 learned to watch the reaction of my tank and change coarse if things are not going in the right direction. The problem is good things happen slow in a Reef tank. So it will tank 6 months to see a change to the positive many times and most people want over night reactions to the aquarium.
