Willylumplump
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I have had my current tank up for nearly 3 years, and have been unable to keep sps. My lps and softies grow extremely slow, however, have never lost or killed any. All my sps usually lose color after 2 weeks, won't grow, then tissue starts dying off after a couple months.
I know I had been over filtering the water in the past, and looking for help on how to fix my problem.
The main tank is a 180, plumbed to basement, 100gal Rubbermaid, half full of base rock, holds 40 gal water, 30gal tank, which was meant for fragging at some point, and 56 gal refugium, that houses a 8 in sand bed, and caulerpa.
I use a deltec tc2060 skimmer, 2 cups carbon refreshed every 2-3 weeks. I perform weekly water changes of 15 gallons with aquaforest reef salt.
I use a autofeeder the feeds pellets 3 times a day, and feed at least once, if not twice mysis/brine.
I purchased a seneye to adjust my lighting, which is 8 bulb t5, 2 actinics, 3 blue+, 3 coral +, hanging 6 inches off the water. par seems to run 200 to 400 bottom to top.
I had always tested for alk,cal,mag,phos,nitrate. all fine, have ph and orp meter are also fine.
I had never detected nitrate with red sea, and my phosphate usually reads 0, ocassional .09 on hanna.
A few months ago, I purchased 3 sps to test the waters again, and hooked up acropower to one of my dosing pumps to see if would help, and all I got was a little more bubble algae. The corals colors faded. Still alive, but grayed out.
I recently ran a triton test, hoping would turn up something that I was not testing for. I will post below in hopes someone has any ideas.
The only major deficiency was potassium, which I corrected. I went on vaction, when I returned, I could definitely tell some of the color had returned to the sps.
Could the potassium deficiency be the root cause of the mortality in my sps?
I could be starving the corals, however, I feel as if I am feeding the tank enough, and rather not have to clean more. I have kole, yellow, blue tang, rabbitfish, angel, wrasse, 2 anthias,2 clowns, 2 chromis, i think is stocked well enough, and have been in long enough, would kill anything else introduced anyhow. the tangs drop turds big enough vacuuming cant even get out. Should I remove some of my dsb in my refugium? skim even drier?
If you read through all of that, thank you, and would appreciate any suggestions.
again, softies, lps, fish, inverts are fine, clownfish even spawn every few weeks.
triton
test below:
I know I had been over filtering the water in the past, and looking for help on how to fix my problem.
The main tank is a 180, plumbed to basement, 100gal Rubbermaid, half full of base rock, holds 40 gal water, 30gal tank, which was meant for fragging at some point, and 56 gal refugium, that houses a 8 in sand bed, and caulerpa.
I use a deltec tc2060 skimmer, 2 cups carbon refreshed every 2-3 weeks. I perform weekly water changes of 15 gallons with aquaforest reef salt.
I use a autofeeder the feeds pellets 3 times a day, and feed at least once, if not twice mysis/brine.
I purchased a seneye to adjust my lighting, which is 8 bulb t5, 2 actinics, 3 blue+, 3 coral +, hanging 6 inches off the water. par seems to run 200 to 400 bottom to top.
I had always tested for alk,cal,mag,phos,nitrate. all fine, have ph and orp meter are also fine.
I had never detected nitrate with red sea, and my phosphate usually reads 0, ocassional .09 on hanna.
A few months ago, I purchased 3 sps to test the waters again, and hooked up acropower to one of my dosing pumps to see if would help, and all I got was a little more bubble algae. The corals colors faded. Still alive, but grayed out.
I recently ran a triton test, hoping would turn up something that I was not testing for. I will post below in hopes someone has any ideas.
The only major deficiency was potassium, which I corrected. I went on vaction, when I returned, I could definitely tell some of the color had returned to the sps.
Could the potassium deficiency be the root cause of the mortality in my sps?
I could be starving the corals, however, I feel as if I am feeding the tank enough, and rather not have to clean more. I have kole, yellow, blue tang, rabbitfish, angel, wrasse, 2 anthias,2 clowns, 2 chromis, i think is stocked well enough, and have been in long enough, would kill anything else introduced anyhow. the tangs drop turds big enough vacuuming cant even get out. Should I remove some of my dsb in my refugium? skim even drier?
If you read through all of that, thank you, and would appreciate any suggestions.
again, softies, lps, fish, inverts are fine, clownfish even spawn every few weeks.
triton
test below:
