Sps trouble

[Kaleb W Bellamy]

I got a few SPS in my tank now and two of them seem to be having problems. Here are some pics to show what's going on.
My levels are as followed
Alk 9.0
Cal 460
Mag 1440
Salinity is at 1.026

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[Flippers4pups]

What's your N03 and P04?

 

[nezw0001]

how long has your tank been set up? What sort of lights are you running? Where did you source your SPSs?

 

[Kaleb W Bellamy]

No 3 is at 5.0 pom and po4 is at 0 my tank has been up and running for about 8 months but the rock are from my other tank that was up for 2 years.

 

[Kaleb W Bellamy]

I'm running SB reef lights I got my SPS from a good friend on here.

 

[vetteguy53081]

No3 will be an issue as is high alk. Water flow should be moderate , not blasting and do feed with a food such as Reef roids.

 

[ZoWhat]

Acros are beautiful works of the Devil himself. Theyre evil, dying for little to no reasons

 

[JPergamo]

PO4 of 0 is not necessarily a good thing. Are you running GFO

 

[Kaleb W Bellamy]

Yes I have a GFO running and carbon

 

[nezw0001]

Lots of people have different opinions on NO3 and PO4. I personally like my NO3 between 15-20 and my PO4 under 1. I grow SPS like crazy with deep, vibrant colors. IMO running ULNS is asking for Dinos. What else do you have in the tank? is everything else doing well? Any algae? Do you have macro algae in a refuge?

 

[nezw0001]

SPS are particularly fickle and can take a while to be happy with their lot in life and start to grow

 

[Kaleb W Bellamy]

I have alot of torchs, hammers , zoas and frogspawns with some mushrooms here and there. I put a new rock in about a month ago and got a alge blum. The some of the zoas are closed up. I have macro algae in the refuge