Steve's Led Red Sea Max 250

[ronin_hungary]

Its not hard, but something is off...

Sadly, really no way to tell for sure based on description, so maybe few pics?

I doubt that this is strictly light related, probably combination of things.....

Thank you for replying. I am very sad and frustrated at the same time. No results after so much money. I have attached a few pics. The carpet looking thing was in the middle of the rock work not on the frag rack. The frag rack shrunk 10% after a week at the very bottom of the tank. The ricordias were about 3x the size as of now. I honestly really want to save the ones on the rack (if all would be great). Pavona is not even 2 weeks old. I do not understand, i checked the parameters they are all in limits. Calcium recently went up a little. I fed the corals yellow sno, I give ocean magik to the copepods this should be pretty close to sea biology on paper. I have also had polyfilter to check anything like copper and stuff and nothing showed up.

 

[Koh23]

What is your parameters? Flow?

 

[ronin_hungary]

What is your parameters? Flow?

API test kits
ph is 8.0 or maybe a little more, but not 8.2
Ammonia 0.25 or less
Nitrite 0
Nitrate under 20 close to 10 ppm
Phosphate 0.25 ppm or less
dkh 12
calcium 500-520 (was 480-500 few days ago)

salinity 1.024 or 1.025 (based on Milwaukee, which I am disappointed at, since it could measure off by .002 +/- so you never know)

As for flow Reefwave 45 at 50% with random setting

More and more I am suspecting the water. I buy it at LFS pre-made, since I have been told it is "instant glory" since it is measured, tested and ready to go, so I do not have to worry much about parameters with my limited knowledge.

I will do a filter cleaning and water change this week around 10%ish just to try to lower the calcium and increase the ph. Maybe that will help.

 

[ronin_hungary]

Well, ph is now over 8.2, but dkh is 12 and calcium is over 550 (I think 600 if the scale is linear).
I opened the lid, which increased the ph over 3 days. Corals are still not better. Salinity is stable 1.025
I do not understand this, I thought by having ph going up, calcium will go down along with dkh.

 

[PNWfishbuddy]

Any update?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Any updates on your tank?