Stuffs not growing

[Perthegallon]

Hello guys so I got lots of corals that look great and I feed them weekly about every two to three times a week with a mix of stuff and add on red sea ab+. I also have some fish in the tank and my tanks about a year old I have all my primaters in check and costant alk at 9 calc at 400 and mag at 1350 I never have to dos because nothing grows Phosphate is healthy at 0.5. EVerything is healthy and great but Im never getting any splits from my zoas to my torchs or even my acors. I even rented a par meter to make sure everything was in check what am I doing wrong is there a secret to this im not getting?

 

[sfin52]

Hello guys so I got lots of corals that look great and I feed them weekly about every two to three times a week with a mix of stuff and add on red sea ab+. I also have some fish in the tank and my tanks about a year old I have all my primaters in check and costant alk at 9 calc at 400 and mag at 1350 I never have to dos because nothing grows Phosphate is healthy at 0.5. EVerything is healthy and great but Im never getting any splits from my zoas to my torchs or even my acors. I even rented a par meter to make sure everything was in check what am I doing wrong is there a secret to this im not getting?

Whats you lights par and whats your nitrates. How old is your system. Do you have any coraline?

 

[CCauthers]

Phos at .5 is much too high for most corals btw, especially those acros

 

[ZoWhat]

Your tank is probably too sterile.... you should research drip dosing tetraselmis phytoplankton. Seriously. Until your tank water turns a light green. It will outcompete nuisance algae and your corals will love it

R2R search "phytoplankton"

 

[Perthegallon]

Whats you lights par and whats your nitrates. How old is your system. Do you have any coraline?

So based upon the coral I give it ranging from 50-150 with my torch’s and zoas around 100 and for my acros 75-50

 

[Perthegallon]

Your tank is probably too sterile.... you should research drip dosing tetraselmis phytoplankton. Seriously. Until your tank water turns a light green. It will outcompete nuisance algae and your corals will love it

R2R search "phytoplankton"

My water is already green lol and algae isn’t growing bad but sorta in my fuge

 

[Perthegallon]

Phos at .5 is much too high for most corals btw, especially those acros

0.5 is my high I’m more constant with 0.2 and 0.3 but I also never heard about that I thought they liked dirty tanks

 

[Perthegallon]

Your tank is probably too sterile.... you should research drip dosing tetraselmis phytoplankton. Seriously. Until your tank water turns a light green. It will outcompete nuisance algae and your corals will love it

R2R search "phytoplankton"

I really don’t want to dos that stuff again it caused so much alage

 

[ZoWhat]

I really don’t want to dos that stuff again it caused so much alage

Then you were using the wrong phytoplankton. the ONLY one to use is tetraselmis phytoplankton that actually outcompetes nuisance algae and consumes NO3 and PO4.... but you have an opinion based on a bad/wrong experience. shame...

 

[Rick.45cal]

So based upon the coral I give it ranging from 50-150 with my torch’s and zoas around 100 and for my acros 75-50

That’s incredibly low PAR in my experience, what are you using for lighting?

 

[Perthegallon]

That’s incredibly low PAR in my experience, what are you using for lighting?

Kessil AP700

 

[Perthegallon]

Then you were using the wrong phytoplankton. the ONLY one to use is tetraselmis phytoplankton that actually outcompetes nuisance algae and consumes NO3 and PO4.... but you have an opinion based on a bad/wrong experience. shame...

I was using the alage barn plankton?

 

[ARAJEA]

Calc seems a lil low also

 

[Perthegallon]

Then you were using the wrong phytoplankton. the ONLY one to use is tetraselmis phytoplankton that actually outcompetes nuisance algae and consumes NO3 and PO4.... but you have an opinion based on a bad/wrong experience. shame...

Souls I try this stuff

 

[CCauthers]

I was using the alage barn plankton?

This is not pure tetraselmis. Also, acros do not love dirty tanks at all. They also need at least 250-300 par minimum

 

[Rick.45cal]

Kessil AP700

If it were me, I would gradually bump the intensity up every week until I was more in the 350 PAR range.

 

[Perthegallon]

If it were me, I would gradually bump the intensity up every week until I was more in the 350 PAR range.

Really I went higher before and it bleached a few so I’m skeptical to do that

 

[Perthegallon]

This is not pure tetraselmis. Also, acros do not love dirty tanks at all. They also need at least 250-300 par minimum

What would be pure tetraselmis

 

[sfin52]

That’s incredibly low PAR in my experience, what are you using for lighting?

Your acros need higher par for sure.

 

[Perthegallon]

Your acros need higher par for sure.

Maybe 100 pars to 150?