Thoughts and Overall Advice

[EnemyAnenome]

Hey all I'm just open to criticism, thoughts, and advice about my tank as I have been experiencing some failures with my corals. Been trying to spot feed most of them as well in hopes of reviving some of them.

I think mostly the main problem in my tank has to be vermetid snails, which I've been dealing with for awhile now. I gave up stressing about it after crushing so many shells for months on end. (Still crushing and gluing shells to this day) Water changes have been consistent every weekend (with coral pro salt), along with testing for parameters that I have done with my local LFS (from Salifert test kits).

Parameters:
SG - 1.025
Temp - 78.2 F
Alk - 10 dkh
Ca - 390
Phos - 0
Nitrate - 0

Setup: 15g (display tank) + 10g (refugium)

Tank Inhabitants: (3 astrea snails, 4 hermits, 2 clowns, 1 fighting conch, 1 watchman goby)

In the video below you'll see how all 5 of my corals are doing. (3 zoas, 1 trumpet, 1 GSP)

 

[shwareefer]

Could be high Alk combined with high lighting and no nutrients. Try lowering your lights and maybe start dosing some nitrate and phosphate. Flow looks good as far as I can tell. You have lots of coraline and the star polyps look happy. Did you use a PAR meter?

 

[00W]

Could be high Alk combined with high lighting and no nutrients. Try lowering your lights and maybe start dosing some nitrate and phosphate. Flow looks good as far as I can tell. You have lots of coraline and the star polyps look happy. Did you use a PAR meter?

^^^This.
Well said.

 

[EnemyAnenome]

Could be high Alk combined with high lighting and no nutrients. Try lowering your lights and maybe start dosing some nitrate and phosphate. Flow looks good as far as I can tell. You have lots of coraline and the star polyps look happy. Did you use a PAR meter?

I haven't used a par meter but I will try lowering the lights and bringing up the nutrients. Maybe find someway to bring down the alk a bit too. Thank you for your input!

 

[shwareefer]

What light are you using?

 

[EnemyAnenome]

What light are you using?

Vipar spectra 165w

https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwiph7ei-u2BAxWNNdQBHRSYAmYYABANGgJvYQ&ae=2&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqYe3ovrtgQMVjTXUAR0UmAJmEAQYASABEgI_3_D_BwE&sig=AOD64_1FZ6bLsukCI8tWXUpKyD4nTItvfQ&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwjrg62i-u2BAxWSlGoFHUNvANEQ5bgDKAB6BAgDEAk&adurl=

 

[shwareefer]

Vipar spectra 165w

https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwiph7ei-u2BAxWNNdQBHRSYAmYYABANGgJvYQ&ae=2&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqYe3ovrtgQMVjTXUAR0UmAJmEAQYASABEgI_3_D_BwE&sig=AOD64_1FZ6bLsukCI8tWXUpKyD4nTItvfQ&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwjrg62i-u2BAxWSlGoFHUNvANEQ5bgDKAB6BAgDEAk&adurl=

Yep, could definitely overpower a 15 gallon.

 

[EnemyAnenome]

Yep, could definitely overpower a 15 gallon.

You think turning down the intensity would still help then? or are my lights just too strong. I have another weaker light but I don't think it would work very good with corals. It's a light that came with the tank when I bought it (pretty cheap)

 

[shwareefer]

You think turning down the intensity would still help then?

Yes. If you search black boxes on here, you should be able to find what people set them at. Remember to take tank size/depth into consideration.