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Hello
I have been sitting on my triton test results ever since I got them about a month ago not really knowing which action to take or what really needed to be corrected. I had posted on reef2reef before in regards to my lack of luck getting corals to thrive so I figured I'd get some good help from a triton water analysis. Even though triton gives you suggestions on what actions to take, I still fill a little lost. I have posted my water analysis below and I was hoping to get some feedback from some of my fellow reefers. I've only had easy to keep corals like zoas,favia,euphyllias,monti caps,birdsnest,some leather corals and some encrusting leptos and cyphestrias. I do have a small frag of pink goniopora that I've had for maybe close to a year that has not grown. None of these corals really took off in my system or thrived, some have lasted in my tank and are there currently in my system but not much growth or encrusting of any kind, with the exception of some no name palys,toadstool,kenya tree and mushrooms. I do have reef energy, Red Sea colors a,b,c,d but I am not using these products at the moment. I also feed my colas but not consistently because they are mainly small frags. I sometimes feed oyster feast, reef roids and goniopower. My lighting system is 3 radion gen pro 4 xr 15 running on sps ab plus schedule. I run a bubble magus curve 7 and brs media reactor with BRS high capacity GFO which I just recently started using because of a mild hair algae outbreak, I was running BRS Rox 8 carbon but now I use it when needed. For Nitrate control I am using nopox on a jaebo doser @ 6 ml a day dosed @ 6 am. My system is about a year and a half old. I do have a lot of fish in my opinion. Mallenarus wrasse, flame hawk, 6 chromis,2 clowns, small yellow tang, fire fish, 2 bangaii cardinals and a small cuc.
I also wanted to know if my system is considered a "ultra low or low nutrient system" and if so, should I be dosing anything additional. My tank is 75 gallons with an 18 gallon sump.
Parameters based off of my own test kits are:
no3 1 salifert
salinity 1.026 aquaforest refractometer
ph 7.8ish api
p04 0.02 hanna low range phosphorus checker
alk 9.8 Red Sea
thank you for your help and for taking the time to read this post.
Happy 4th!!!
I have been sitting on my triton test results ever since I got them about a month ago not really knowing which action to take or what really needed to be corrected. I had posted on reef2reef before in regards to my lack of luck getting corals to thrive so I figured I'd get some good help from a triton water analysis. Even though triton gives you suggestions on what actions to take, I still fill a little lost. I have posted my water analysis below and I was hoping to get some feedback from some of my fellow reefers. I've only had easy to keep corals like zoas,favia,euphyllias,monti caps,birdsnest,some leather corals and some encrusting leptos and cyphestrias. I do have a small frag of pink goniopora that I've had for maybe close to a year that has not grown. None of these corals really took off in my system or thrived, some have lasted in my tank and are there currently in my system but not much growth or encrusting of any kind, with the exception of some no name palys,toadstool,kenya tree and mushrooms. I do have reef energy, Red Sea colors a,b,c,d but I am not using these products at the moment. I also feed my colas but not consistently because they are mainly small frags. I sometimes feed oyster feast, reef roids and goniopower. My lighting system is 3 radion gen pro 4 xr 15 running on sps ab plus schedule. I run a bubble magus curve 7 and brs media reactor with BRS high capacity GFO which I just recently started using because of a mild hair algae outbreak, I was running BRS Rox 8 carbon but now I use it when needed. For Nitrate control I am using nopox on a jaebo doser @ 6 ml a day dosed @ 6 am. My system is about a year and a half old. I do have a lot of fish in my opinion. Mallenarus wrasse, flame hawk, 6 chromis,2 clowns, small yellow tang, fire fish, 2 bangaii cardinals and a small cuc.
I also wanted to know if my system is considered a "ultra low or low nutrient system" and if so, should I be dosing anything additional. My tank is 75 gallons with an 18 gallon sump.
Parameters based off of my own test kits are:
no3 1 salifert
salinity 1.026 aquaforest refractometer
ph 7.8ish api
p04 0.02 hanna low range phosphorus checker
alk 9.8 Red Sea
thank you for your help and for taking the time to read this post.
Happy 4th!!!
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