Staghelm
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Hi there I have been doing the hobby for about a year now, did research and such before investing into everything and from what I gathered starting in a bigger tank is better because its less forgiving of problems and easier to control the nutrient import/export. Now when I first bought everything I knew cheaply made stuff wasnt going to get the results I wanted yet dishing out tons of money on kessils or radions off the get go didnt seem logical either as alot of others have made due with other lighting. So I started with a fluval 48inch 3.0 LED fixture granted I knew it wasnt going to perform as good as other things but I should see atleast some growth. I also invested into making a sump except instead of an overflow I use a cascade cannister filter to provide further filtration before it even hits the sump, yet all thats in the cannister is just a layer of filter pad, then bio balls, then another layer of filter pad then to the sump. When it first hits the sump the first thing it comes in contact with is a 300micron filter sock then into the skimmer chamber then the macroalgae area then to the return area. In the return area I have a seperate pump going into a brs 2 part reactor first stage is charcoal (also BRS) and then bio media then back into the return chamber, its all on low flow so contact time is hightened. Inside the main 75 gallon tank I have a 3k icecap gyre on the right side of the tank up high creating aggitation on the surface before hitting the other side of the glass and cascading down the bottom up again to the gyre, on top of that I have 2 jebao rw8's positioned mid level on the back of the tank, one on the left and one on the right both pointing towards the front glass on wave mode, the gyre is on 40% pulse as well. I have got more than enough life rock, more than enough bacteria as my nitrates and pho are actually 0 which I was trying to control in the begining and now that they are both 0 out I can begin maybe dosing nitrate and pho so that I am in control of the levels at all times instead of the system so that I can raise or lower them as needed. Coraline algae is growing good yet my corals are always acting weird, sometimes open sometimes not but they never fully open except the acan I have. I know you need patience and determination to make it in this hobby but after a year of buying stuff and doing research along the way and expirementing with lights and flow, etc I am at the point where I should have seen atleast some kind of growth and I have not, they are all still basically the same size I bought them a year ago, yet they wont die they just survive somehow. I cant figure it out as all my parameters are good(probably heard that a thousand times) but seriously they are, so if its the lights or flow thats the problem some help would be appreciated. I am sure I have the right tools to create the perfect flow yet I struggle with it, and the lights I cant really say because I have tried a few and without having a par meter and the corals not responding to lighter or darker or higher or lower intesity doesnt give me a ballpark on where to go next. So I am turning to you guys the experts to help me. If you want pics of the 75 gallon I can show those to but even though that tank is still running and being dosed by an auto doser to keep things stable I moved everything to my nano tank for the time being to figure out whats going on. Here is pics of the nano tank and the parameters of the nano tank.
ph 8.2-8.3
Alk 9-11
Cal 400-500
Mag 1400
Salinity 1.026
Temp 77
water change 10% every week
Filter Carbon and macro and filter pad
Light HIPARGERO LED Aquarium Light 30w, has only blue, violet,white all dimmable and can customize how much blue/violet or white I want. I usually keep the light at 100% blue/violet day and night, and during the day I keep them 100% blue/violet with whites on 30%
Flow right now in the 10g leathers and the dead gonio are receiving medium/high flow, the acan and zoa medium/low flow and same with the galaxea and mushroom and hammer.
Until I get these corals to grow and recoup I wont be putting them back in the main 75g, once they are stable and growing I will put them back into the main display which has the same values as the nano tank. Its just after a year now I should have seen some growth atleast. Dont know what I am doing wrong.
-Richard
ph 8.2-8.3
Alk 9-11
Cal 400-500
Mag 1400
Salinity 1.026
Temp 77
water change 10% every week
Filter Carbon and macro and filter pad
Light HIPARGERO LED Aquarium Light 30w, has only blue, violet,white all dimmable and can customize how much blue/violet or white I want. I usually keep the light at 100% blue/violet day and night, and during the day I keep them 100% blue/violet with whites on 30%
Flow right now in the 10g leathers and the dead gonio are receiving medium/high flow, the acan and zoa medium/low flow and same with the galaxea and mushroom and hammer.
Until I get these corals to grow and recoup I wont be putting them back in the main 75g, once they are stable and growing I will put them back into the main display which has the same values as the nano tank. Its just after a year now I should have seen some growth atleast. Dont know what I am doing wrong.
-Richard
