With as long as I had a reef, this new one is kicking my a$s. SPS and a lot of other corals keep withering away and dying.
What's good: Acans, zoa's, chalices, blastos, brains, BTA, shrimps, tube warm, thriving pod population, coraline algae growing everywhere.
What I can't keep: Montis cap and digi, lepto jack o'lantern, reverse prism favia, and a slew of acros - slimer, smooth skin etc. They die over 4-6 weeks.
All fish are happy and good
I thought it was too much light as I have 3 radion pro's on a 155. I knocked it down to 2, and they are max 40% so sure it's not the light, setting was for 14k, but now a bit bluer - ATI
I've tested everything so many times, with different test kits. ALK, CALC, MAG, NO3, PO4, Ammonia, all seem fine. Ph runs between 8.1-8.2
Trying not to make any knee jerk reactions, and changing slowly, trying one thing at a time over several weeks, but still seeing a decline.
Using Liveaquaria pro salt, tested RO water with a dip for chlorine, and it's good, and 0 ppm. All filters including RO are new.
I do run ozone, and only use it 5min per hr, for half the day. I don't run filter socks and the ozone stops build up. I turned it off for 3 weeks and it had no change.
Sump is full of cheto, that grows really well. I did start to see PO4 get a bit high (1ppm), but got that back down with less feeding.
My experience says the skimmer is a bit oversized, but doesn't seem to be skimming too much...
I looked around for anything that could have rusted, or fallen in, and do not see anything.
Run about a cup of carbon, change out monthly, and tried using less and more, not change. Thinking next to take that out for a few weeks.
I just ordered ICP water test - the one here in CO (from BRS) and should have that here in a few days. I'll send it out right away.
No fish nip or attach corals, after looking and looking, I don't see any red bugs, nudies, AEFW, or any other parasite.... I even took out an orange digi and dipped it to see if I could see anything bad in the dip, nothing.
Keep trying but lost a lot of coral, and feel like an idiot. Any advice or area to explore is welcomed...
What's good: Acans, zoa's, chalices, blastos, brains, BTA, shrimps, tube warm, thriving pod population, coraline algae growing everywhere.
What I can't keep: Montis cap and digi, lepto jack o'lantern, reverse prism favia, and a slew of acros - slimer, smooth skin etc. They die over 4-6 weeks.
All fish are happy and good
I thought it was too much light as I have 3 radion pro's on a 155. I knocked it down to 2, and they are max 40% so sure it's not the light, setting was for 14k, but now a bit bluer - ATI
I've tested everything so many times, with different test kits. ALK, CALC, MAG, NO3, PO4, Ammonia, all seem fine. Ph runs between 8.1-8.2
Trying not to make any knee jerk reactions, and changing slowly, trying one thing at a time over several weeks, but still seeing a decline.
Using Liveaquaria pro salt, tested RO water with a dip for chlorine, and it's good, and 0 ppm. All filters including RO are new.
I do run ozone, and only use it 5min per hr, for half the day. I don't run filter socks and the ozone stops build up. I turned it off for 3 weeks and it had no change.
Sump is full of cheto, that grows really well. I did start to see PO4 get a bit high (1ppm), but got that back down with less feeding.
My experience says the skimmer is a bit oversized, but doesn't seem to be skimming too much...
I looked around for anything that could have rusted, or fallen in, and do not see anything.
Run about a cup of carbon, change out monthly, and tried using less and more, not change. Thinking next to take that out for a few weeks.
I just ordered ICP water test - the one here in CO (from BRS) and should have that here in a few days. I'll send it out right away.
No fish nip or attach corals, after looking and looking, I don't see any red bugs, nudies, AEFW, or any other parasite.... I even took out an orange digi and dipped it to see if I could see anything bad in the dip, nothing.
Keep trying but lost a lot of coral, and feel like an idiot. Any advice or area to explore is welcomed...