I've had my tank setup with corals for about a month now. I added 15 new coral frags that I purchased from world wide corals. These include 4 SPS, and the rest LPS (duncans, zios, ricordias, Lords, torch, hammerhead, and a couple chalices). I am using Instant Ocean Reef Cyrstals for my salt mix. My tank is a 120 gallon with a 30 gal refugium. I'm assuming it is due to the refugium and protein skimmer, but I still have 0 nitrate going on a month strong now (ammonia and nitrite are also 0) I waited 2 months for a full cycle before adding my first fish. Therefore, I have never had to do a water change yet. However, I've noticed that my kh and ca have barely changed, if at all. Currently my Ca is at 440ppm, and my dkH is at 11. PH is at 8, not sure about magnesium. For my lighting I have 2 Kessel's AP700 shinning at 50% on the 4ft, 2ft deep tank. I've been raising the brightness of these lights a couple % a week (started at 30%). Figured I'd keep raising it until it seemed they didn't like it and then dail it back down.
The corals all look to be doing great. In fact, many of them have shown visual growth already. My God of Armor Zio has already tippled in size for 3 polyps to 9! However, I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong here as I expected the ca and dKH to have shown some change after a month. Is this just because the frags are still so small, or should I be concerned something isn't right? I have this big bag of 2-part I bought just collecting dust waiting to be used!
The corals all look to be doing great. In fact, many of them have shown visual growth already. My God of Armor Zio has already tippled in size for 3 polyps to 9! However, I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong here as I expected the ca and dKH to have shown some change after a month. Is this just because the frags are still so small, or should I be concerned something isn't right? I have this big bag of 2-part I bought just collecting dust waiting to be used!
