Considering going fowlr

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

It's set to zero.. Tuesday when the fish store opens I'll take all the healthy corals to them. Pitch all the dieing ones and just keep my 3 little fish..

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

Any just to clarify it's nothing anyone said or did.. I'm just tired of starting over.. it's time to move on..

Reefrookie220 · Jun 19, 2016

Hate to see you give it up, but that's an awesome tank. Nothing wrong with triggers, lions, and eels though.

Honestly , @Steve Dillon it's got to be something simple... Looks like all the basics are covered so it's just something we are all missing like @BlueDevil said.

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

It's all good.. will save a ton of money..

Esage · Jun 19, 2016

I think your making things way to complicated for a six month old tank. There's no reason to be dosing at this point. Turn the light intensity down, no need for 100% blues if you just have LPS. I fried LPS with those lights at 80%. Ten gallon water change every week, run carbon, and call it a day.

BlueDevil · Jun 19, 2016

I agree with the light intensity. Did you always run the same lights or just recently switched to LED? I still only have my lights at 40% blue and 15% full spectrum.

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

Esage said:
I think your making things way to complicated for a six month old tank. There's no reason to be dosing at this point. Turn the light intensity down, no need for 100% blues if you just have LPS. I fried LPS with those lights at 80%. Ten gallon water change every week, run carbon, and call it a day.

I didn't have the lights at 100%originally when I started having problems people said turn them up.. and now it's turn them down.. you ran this brand light? What was your intensity levels on all three channels? I dose cause tomorrow it will be back to low 8 in alk..

BlueDevil · Jun 19, 2016

Steve Dillon said:
I didn't have the lights at 100%originally when I started having problems people said turn them up.. and now it's turn them down.. you ran this brand light? What was your intensity levels on all three channels? I dose cause tomorrow it will be back to low 8 in alk..

What did you have them at and how much did people ask you to turn them up? And in what timeframe were you asked to turn them up? All this is very vital information.

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

50 blues and 20 whites. It's been a few months. I'll try to find my other thread. With the light being brighter that would really promote the coraline to grow could that explain the alk/calcium difference?

RubenG · Jun 19, 2016

Why dont you try going with soft corals, leathers, xenia, gsp, kenya, hammers frogspawns ect. i've learned soft corals tend to be very forgiving of perameter and temperature swings

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/light-question.248118/

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

I have all of them.. just trying to get my tank better so I can go in to sps..

RubenG · Jun 19, 2016

Gotcha, good luck man dont give up, im waiting for my tank to mature so i can start off on some sps, so for now i just take a step back and enjoy the softies

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

I was wrong I had them ramping up 60/40..

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

RubenG said:
Gotcha, good luck man dont give up, im waiting for my tank to mature so i can start off on some sps, so for now i just take a step back and enjoy the softies

thanks

BlueDevil · Jun 19, 2016

Steve Dillon said:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/light-question.248118/

Nowhere in this thread do I see anyone suggesting that you should turn your blues to 100% unless it was in a different thread. You had asked what everyone has their lights at. I do see a couple of responses with their lights at 100% blues. However what works for them might not work for everyone else. For that matter, they probably got to 100% over a very long time.

Your post from 5/11 said your scollys were looking nice and plump. What did you change since then. And if anything, why did you change?

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

the light have been slowly adjusted.. like over several weeks and still don't come on at 100% til 11am.

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

And that was 5/11

Steve Dillon · Jun 19, 2016

I'll look thru my other threads tomorrow. I know someone suggested turning the light up.. that's why I asked in that thread.. in mean time I'm turning the light to 50% 15% either way they are not doing good..