As the title suggests, I was having good success with my 3 gallon tank. Frogspawn was looking fantastic, I had my old AI Prime slowly ramping up over two months. About half way through the ramp (up to a maximum of intensity of around 35% using David Saxby’s settings) my frogspawn started to expel zooxanthellae during the more white spectrum of my lighting each day. I don’t know what is going on with my tank at this point, test kits aren’t showing me anything awful so I sent off an ICP test (hopefully getting results back tomorrow or Monday). I don’t know if it’s the new tank syndrome (tank was upgraded from smaller tank that was started in November, upgraded to 3 gallon in February) but stony corals just aren’t looking great (except my hammer coral which looks fantastic). Even my leptoseris started bleaching at the edges. Stylophora has remained brown since purchasing it but it shows great polyp extension. I don’t know what to say at this point, just disappointed. Picture 1 was a little over a month ago (the head had four mouths on it that were beginning to split apart). Diatoms became progressively worse and have remained since then as seen on rock in Picture 2 with the same Frogspawn looking very bad. It’s just odd that some of the corals look great and other ones look horrible, I don’t know what to make of it.
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