help with my reef tank

Reefhelp · Apr 17, 2023

HI, im fairly new to the hobby.

I have a reef tank just over 8 months old. Ive never tested my reef tank and have always hoped for the best until now. I have alot of corals that have died (Zoa/ Goni / Hammer/ Frogspawn / Favia / Acro / candy cane and even GSP) everything looked well when i first added corals after cycling but has been downhill since then.

I started dosing All for reef (5ml daily) and over the past 3 months, the torches and xenia look good but the utter chaoas zoa/ goni and toadstool barely open.

My parameters are quite high i think:

ALK - 13.4
CAL - 480/490
PH - 8.0
MAG - 1350

Please can I get some help on steps I can take to get my reef tank stable.

Im looking to stop dosing as cal and alk seem high. will do a water change.

Cell · Apr 17, 2023

Start testing regularly and stop dosing until you do so. Stability is your #1 priority and that's impossible to maintain until you actually monitor your levels and understand how much to dose to maintain them.

Reefhelp · Apr 17, 2023

Cell said:
Start testing regularly and stop dosing until you do so. Stability is your #1 priority and that's impossible to maintain until you actually monitor your levels and understand how much to dose to maintain them.

If I keep the levels how they are now. And just stick to the water changes every week. Will my corals get healthy. Thanks

Reefhelp · Apr 17, 2023

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Lynnzer · Apr 17, 2023

Reefhelp said:
If I keep the levels how they are now. And just stick to the water changes every week. Will my corals get healthy. Thanks

Have you checked salinity readings? I lost virtually every frag I put in my tank. I checked all the other partameters such as ammonia, nitrite, ph etc and they were all spot on. Then I learned about salinity. BANG ------ way up and not at all coral friendly.
That was only last Saturday. I've got the reading correct now with an ATO to replace evaporation and some of the frags I thought had died have opened new polyps with colour showing.

Reefhelp · Apr 17, 2023

salinity is sitting at 1.26. Was always 1.25 but recently increased it to see if the corals may become happier, but been the same. I use tropic marine salt and do a 10% change every other week.

Losing corals sucks,.