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I have been struggling with acros for about 6 months and trying to keep them. When introduced they start doing good and fade away after 3 weeks i test weekly. And everything is stable so confused monti's do well
My parameters are 480ca 1400mg alk 12.5,phos.2-.5. Temp 79-80 ,ph7.8 night. Day ph 8.09 feed mysis once a day any suggestions
Tu as trop de p04 !Are they getting pale, turning brown, or turning white?
I see that a lot of your rock surface area has slimy green on it, does that mean your phosphates are higher? I'm getting that on my rocks as well but my sps look great
My parameters are like adkins and they turn with my lights run at 40% i need help also please helpAre they getting pale, turning brown, or turning white?
Just follow Elegant Coral's recomendation.I have been struggling with acros for about 6 months and trying to keep them. When introduced they start doing good and fade away after 3 weeks i test weekly. And everything is stable so confused monti's do well
My parameters are 480ca 1400mg alk 12.5,phos.2-.5. Temp 79-80 ,ph7.8 night. Day ph 8.09 feed mysis once a day any suggestions
Do you have a picture of your tank? I also run kalkwasser, through a dosing pump now instead of ATO, and my Dkh is around 11 as well with my CA being at 470. I've seen the calcium alkalinity ratio calculator and from the Ca level that a lot of people run at a higher Alk is called for. The majority of the people on this thread have their Alk around 7 or 8 though.90 gallon standard tank sps dominated
Dkh-11
Ph-7.8-8.1
Po4-.04
No3- undetectable
Calcium-400
Temp 77-79F
Magnesium 1250ppm
Salinity 1.026
Lighthing single ati blue plus 48" t5
Two chinese 120w $80 fixtures non dimmable
Two viaqua 150 titanium heaters
35gallon sump with 6 gallon refugium lit by a cree 18w led standard houshold bulb at 5000k in a clamp lamp refugium has deep sand bed LR and cheato as well as a leafy macro
A chinese gfo reactor i run brs regular gfo at 1 cup i change 1 tablespoon of gfo weekly
I also run a biopellet reactor with TRopic marin pellets 3 cups i add a tablespoon a month or so to top off
2 koralias
1 mp10 vortech
350gph return
Aqua c Ev180 skimmer
I feed very heavily 4-5 times daily with new life spectrum, macro marine algea and mysis
My bio load is large i have 4 tangs 3 clowns chromis manderins matted filefish shrimp linkia stars hermits snails mini serpents, astrias ect.
I have stylophora montipora acropora poccilipora seriatapora millepora lps and a couple soft corals gorgonians and nps corals. Loaded and growing strong.
The key to growing sps is simple keep whatever parameters u have stable especially alkalinity I dose nothing but kalkwasser mixed with vinegar and change 5 gallons of water every sunday using redsea cp, i do not use rodi nor have i ever this is not recommended by me it is just how i do it i have good tap spring water this tank is a little over a year old and has had tremendous growth on a light budget and very stable the trick to stability is just to do every thing you do slowly lots of tiny water changes rather than less frequent big ones change media small portions at a time and let things mature keep your hands out of the water and dont make big changes. Ive had sps lps soft reefs for 12 years now. Biggest issues i ever had was trying to introduce coral to a imature tank my tank is not a low nutrient system and ive found alk ranges from 10-12dkh work well in this tank in lower nutrient tanks ive had with small bioloads i prefer to be in the 7.5-9dkh range. Its also not easy at this point to find a stable consistent salt at those ranges ive used tropic marin pro reef regular and bio actif as well as io. rc, rscp, brightwell aquaforest and and oceanic. I picked the rscp due to its consistent dkh reading. I will be trying salinity for the next bucket as ive heard positive things about it. Ive found corals and fish do better at 1.026sg or 35ppt salinity. Also helps get full potential of the calcium concentration in the salt. Ive run calcium reactors balling method and dosing two part with limited success i prefer kalkwasser mixed at 5 gallons water 8 teaspoons kalk 150 ml white distilled vinegar in ato my pump chamber holds less than a gallon so the ato runs alot again lots of small doses are better than one big dose.....
I have been struggling with acros for about 6 months and trying to keep them. When introduced they start doing good and fade away after 3 weeks i test weekly. And everything is stable so confused monti's do well
My parameters are 480ca 1400mg alk 12.5,phos.2-.5. Temp 79-80 ,ph7.8 night. Day ph 8.09 feed mysis once a day any suggestions
@helldiver - what are your nitrates at? With that high of alk and no nutrients SPS will basically try and grow themselves to death. @Russ265 - I think it was you who said that it is like feeding the bone structure but not adding any flesh and muscle - no fat in the diet.
looks like @stingman might be having similar issues with the undetectable nitrate levels and high alk. I started back in the hobby after taking about 15 years off and all I could think is nitrates = bad so I designed my system to have undetectable traces of nitrates. However, equipment and tactics, mainly skimmers and tank turnover, has gotten so advanced that it removes too much nitrate which is basically the carbs/fat of an SPS diet, mainly the zooxanthellae need the nitrate for photosynthesis. As we all do SPS need a balanced diet. My Monti's do well also but I think they may not be as reliant on zooxanth as other SPS corals - this is an assumption so somebody chime in if this is false.
There are a bunch of articles on this site about dosing nitrates which may be your issue.
Do you have a picture of your tank? I also run kalkwasser, through a dosing pump now instead of ATO, and my Dkh is around 11 as well with my CA being at 470. I've seen the calcium alkalinity ratio calculator and from the Ca level that a lot of people run at a higher Alk is called for. The majority of the people on this thread have their Alk around 7 or 8 though.90 gallon standard tank sps dominated
Dkh-11
Ph-7.8-8.1
Po4-.04
No3- undetectable
Calcium-400
Temp 77-79F
Magnesium 1250ppm
Salinity 1.026
Lighthing single ati blue plus 48" t5
Two chinese 120w $80 fixtures non dimmable
Two viaqua 150 titanium heaters
35gallon sump with 6 gallon refugium lit by a cree 18w led standard houshold bulb at 5000k in a clamp lamp refugium has deep sand bed LR and cheato as well as a leafy macro
A chinese gfo reactor i run brs regular gfo at 1 cup i change 1 tablespoon of gfo weekly
I also run a biopellet reactor with TRopic marin pellets 3 cups i add a tablespoon a month or so to top off
2 koralias
1 mp10 vortech
350gph return
Aqua c Ev180 skimmer
I feed very heavily 4-5 times daily with new life spectrum, macro marine algea and mysis
My bio load is large i have 4 tangs 3 clowns chromis manderins matted filefish shrimp linkia stars hermits snails mini serpents, astrias ect.
I have stylophora montipora acropora poccilipora seriatapora millepora lps and a couple soft corals gorgonians and nps corals. Loaded and growing strong.
The key to growing sps is simple keep whatever parameters u have stable especially alkalinity I dose nothing but kalkwasser mixed with vinegar and change 5 gallons of water every sunday using redsea cp, i do not use rodi nor have i ever this is not recommended by me it is just how i do it i have good tap spring water this tank is a little over a year old and has had tremendous growth on a light budget and very stable the trick to stability is just to do every thing you do slowly lots of tiny water changes rather than less frequent big ones change media small portions at a time and let things mature keep your hands out of the water and dont make big changes. Ive had sps lps soft reefs for 12 years now. Biggest issues i ever had was trying to introduce coral to a imature tank my tank is not a low nutrient system and ive found alk ranges from 10-12dkh work well in this tank in lower nutrient tanks ive had with small bioloads i prefer to be in the 7.5-9dkh range. Its also not easy at this point to find a stable consistent salt at those ranges ive used tropic marin pro reef regular and bio actif as well as io. rc, rscp, brightwell aquaforest and and oceanic. I picked the rscp due to its consistent dkh reading. I will be trying salinity for the next bucket as ive heard positive things about it. Ive found corals and fish do better at 1.026sg or 35ppt salinity. Also helps get full potential of the calcium concentration in the salt. Ive run calcium reactors balling method and dosing two part with limited success i prefer kalkwasser mixed at 5 gallons water 8 teaspoons kalk 150 ml white distilled vinegar in ato my pump chamber holds less than a gallon so the ato runs alot again lots of small doses are better than one big dose.....