InvaderJim
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This initially started as a thread in the SPS section asking for help on why I can’t keep acros, but lately it seems to have stemmed into something else entirely with multiple corals seemingly going down hill. I have tried everything yet corals either survive or die. Absolutely nothing grows. Recently changed all my filters due to TDS reading 1 but the only thing I can think is maybe something from my well water is getting passed my ro/di or the top off from the 1 TDS has something bad in it.
The tank is a seapora/deep blue 80g shallow, running a 40 breeder for a sump. I'm running a clarisea sk-3000, simplicity 240dc skimmer and a vectra s2 return pump. Nothing else fancy down below. Lighting is a ATI 6 bulb T5 fixture ~15" over the tank (bulbs are all new), and water movement is 2x MP40s set to anti-sync lagoon mode plus a gyre XF330. The tank has been up for 2 years in November of last year. ICP showed everything within normal levels except iodine. RO/DI was perfect. I make my own water using a 5 stage ro/di and Red Sea blue bucket.
Parameters:
pH - 7.8 - 8.2
DKH - 8.0-8.5
CA - 430
MG - 1350
Po4 - 0.08-0.1
No3 - 10-15 (pretty steady)
I have tried a handful of acro frags from different places, a milka stylo, monti setosa as well and nothing survives. I have a decent size monti cap that looks to be declining and a monti spongodes that is surviving but everything else dies. Some in days, some in weeks. Location doesn’t matter, source doesn’t matter. Some will do fine on the frag rack, great polyp extension and then one day STN. More recently I have noticed other corals declining also.
What I’ve tried:
- Sent off ICP
- Mapped PAR
- Raising lights
- Running carbon and purit and also running without
- Adding more and randomized flow
- Slightly bypassing filter roller
- Stopped all dosing
- Added more fish
- Added some live sand/mud from IPSF
- Checked for stray voltage
The tank is a seapora/deep blue 80g shallow, running a 40 breeder for a sump. I'm running a clarisea sk-3000, simplicity 240dc skimmer and a vectra s2 return pump. Nothing else fancy down below. Lighting is a ATI 6 bulb T5 fixture ~15" over the tank (bulbs are all new), and water movement is 2x MP40s set to anti-sync lagoon mode plus a gyre XF330. The tank has been up for 2 years in November of last year. ICP showed everything within normal levels except iodine. RO/DI was perfect. I make my own water using a 5 stage ro/di and Red Sea blue bucket.
Parameters:
pH - 7.8 - 8.2
DKH - 8.0-8.5
CA - 430
MG - 1350
Po4 - 0.08-0.1
No3 - 10-15 (pretty steady)
I have tried a handful of acro frags from different places, a milka stylo, monti setosa as well and nothing survives. I have a decent size monti cap that looks to be declining and a monti spongodes that is surviving but everything else dies. Some in days, some in weeks. Location doesn’t matter, source doesn’t matter. Some will do fine on the frag rack, great polyp extension and then one day STN. More recently I have noticed other corals declining also.
What I’ve tried:
- Sent off ICP
- Mapped PAR
- Raising lights
- Running carbon and purit and also running without
- Adding more and randomized flow
- Slightly bypassing filter roller
- Stopped all dosing
- Added more fish
- Added some live sand/mud from IPSF
- Checked for stray voltage
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