Hi everyone,
I’m looking for some advice if possible, I have a couple digitata’s and they’re not doing too well!
They aren’t bleaching but their polyps only ever extend, if at all, at night. My other monti’s (plating), pocillopora and stylo’s are all doing really well and growing quickly.
I tested all my water and there was nothing out of the ordinary e.g my alk was coming in around 7 (low I know but my calcium was too high at around 550 so I stopped adding kalk to allow this to drop naturally), ph is always around 8.3/4, nitrates around 1 and phos was undetectable on my kit.
So I thought there may be some sort of pollution in the water so I sent off an ICP test and I’ll attach my results. I won’t attach my RODI water as it all came back as n/u so I know that probably isn’t the issue.
So basically, my question is could the high reading of copper (running cuprisorb, source is probably coral dip not being rinsed off frags properly) or the aluminium (I think came from a nori clip rusting, also been removed) irritating my digi’s?
I am running a AI Hydra 52HD on the AB+ settings and a maxspect gyre 150 on about 70% (on the right side of the glass with one end pointing across the bottom and the other across the middle). Photo of the full tank attached for perspective.
Any advice on what it could be would be a great help.
I’m going to do a 50% water change tomorrow to reduce the copper and aluminium and I’ve dosed some Red Sea Trace-Colors to increase the trace elements (iodine etc)
Thanks,
Molly
I’m looking for some advice if possible, I have a couple digitata’s and they’re not doing too well!
They aren’t bleaching but their polyps only ever extend, if at all, at night. My other monti’s (plating), pocillopora and stylo’s are all doing really well and growing quickly.
I tested all my water and there was nothing out of the ordinary e.g my alk was coming in around 7 (low I know but my calcium was too high at around 550 so I stopped adding kalk to allow this to drop naturally), ph is always around 8.3/4, nitrates around 1 and phos was undetectable on my kit.
So I thought there may be some sort of pollution in the water so I sent off an ICP test and I’ll attach my results. I won’t attach my RODI water as it all came back as n/u so I know that probably isn’t the issue.
So basically, my question is could the high reading of copper (running cuprisorb, source is probably coral dip not being rinsed off frags properly) or the aluminium (I think came from a nori clip rusting, also been removed) irritating my digi’s?
I am running a AI Hydra 52HD on the AB+ settings and a maxspect gyre 150 on about 70% (on the right side of the glass with one end pointing across the bottom and the other across the middle). Photo of the full tank attached for perspective.
Any advice on what it could be would be a great help.
I’m going to do a 50% water change tomorrow to reduce the copper and aluminium and I’ve dosed some Red Sea Trace-Colors to increase the trace elements (iodine etc)
Thanks,
Molly