Red Sea black vs blue bucket am I hurting my coral

[rc100722]

I’ve been reefing for a year now and lost lots of coral in the process and after really looking at my and really thinking and watching videos I think my problem was choosing Red Sea black bucket over blue considering not having sps and not alot of coral to take in the higher numbers the black bucket puts out and I keep thinking this cause of torch is still the same size as the day I purchased it probably a year ago any help is appreciated if I should just switch over to blue bucket which has normal numbers

 

[Mschmidt]

That could be part of it. What are the rest of your tank numbers? How are you running the tanks? Light, flow, other nutrients, pests, disease could all cause issues.

That said, you definitely don't need the high all of black bucket without sps in the tank.

 

[rc100722]

That could be part of it. What are the rest of your tank numbers? How are you running the tanks? Light, flow, other nutrients, pests, disease could all cause issues.

That said, you definitely don't need the high all of black bucket without sps in the tank.

Everything is fine clean tank good on water changes just no growth and coral look worse off after I put in my tank and it’s the last thing I can think about I’ve been up and down with lighting also mind you there only about 8-10 frags in tank

 

[Spare time]

Parameters? What test kits? The black bucket is fine I traditionally run alk at higher levels. It is only an issue with sps when you run an ULNS.

 

[Spare time]

Everything is fine clean tank good on water changes just no growth and coral look worse off after I put in my tank and it’s the last thing I can think about I’ve been up and down with lighting also mind you there only about 8-10 frags in tank

Constantly changing lighting will stress the corals.

 

[Mschmidt]

"Everything's fine" isn't a helpful metric. If nutrients are causing an issue, and since you are suspecting nutrients to be a cause, we need to know what the actual numbers are: Nitrate, phosphate, alkalinity, calcium, salinity, and temp. There's nothing in black bucket other than the high alk that may cause problems, assuming you're mixing to an appropriate salinity. Also, sudden changes will stress the coral, as spare time said regarding the lighting. If you have alk swings any coral in the tank will suffer.

 

[rc100722]

And the numbers on the fourth was right before water change salt is at 1026

 

[rc100722]

"Everything's fine" isn't a helpful metric. If nutrients are causing an issue, and since you are suspecting nutrients to be a cause, we need to know what the actual numbers are: Nitrate, phosphate, alkalinity, calcium, salinity, and temp. There's nothing in black bucket other than the high alk that may cause problems, assuming you're mixing to an appropriate salinity. Also, sudden changes will stress the coral, as spare time said regarding the lighting. If you have alk swings any coral in the tank will suffer.

As for lighting I’ve gone a month too see if any changes

 

[Mschmidt]

I see nothing wrong with those numbers. a month isn't long, they are likely settling in.

 

[rc100722]

I see nothing wrong with those numbers. a month isn't long, they are likely settling in.

Tank has been running 1 year now and nothing besides a mushroom from 1 to 4 has grown I’ve lost torches zoas 10 % water change weekly sometimes even more recently finally added sps and they seem to be going that’s why I’ve been thinking my salt is to strong at the moment for what my current corals need I’m doing water changes so nothing at this point cause my corals aren’t asking for much but in return I’m putting them in those high numbers

 

[rc100722]

This is my year old tank already losing the stylo

 

[rc100722]

year old and only have about 8 dots of coralline also

 

[Mschmidt]

Couple other ideas could be too much flow for the torch, depending on the power of that gyre, stagnant water in that substrate causing toxicity issues, constant changes to he tank.

If it's none of those, could be that things die sometimes and we don't know why, it's adjusting, it's a slow grower. I've got some slow growers, some fast growers.