My 350 reefer tank is not doing well and has been struggling for a long time.
I do weekly 20% water changes and keep my hands out, change the socks weekly, vacuum the sand bed weekly, run carbon and NoPox. Use RoDi water at 0 TDS from my home water station.
Kh 8.1 and steady(+- 0.1 maximum daily), Ca 460(+- 5 at the most daily) and steady, Mg 1390 and steady No3 5ppm Po4 0.04 and steady....good flow with 2x gyre, good lighting with AI Hydra 52 and T5 mix. Temp is steady 25.7-26.2.
Whatever I do things just don't seem to get any better. The sps and acros just die, the softies and lps seem to do fine though still slow, except for a Duncan that decided to follow the acro's. The tank holds around a dozen happy fish.
I am really puzzled and annoyed since I do everything that I should be doing.
The only thing left that I'm wondering is that I have a large elegance coral that I placed behind a large GSP that had grown all over its own rock. I wasn't worried about the elegance killing some of the GSP since the GSP is like a weed and the GSP was holding back the elegance. Could the battle between these two corals be polluting the tank and causing problems?
I'm running out of ideas
I do weekly 20% water changes and keep my hands out, change the socks weekly, vacuum the sand bed weekly, run carbon and NoPox. Use RoDi water at 0 TDS from my home water station.
Kh 8.1 and steady(+- 0.1 maximum daily), Ca 460(+- 5 at the most daily) and steady, Mg 1390 and steady No3 5ppm Po4 0.04 and steady....good flow with 2x gyre, good lighting with AI Hydra 52 and T5 mix. Temp is steady 25.7-26.2.
Whatever I do things just don't seem to get any better. The sps and acros just die, the softies and lps seem to do fine though still slow, except for a Duncan that decided to follow the acro's. The tank holds around a dozen happy fish.
I am really puzzled and annoyed since I do everything that I should be doing.
The only thing left that I'm wondering is that I have a large elegance coral that I placed behind a large GSP that had grown all over its own rock. I wasn't worried about the elegance killing some of the GSP since the GSP is like a weed and the GSP was holding back the elegance. Could the battle between these two corals be polluting the tank and causing problems?
I'm running out of ideas
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