Folks,
I'm over a year into by dream tank build and as far as coral goes, it's been an frustrating ride to say the least. I have been running the tank essentially coral-less while allowing the Alk / Cal to adjust and level out some. My tank cannot support anything outside of softies and I'm at my whitts end. I'm sending off an ICP test from triton again cause all of my levels are where they need to be. I stopped doing my weekly water changes and have since adjusted to bi-weekly as I wanted my NO3 / P to climb a bit as they were largely zeroed out constantly.
I got my order of 'starter' coral and everything almost immedagily started showing signs of stress except the Zoas / Leather / Mushrooms. it's been maybe a month and i'm pulling out any coral with a calcium skeleton as they've all died. The one thing that kind of freaked me out is i had a goni that I got from a friend and I looked at the frag today and its totally dead and it was the 'survivor.'
Is there anything that would make my corals die like this you can think of? I'm impatient as I was hoping I found some success with more than the softies out of this batch, but as a result I'm tossing in the towel and turning to R2R for help...
NO3 - <1
PO4 - <1
Ammonia - 0
CA - 450
Alk - 9.5
Mag - 1500
(all of these levels are pretty consistent and they never swing more than 5% either direction)
I'm over a year into by dream tank build and as far as coral goes, it's been an frustrating ride to say the least. I have been running the tank essentially coral-less while allowing the Alk / Cal to adjust and level out some. My tank cannot support anything outside of softies and I'm at my whitts end. I'm sending off an ICP test from triton again cause all of my levels are where they need to be. I stopped doing my weekly water changes and have since adjusted to bi-weekly as I wanted my NO3 / P to climb a bit as they were largely zeroed out constantly.
I got my order of 'starter' coral and everything almost immedagily started showing signs of stress except the Zoas / Leather / Mushrooms. it's been maybe a month and i'm pulling out any coral with a calcium skeleton as they've all died. The one thing that kind of freaked me out is i had a goni that I got from a friend and I looked at the frag today and its totally dead and it was the 'survivor.'
Is there anything that would make my corals die like this you can think of? I'm impatient as I was hoping I found some success with more than the softies out of this batch, but as a result I'm tossing in the towel and turning to R2R for help...
NO3 - <1
PO4 - <1
Ammonia - 0
CA - 450
Alk - 9.5
Mag - 1500
(all of these levels are pretty consistent and they never swing more than 5% either direction)