Looking to see if I might be able to get some advice on where I might be going wrong with my tank. Started out with an Evo 13.5 about 18 months ago. Afer having that up and running for about 13 months I broke it down and upsized to an IM 30 long setup. With both tanks I've struggled to keep several popular and supposedly easy corals alive and thriving. I seem to have problems with torches, duncans, and acans for some reason. They all do ok for a couple of months and then start to decline and then just die off. Also I have frogspawn, hammers, mushrooms, leathers, a chalice of some sort, and even some basic sps that all do fine. They are thriving and growing well. My LT nem is doing awesome. I keep my parameters as follows: Alk 8.6 / Cal 430 / Mag 1350 / Phos .05 - .07 / No3 10 / SG 1.026 / temp. 78. Dosing Alk and Calcium with dosers to keep those stable. I'm also running 2 Prime HD lights approx 10" off surface using Pirates of Caribbean at roughly 60% with 0 whites. I run 2 Jabao sow4 wave makers on medium flow and also run a skimmer. Does anything jump out that could be an issue? Thanks!
Why can’t I keep certain corals?
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Flippers4pups
Fins up since 1993
What's your source water?
W1ngz
Failed Padawan
Gonna go with flippers on this one, maybe the source water. Everything you've listed looks good and long as its stable. The only other thing I can think is flow, the three you mention aren't fans of strong flow in my experience.
I produce my own RODI always at 0 tds.
Also have always placed Acans and Duncan’s on sandbed in lower flow and medium light. Torches I’ve placed in a little higher flow but basically medium light.
You need to feed them. I feed my LPS corals almost daily. Reef Roid sludge, chunks of fish or clam, CoralAmino.
Each acan head gets fed. They will eat small chunks of fish. Hell, my zoas and palys eat chunks of fish.
Start feeding your corals and the growth and reproduction will take off.
Each acan head gets fed. They will eat small chunks of fish. Hell, my zoas and palys eat chunks of fish.
Start feeding your corals and the growth and reproduction will take off.
Silverfish
Valuable Member
I agree with Cuz but make sure you pay attention to your nitrates and phos. The extra food will make it go up for sure. I’m constantly trying to figure out what is enough and what is to much. To find that perfect balance btw healthy coral and correct parameters.
No nipping fish. The only thing that might even mess with them would be my cleaner shrimp and I never see it near them.
Maybe that’s where I’ve been going wrong since I had only been spot feeding once a week at best.
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