Dear Friends,
I have had current tank setup for about 8 months, went thru alot of ups and downs during cycle, but everything has been rocking for the past 4-5 months. All of my softies and LPS are thriving, but any time I trial any SPS, cyphastreas, chalice, favias, they do not do well at all...SPS deteriote and go white skeleton in matter of week, heartbreaking. I have auto-water change system, but do not run it constantly. 200 gallons total.
I test daily, Alkalinity was running around 8, but I have decided to slowly move to 9s.
Nitrates always around 5-10
Phosphates around .10-.13
Magnesium 1300-1400
Calcium 420-460
Ph 7.9 - 8.25 (daily swings from 8-8.2, drops when CO2 scrubber media exhausted)
I decided to get an ICP test to see what could be cause for the demise of my SPS and other hard corals, I am curious to your expert opinions please! My curiosity was if the demise of hard corals was due to water quality or lighting/flow
Key alerts: Iodine nonexistent, Aluminum HIGH. Silicon Super HIGH @Randy Holmes-Farley Thoughts on high silicon???
I have had current tank setup for about 8 months, went thru alot of ups and downs during cycle, but everything has been rocking for the past 4-5 months. All of my softies and LPS are thriving, but any time I trial any SPS, cyphastreas, chalice, favias, they do not do well at all...SPS deteriote and go white skeleton in matter of week, heartbreaking. I have auto-water change system, but do not run it constantly. 200 gallons total.
I test daily, Alkalinity was running around 8, but I have decided to slowly move to 9s.
Nitrates always around 5-10
Phosphates around .10-.13
Magnesium 1300-1400
Calcium 420-460
Ph 7.9 - 8.25 (daily swings from 8-8.2, drops when CO2 scrubber media exhausted)
I decided to get an ICP test to see what could be cause for the demise of my SPS and other hard corals, I am curious to your expert opinions please! My curiosity was if the demise of hard corals was due to water quality or lighting/flow
Key alerts: Iodine nonexistent, Aluminum HIGH. Silicon Super HIGH @Randy Holmes-Farley Thoughts on high silicon???