I have a 180 gallon mixed reef and I have about 15 SPS and then a bunch of LPS corals.....NONE of my corals seem to ever grow (including LPS) and most of my SPS end up starting fine and then some will slowly turn from white at the end of tips and grow algae on them and just slowly start to go down on the coral, and then some are fine like my red planted and oregon tort!! This has been going on for a couple months now....I try to keep my parameters as stable as possible and here is what I run and where my parameters are at now....
I run:
UV sterilizer
ASM G4+ skimmer
Dosers for alk and ca
manually dose Mg
BRS carbon and GFO reactor ( started about 2 weeks ago)
Radion Pro Gen 3 lights with 2 t5 strips (radions max out at 45%)
FLOW= mp40 and then a jebao rw15 and a jebao rw20...(confused why algae and cyano will still grow on rocks and corals when the flow is strong?)
I use a spectra pure unit for RO/DI and I do a 15 gallon water change every week using aqua vitro salinity salt
Parameters:
Nitrate 10-15 (salifert)
phosphates: read 0 on my hannah checker every time I check but no idea if that is right or not because I have algae on rocks and back of tank
CA is 420 (salifert)
MG is 1250 (salifert)
ALK is 8.0-8.5 (Hannah)
PH- No Idea
my CA is always stable and check once a week
my alk I check about every 3 days and might vary .3 0r .4 over 3 days or so
MG is always above 1200-1300
I just treated tank today with chemi clean for cyano also.....Any help or advice would be awesome because I honestly don't know what else it could be! Thanks in advance!
I run:
UV sterilizer
ASM G4+ skimmer
Dosers for alk and ca
manually dose Mg
BRS carbon and GFO reactor ( started about 2 weeks ago)
Radion Pro Gen 3 lights with 2 t5 strips (radions max out at 45%)
FLOW= mp40 and then a jebao rw15 and a jebao rw20...(confused why algae and cyano will still grow on rocks and corals when the flow is strong?)
I use a spectra pure unit for RO/DI and I do a 15 gallon water change every week using aqua vitro salinity salt
Parameters:
Nitrate 10-15 (salifert)
phosphates: read 0 on my hannah checker every time I check but no idea if that is right or not because I have algae on rocks and back of tank
CA is 420 (salifert)
MG is 1250 (salifert)
ALK is 8.0-8.5 (Hannah)
PH- No Idea
my CA is always stable and check once a week
my alk I check about every 3 days and might vary .3 0r .4 over 3 days or so
MG is always above 1200-1300
I just treated tank today with chemi clean for cyano also.....Any help or advice would be awesome because I honestly don't know what else it could be! Thanks in advance!
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