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Wow those are some good results! Wish mine would start looking better.
What's up with yours? Post some stats and parameters
Your dosing seems a little more exact so I may adjust my mix and try to be more exact with the dosage.
http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/calculator.htm use this to make your own recipe unique to your system. The first 2 days I did it I tested almost every 3-4 hours. What are your NO3 levels at now?
A couple weeks ago I got a bunch of frags from BattleCorals and Cultivated Reef. They looked great for two days then started fading color and no PE. I lost 2 of them then a couple days later another 1. Before I got them I was running ULNS on AquaForest. A month and a half before or so I lost another 5 SPS frags suddenly when I started using the full program. Fast forward the week before I got my last batch I started dosing stump remover to bring my nitrates up to about 2. I was still dosing the bacteria and supplements. I think what happened was that the bacteria and my mechanical export were too efficient and the corals still starved. On top of that my lighting may have had some effect as the frags were placed in areas where par was in the 300s. Effectively with the light and not enough available nutrients they began to starve. I've since turned my lighting way down and have been keeping an eye on nitrates no real positive effects other than no more losses. Tonight I dosed 60mL in my 150 gal system hoping to get my nitrates up from 2-3 to 8-10ppm. I also fed some Reef chili. I'm using twilliards recipe. 10ml raises his nitrates by 1.4 per 10ml in his 80gal system.
sounds good, keep us posted. No waters changes for me and algae is getting darker. There is a strange thing that happens with glass when you don't do water changes. Do you have coralline algae growing on the glass?
Guys could use some suggestions regarding increasing p04. Since i stopped zeobak dosing and skimming as well as dosing n03 via stump remover I still read 0 on p04. I've heard that these test kits really don't show the whole picture though i'm wondering if i'm p04 limited still. Currently my no3 is 5-7ppm still feeding a lot during the day.
Your right i do need more fish, will see what i can get. Really hate bring new fish into a system with 5 health Tangs...