So I have received my results but not sure what to do next. The most surprising to me was the elevated copper. I will get some poly-filter; hopefully it will take care of some of the other elevated heavy metals as well. The system has been setup for almost 3 years and I have never really been able to get it to what I consider thrive. The few LPS and softies I have do well but I’ve had my fair share of SPS issues in the past. They seem to do well initially, good color and growth for the first couple of months followed by a steady decline. All tests come back normal and the main parameters are kept stable with my calcium reactor. Currently the tank is doing well; all SPS and other corals are showing good growth and color. There are a few pieces that are even rebounding from the last “bad spellâ€. I do have some cyano and brown algae that were kicked off by a wandering anemone followed by the loss of my return pump for a week. Any thoughts or suggestions would be welcomed.
System Details.
160G total water volume
Mainly SPS ~25 frags/mini colonies,few LSP (euphyllia), couple leathers, and 12 fish.
115g Display (48 x 28 x 20)
75g sump - run half ful
20g refugium with cheato, grows steady but not overly fast.
Spectrapure MaxCap 90 with extra chloramine filter
Lifereef SV2-24 skimmer
ASD calcium reactor running ARM extra course media, secondary chamber running ARM aragonite
ATI 10x39w powermodule
Maxspect Gyre
Reeflo Swordtail as return connected to Vertex Mocean
Tunze ATO
½ cup BRS lignite carbon used passively in sump
Dosing
Use IO salt, was previously using red sea blue bucket
BRS kalkwasser
Zeovit Products
Using Coral Snow and ZeoZyme with Zeobak and Biomate to help fight off some cyano and brown snot algae. Been using for approximately 2 weeks, algae and cyano has receded, still a few spots hanging around. No other algae problems.
Food
Feed a healthy mix of frozen and pellets, also use oyster feast 3 x week.
Other parameters tested last week.
Alk – 8.5 (hanna)
Cal – 420 (red sea)
PO3 – 0.02 (hanna)
NO3 – 1-2.5ppm (salifert)
System Details.
160G total water volume
Mainly SPS ~25 frags/mini colonies,few LSP (euphyllia), couple leathers, and 12 fish.
115g Display (48 x 28 x 20)
75g sump - run half ful
20g refugium with cheato, grows steady but not overly fast.
Spectrapure MaxCap 90 with extra chloramine filter
Lifereef SV2-24 skimmer
ASD calcium reactor running ARM extra course media, secondary chamber running ARM aragonite
ATI 10x39w powermodule
Maxspect Gyre
Reeflo Swordtail as return connected to Vertex Mocean
Tunze ATO
½ cup BRS lignite carbon used passively in sump
Dosing
Use IO salt, was previously using red sea blue bucket
BRS kalkwasser
Zeovit Products
Using Coral Snow and ZeoZyme with Zeobak and Biomate to help fight off some cyano and brown snot algae. Been using for approximately 2 weeks, algae and cyano has receded, still a few spots hanging around. No other algae problems.
Food
Feed a healthy mix of frozen and pellets, also use oyster feast 3 x week.
Other parameters tested last week.
Alk – 8.5 (hanna)
Cal – 420 (red sea)
PO3 – 0.02 (hanna)
NO3 – 1-2.5ppm (salifert)