So Im getting some STN on a few of my frags and I don't understand why. The other frags polyps are closed up. Heck even my meteor shower's polyps are closed. That thing has always been happy even if the others weren't. Digi's are closed too.
Tank has been running 6 months.
1.025
79F
9.0 alk
420 ca
1290 mg
0 nitrate
0 po4
Everything has been stable for a while. Maybe a few alk spikes from 9 to 10 once or twice right after a new salt bucket, but that hasn't happened recently. I do 15% water changes weekly with regular IO.
I am keeping up with the alk and ca with kalk in the ATO. I do a small drop of vinegar in each gallon that I mix also.
I have been doing GFO in a reactor for about 5 weeks now, but I still have red carpet algae on the sand bed, so I obviously have phosphates. I'm not sure if its related, but part of my sand bed started getting all chunky a few weeks ago. Kinda cemented itself in 1" clumps. Only on one corner though and it hasn't continued. Maybe it was when the alk spiked the one time?
Why am I not being successful here?
Tank has been running 6 months.
1.025
79F
9.0 alk
420 ca
1290 mg
0 nitrate
0 po4
Everything has been stable for a while. Maybe a few alk spikes from 9 to 10 once or twice right after a new salt bucket, but that hasn't happened recently. I do 15% water changes weekly with regular IO.
I am keeping up with the alk and ca with kalk in the ATO. I do a small drop of vinegar in each gallon that I mix also.
I have been doing GFO in a reactor for about 5 weeks now, but I still have red carpet algae on the sand bed, so I obviously have phosphates. I'm not sure if its related, but part of my sand bed started getting all chunky a few weeks ago. Kinda cemented itself in 1" clumps. Only on one corner though and it hasn't continued. Maybe it was when the alk spiked the one time?
Why am I not being successful here?
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