Toadstools

[joyce1987]

Evening all,

I have been keeping a marine tank now for a few years and seem to be struggling with my toadstools. They never seem to fully extend their polyps and haven’t grow if anything they are shrinking since a house move nearly 4 years ago. Before this they opened fully and were a lot larger. They are all in moderate flow and situated in the middle third of my tank. My Zoas seem happy and reproducing well.

My parameters are the following taken this morning.
Calcium 440 mg/l

Phosphate under 0.003

Alk 9.3 dkh /3.30 166 ppm

Nitrate 10 ppm

Ammonia 0 ppm

Nitrite 0

Ph 8.0

Salinity 1.023

Temp 27 / 80

The tank itself is a 300ltr display with a 50ltr sump.
Lighting tmc v2 illumenair
Clarisea sk5000
Tmc 1500 DC reef skim skimmer
Dc return pump
3 power heads set to wave and slaved together.

Stock
2 clown fish
1 royal gamma
4 chromis
1 yellow box
4 hermit
5 snails
2 shrimp
21 toadstools all approx size of a 50p but have slowly shrank used to be the size of a cup.
25 head patch of zoas seem happy and multiplying regularly.
Bubble tip opening well and feeding.

I don’t dose anything apart from seachem iodide I don’t have a test kit so going off the recommended usage on the back of 8 ml every other day.

Bit of a long one but want to give the SME in the forum all the info as I used to love the way they looked in the tank. Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Your po4 is low, also have you tried broadcast feeding phyto? Maybe try dosing trace? Also are you using hanna low range po4 checker? The low range gave me weird readings with my po4

 

[FUNGI]

I would also look at increased flow.

Your po4 is low, also have you tried broadcast feeding phyto? Maybe try dosing trace? Also are you using hanna low range po4 checker? The low range gave me weird readings with my po4

 

[joyce1987]

Evening,

I have been using the Profi lab test kit. I have the Hanna fluid on order.
I have tried feeding reef roids aswell as Artemia via a syringe.
I currently don’t dose trace as I’m not sure we’re to start with that process. I’ve been looking at dosing pumps

 

[Bran8409]

I am currently dealing with my Toadstool not opening at all. Its been a little shy of a week. I do have some algae growing on the glass but none on the rocks. I am just using the regular pump that comes with the evo 13.5 and it is not directly on it. Any Ideas?