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Agreed, Mixed Reef is tough. I fought many battles, but ultimately decided to stick with mostly LPS, aside of my many anacropora and a bali green slimer....I'm focusing on custom hammers, Torches, zoas, cyphastrea, ricordea etc. When trying to make sps happy, you can upset your LPS and vice versa.I struggled for a long time with my acros as well. It took me months to find my "recipe" . Judging by your numbers I don't see any reason why you couldn't succeed with acros, I think you just need to find the right mix for you.
For me I ended up removing most of my Lps and Leathers, cranking the flow and lighting higher, using kalkwasser, and carbon dosing along with heavy nutrients Eventually it started to take off for me and now I have 50 acros.
I think focusing on higher ph and higher nutrients with strong flow and lighting to start and go from there.
Mixed reef is tough.
Yeah. I will have to consider more wave makers. That makes a lot of sense. I have had 2 die previously. These just show some signs that i thought were stress.Your major elements and nutrients look good. I wouldn’t worry about pH either. Do you have any leathers? They are known to cause trouble with acros.
I have kept acros alive in lower 200 PAR, they didn’t grow all that crazy (tank was young at that time anyway), but none died.
Like so many people already suggested, it might not be getting enough flow. Might be worthwhile moving it to a higher flow area before buying new wavemakers.
Your rocks looks mature as well, with great coraline coverage. Makes me wonder if there are any pollutants/minor element imbalances that is causing all the issues.
Edit: On re-reading your comments, I don’t see any mention of acros dying. Are they just stagnant? If so that is to be expected. I have acros that did nothing for 1 full year and then started growing like crazy. Only a handful of them showed growth within months of introduction to the tank.
Agreed, Mixed Reef is tough. I fought many battles, but ultimately decided to stick with mostly LPS, aside of my many anacropora and a bali green slimer....I'm focusing on custom hammers, Torches, zoas, cyphastrea, ricordea etc. When trying to make sps happy, you can upset your LPS and vice versa.
My SPS would be good, but LPS not so much, so o just decided go with LPS dominant and am much happier now.
One day maybe I'll have a stick tank with a few LPS, but that's in the future.
Uh huh!Mixed reef is tough.