Acro's surviving but not thriving

[MGarrison]

Something else to consider - your foxface and / or coral beauty may be nipping at your corals.

i considered this and at this time I have not seen either of them go near those two corals. I wasn't aware that foxfaces were known to go after corals.

 

[thepotoo]

One spot foxface is safe, others are hit and miss. Fish could easily be nipping when you can't see them. Put some egg crate around the milli for a couple days and see if the PE reappears.

For flow, drop a pinch of food in the water upstream of the corals and make sure there's at least 10 cm/second of flow going over the coral. It should not be hitting the coral directly.

I second what others have said about the importance of a PAR meter.

 

[dieselkeeper]

Don't know if you know. Acros will encrust before they start growing.

 

[MGarrison]

Don't know if you know. Acros will encrust before they start growing.

True, but if you look at my past/present pictures, they are not even encusting much.
Got a par meter today working on crunching the numbers. Sneak peak the but the slimmer was @ 350 - 360 and the blue milli was at 430 - 450. I have brought my over all schedule percentage down from 85% to 65%. I am using ReefDudes template.

 

[MGarrison]

White is the schedule from 11:30 - 2:30 (3 hours) Blue is 3:30 - 7:30 (4 hours)

Finished off setting overall schedule to 57% to get those numbers.