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So I've been avoiding posting about this over the past 6 months but at this point I could use and help/constructive criticism I can get. My tank has been up for a year now and my goal with it was to have an sps dominant system. Over the past year every piece of sps I put in does great for two weeks then burns at the tips and slowly withers away. In the beginning I figured the tank just wasnt mature enough also I was manually dosing so I decided to get a doser to automate it and steadily throughout the day to avoid swings. I kept my nutrients pretty low (no3 at 1-2 and po4 at .03) Also the few lps I had were either hanging on or dying. I then began to research higher nutrients so at about 6 months I raised them quite a bit over a period of time. (No3 15ppm po4 .05) my all at this time was always between 7.8-8 on my hannah and my cal was always around 460. I test alk every day at 4:30pm. Around 8 months I had two across and a grape monti start to grow. The across only encrusted a little but the grape monti doubled in size. Shortly after same thing acros stned and the cap started growing algae. It's now 12 months and I just had two more acros stn..oddly the grape monti is growing a little in two spots.
I forgot to mention my lps since the increased nutrients look much better but will not grow. The only thing growing at the moment are zoom. I also forgot to mention I sent out icp tests twice one at 6 months and 1 at 11 months..everything was green except iodine I believe which was low.
A little about how I currently run my system. I like to keep it simple. No gfo. I took carbon offline about 3 months ago. I run a large skimmer and have a small fuge which chaeto that grows ok. Marine pure brick (the big one) been in for 6 months.
For flow I run two gyre 230 one on %80 random and the other on %50 constant. The switch flow pattern every 4 hours from constant to random. Also have a cor 20 for the return
I have aquatic life hybrid with 3 blue+ and 1 purple+. Two hydra 26 hd.
This is all on a 100g cad lights with 40g sump
I use DOS dousing Randy's 2 part for all and esv for cal.
Current paramus
Alk 8.0
Cal 460
Mag1380
No3 15
Po4 .06
Ph 8.15
Temp 79
1.025
I forgot to mention my lps since the increased nutrients look much better but will not grow. The only thing growing at the moment are zoom. I also forgot to mention I sent out icp tests twice one at 6 months and 1 at 11 months..everything was green except iodine I believe which was low.
A little about how I currently run my system. I like to keep it simple. No gfo. I took carbon offline about 3 months ago. I run a large skimmer and have a small fuge which chaeto that grows ok. Marine pure brick (the big one) been in for 6 months.
For flow I run two gyre 230 one on %80 random and the other on %50 constant. The switch flow pattern every 4 hours from constant to random. Also have a cor 20 for the return
I have aquatic life hybrid with 3 blue+ and 1 purple+. Two hydra 26 hd.
This is all on a 100g cad lights with 40g sump
I use DOS dousing Randy's 2 part for all and esv for cal.
Current paramus
Alk 8.0
Cal 460
Mag1380
No3 15
Po4 .06
Ph 8.15
Temp 79
1.025