Hey all
So another post about my on going SPS issues. I notice that any new frags that I add other than a bonsai or milli ends up frying the tips and slimming most of the day and dies.
It's pretty hard for me to keep any SPS frag or colony I add healthy and alive. After a few weeks or month they are toast. They end up either slimming from the tips and RTN'ing from the top down or just growing algae on the tips and won't come back.
Any torts, smooth deep water acros and even a nice milli seem to hate my tank set up. I have ran tanks for years in another city with great SPS success but not here in Victory, BC! They do treat there water with chloramine but I do run a BRS 5 stage RO/DI unit but still see 1 or 2 TDS on the end.
The SPS that are doing well are a Red Planet, a couple of Bonsai's and a pink Milli (no growth tho). I cannot keep any monti caps alive to save my life either... They just start to bleach out, grow algae and die.
Any new SPS frag I add comes to the same fate and almost ready to throw in the towel on SPS.
My LPS, Clams, Zoas are doing great and look healthy.
75 g Tank details 36" long
Light: 36" 8 bulb ATI dimmable. Max 80% about 12hours a day on
Blue LED strip on for 3 hours a day (night)
8" from the water
Flow:
MP10 at max power on pulse setting
Glamorca GP03 at 50% mixed settings
Salt
H2O
Levels
Alk 8-9 shifting (bulk dosing)
Calc 430-450 (bulk dosing)
Mg - Need new test kit
P04 0.00 (hanna)
N04 - Need new test kit
Using AF build + engery
SPS powder food
I do have bubble algae but I have been keeping up with removing it.
I think I covered it all.. Sorry for the long text but I am at a loss right now.. Just not sure whats up
So another post about my on going SPS issues. I notice that any new frags that I add other than a bonsai or milli ends up frying the tips and slimming most of the day and dies.
It's pretty hard for me to keep any SPS frag or colony I add healthy and alive. After a few weeks or month they are toast. They end up either slimming from the tips and RTN'ing from the top down or just growing algae on the tips and won't come back.
Any torts, smooth deep water acros and even a nice milli seem to hate my tank set up. I have ran tanks for years in another city with great SPS success but not here in Victory, BC! They do treat there water with chloramine but I do run a BRS 5 stage RO/DI unit but still see 1 or 2 TDS on the end.
The SPS that are doing well are a Red Planet, a couple of Bonsai's and a pink Milli (no growth tho). I cannot keep any monti caps alive to save my life either... They just start to bleach out, grow algae and die.
Any new SPS frag I add comes to the same fate and almost ready to throw in the towel on SPS.
My LPS, Clams, Zoas are doing great and look healthy.
75 g Tank details 36" long
Light: 36" 8 bulb ATI dimmable. Max 80% about 12hours a day on
Blue LED strip on for 3 hours a day (night)
8" from the water
Flow:
MP10 at max power on pulse setting
Glamorca GP03 at 50% mixed settings
Salt
H2O
Levels
Alk 8-9 shifting (bulk dosing)
Calc 430-450 (bulk dosing)
Mg - Need new test kit
P04 0.00 (hanna)
N04 - Need new test kit
Using AF build + engery
SPS powder food
I do have bubble algae but I have been keeping up with removing it.
I think I covered it all.. Sorry for the long text but I am at a loss right now.. Just not sure whats up