Coral Help

[nickenayat]

My coral seem to be slightly fading in color and growing soooooo slow. Been in the hoppy for about 10 years and have had so much trouble the past 5 years since upgrading to my reeefer 250. Before I had a Nuvo 20 for about 4 years and good grow everything and anything and outgrew the tank before an RTN killed almost everything.

I get ICP tests every 4-6 months and everything is in the right parameters. Have. Neptune and parameters are good (I think).

1230 mag
9.6 alk
470 ca
11 nitrate
.03 phos

I’ve severely struggled with acros mainly and want success but just checking what others thoughts may be. Thank you all

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Fading colour and growing very slowly when parameters are fine usually comes down to low lighting.

 

[CHSUB]

I see an extreme amount of algae, not good for corals.

 

[nickenayat]

Fading colour and growing very slowly when parameters are fine usually comes down to low lighting.

Thank you, that’s what I thought but every time I put my lights above 50% I get bleaching. I have 2 G4 XR 15 radions. I was running them 12 hours similar to WWC in a video I saw but it was too much. Do you have a lighting schedule or suggestions?

 

[nickenayat]

I see an extreme amount of algae, not good for corals.

I agree I had struggled with hair algae and bryopsis for about 5 months. Each week picking out the algae and a week later comes back stronger than ever. I talked with my LFS and they recommended fluconozale and I used it and the algae is gone. Those photos are about 3 weeks old. New photos below.

 

[nickenayat]

 

[CHSUB]

Imo a chemical, fluconozale, that kills algae can’t be good for corals. Regardless your parameters look acceptable, I personally prefer lower no3. My advice is always build a healthy ecosystem and corals take care of themselves: feed fish and coral heavy, export all detritus with WC, control algae with CUC and manual removal, and do it consistently over and over.