Coral Shrinking

[Aries360]

Ok guys I’m in need of help. Backstory, mainly FOWLR mostly. Added a few coral pieces here and there but my main desire it’s lots of fish which I’m ok with. I’ve never been super good at keeping coral. BUT, the itch finally got me. I can grow cabbage leathers great and some mushrooms and my new frogspawn is doing great. Xenia dies, gsp dies. Kenya and sinularia trees shrink up and eventually dies. cinnamon polyps shrinking. Lights I’ve got half setting cause I switched from hydra 52 to radions xr30blues to try, It’s a 360 g with 50g sump. Now key takeaways. High bioload and no matter how many water changes I do phosphate is always 0.6132ppm. (Hanna checker ULR) probably highest it will go. And for the most part I usually have nitrates super high. All other chemicals on par with NSR (south Florida living) No I’m not getting rid of fish. About every month I change out 275 gallons of NSW (corals don’t do any better). I just added Kolar hc gfo 5 days ago, 200g then another 200g 2 days ago. Hasn’t made a dent in phosphates . The only thing my local shops can find is high phosphates and high nitrates. I have two uv lights a large skimmer and recently switched from chaeto to algae scrubber. Over the years I tried all sorts of reef foods and give up. My friends use the same water (NSW) that I get and don’t have to dose at all)

 

[ScRmptisSnkhds723]

Ok guys I’m in need of help. Backstory, mainly FOWLR mostly. Added a few coral pieces here and there but my main desire it’s lots of fish which I’m ok with. I’ve never been super good at keeping coral. BUT, the itch finally got me. I can grow cabbage leathers great and some mushrooms and my new frogspawn is doing great. Xenia dies, gsp dies. Kenya and sinularia trees shrink up and eventually dies. cinnamon polyps shrinking. Lights I’ve got half setting cause I switched from hydra 52 to radions xr30blues to try, It’s a 360 g with 50g sump. Now key takeaways. High bioload and no matter how many water changes I do phosphate is always 0.6132ppm. (Hanna checker ULR) probably highest it will go. And for the most part I usually have nitrates super high. All other chemicals on par with NSR (south Florida living) No I’m not getting rid of fish. About every month I change out 275 gallons of NSW (corals don’t do any better). I just added Kolar hc gfo 5 days ago, 200g then another 200g 2 days ago. Hasn’t made a dent in phosphates . The only thing my local shops can find is high phosphates and high nitrates. I have two uv lights a large skimmer and recently switched from chaeto to algae scrubber. Over the years I tried all sorts of reef foods and give up. My friends use the same water (NSW) that I get and don’t have to dose at all)

What are ur parameters? Eg Ca, Mg,No3,KH? ( I also have struggled with gsp even I can keep most soft and lps and can't quite find the reason)

 

[Aries360]

What are ur parameters? Eg Ca, Mg,No3,KH? ( I also have struggled with gsp even I can keep most soft and lps and can't quite find the reason)

Not sure trace elements like that: I’d have to send out to get tested . But I’m right on par with natural sea water as I get it directly from my ocean and I change out all but maybe 50-75 gallons of water