Upgraded from an established Biocube 29g to a 75g with sump about a little over a week ago. After talking with other reefers I used some existing tank water, rocks, and Seachem matrix (filter media) with new sand and some extra bacteria dose. All of my coral (mainly Zoas, a torch, a Duncan, waving hands, and GSP) are pretty clenched up but fish seem to be happy.
Do corals just need more time to acclimate and time for nitrates to build up a little bit for them? Just trying to limit risk of any die off. My GSP, just started opening back up yesterday/today. Also, is it possible it’s from lighting being too much or too little? I’m running 2 Ai primes on a 36x24. There’s so many things that can affect them in a new tank I don’t want to end up curing them to death when all they needed was time
Tested levels and Phosphate is high @ .39. Added phosguard to help bring levels down
Temp: 78.5
PH: 8.3
Alk: 9.7
Phosphorous: 129 .39 converted to phosphate
Calcium: 517
Salinity: 1.027 (added RO water since
Am: 0
Nitrite: O
Nitrate: 1-2
Do corals just need more time to acclimate and time for nitrates to build up a little bit for them? Just trying to limit risk of any die off. My GSP, just started opening back up yesterday/today. Also, is it possible it’s from lighting being too much or too little? I’m running 2 Ai primes on a 36x24. There’s so many things that can affect them in a new tank I don’t want to end up curing them to death when all they needed was time
Tested levels and Phosphate is high @ .39. Added phosguard to help bring levels down
Temp: 78.5
PH: 8.3
Alk: 9.7
Phosphorous: 129 .39 converted to phosphate
Calcium: 517
Salinity: 1.027 (added RO water since
Am: 0
Nitrite: O
Nitrate: 1-2
Last edited:
