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As long as your water column isn't as dirty as what is in your bucket the detritus isn't the issue.
Your Alk is higher than it needs to be and your Calcium is low, but this could be within your test kit accuracy as well. Really need to know what your Nitrates are.
If you have gone a full 1.5yrs with no Coraline growth, it sounds like you also have a Light issue and possible flow. What are you using for lights and are they the same over the entire 1.5yrs?
As long as your water column isn't as dirty as what is in your bucket the detritus isn't the issue.
Your Alk is higher than it needs to be and your Calcium is low, but this could be within your test kit accuracy as well. Really need to know what your Nitrates are.
If you have gone a full 1.5yrs with no Coraline growth, it sounds like you also have a Light issue and possible flow. What are you using for lights and are they the same over the entire 1.5yrs?
No to both. See post above on lighting.Curious about lighting as well. Are you carbon dosing or using gfo?
Unfortunately my Mag reagent is expired. Can't imagine it being being off with nothing to consume it. I dont dose and haven't doses in this tank.Also what’s your mag at. If mag is totally off alk and calcium can’t be used properly.
It was set with dry rock, but I've had snails with coraline and countless "seasoned" frag plugs make their way into the tank over the year and a half. I mean, I have sponges amd various dusters and worms naturally propogating in the tank.Have you taken any steps to seed the tank and rock with bacterial, micro fauna and coralline? Sounds like a tank that was setup with dry rock.? Your alk and cal are not in balance thats for sure, 9.5 dkh and 390 ppm is a bit off. Raise cal to 410-420 ppm to get it in balance with your alk. Knowing your no3 and mag is important as well. Po4 at 0.11 ppm is not an issue.
50g cube. This dry rock was formerly my live rock. It sun baked and soaked in water for 5 months. It then cycled in the tank for 4 months. At this point it has been in the tank for 1.5 years.What is the size of the tank? I don’t see any obvious red flag. Dry rock is notorious for leeching po4 but I wouldn’t freak out about anything less than 0.2 ppm. Have you checked for stray voltage?