First some backstory on the tank
The tank has been up and running for just over a year and at first the acros were growing and everything was doing great but for about 2 months now one by one the acros have been fading away. They first stop showing polyp extension then slowly fade in color days later to eventually have the skin just falls off. Im thinking it could be that my nutrients are just too low.
I took the refugium and skimmer off line last night and fed a second time with pellets yesterday in attempt to raise the nutrients over the next few days. My train of thought is that my refugium may be functioning too well and reducing my nutrients too low. i plan on turning the skimmer back on later today but leaving the fuge off until i start seeing some nutrients.
the tank is just shy of 80 gallon water volume.
light: 4 bulb ati with 6 nanobox arrays
flow: 2 mp10s
skimmer: vertex 180i skimmer
refugium: kessil h380 with chaeto. the kessil h380 runs from 11pm-11am
feeding regiment: i feed 1/2 a cube of frozen per day and a auto feeder feeds pellets once a day.
current tank parameters:
salinity: 33
ph: 7.7-8
alkalinity 8
calcium: 470
magnesium: na
no3:0
po4:0
(im testing with salifert and hanana)
questions i need answered.....
The tank has been up and running for just over a year and at first the acros were growing and everything was doing great but for about 2 months now one by one the acros have been fading away. They first stop showing polyp extension then slowly fade in color days later to eventually have the skin just falls off. Im thinking it could be that my nutrients are just too low.
I took the refugium and skimmer off line last night and fed a second time with pellets yesterday in attempt to raise the nutrients over the next few days. My train of thought is that my refugium may be functioning too well and reducing my nutrients too low. i plan on turning the skimmer back on later today but leaving the fuge off until i start seeing some nutrients.
the tank is just shy of 80 gallon water volume.
light: 4 bulb ati with 6 nanobox arrays
flow: 2 mp10s
skimmer: vertex 180i skimmer
refugium: kessil h380 with chaeto. the kessil h380 runs from 11pm-11am
feeding regiment: i feed 1/2 a cube of frozen per day and a auto feeder feeds pellets once a day.
current tank parameters:
salinity: 33
ph: 7.7-8
alkalinity 8
calcium: 470
magnesium: na
no3:0
po4:0
(im testing with salifert and hanana)
questions i need answered.....
- if i use spectracide stump remover. at what rate should i use it? do you dilute it in rodi water? if so at what ratio?
- can i raise po4 and no3 at the same time? could i dose spectracide and something like Seachem Flourish Phosphorus at the same time or should i wait in between dosing the 2? how does 1 effect the other?
- what should be my primary goal? raising my po4 first or raising my no3?
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