Feel like quitting 2 years almost no growth please help sps dominate

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You all will need to remove the clouds and see if the growth slows back down again. So many times, the last thing that people do on their tanks made such a huge difference when it was more likely just a bit more maturity and time that did it. ...not always, but enough to not minimize the timing over the actual change.
No sir.
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@Chaswood79 what % are you running your clouds now? I’m at 10%. My acros have been growing like crazy since I finally figured out the calcium reactor and lowering par just a bit
Uhh...
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Ok so all my peaks and valleys are 30 minutes
Meaning they drop down for 10 minutes, stay there for 10 minutes and ramp up for 10 minutes.

Lights turn on at 12:30 and ramp up to 375 par from 2:40pm-3:20
Drops to 330 from 3:20-3:50
Up to 400 from 3:50-4:20
Drops to 315 from 4:20-4:50
Up to 450 from 4:50-5:20
Drops to 300 from 5:20-5:50
Up to 450 at 5:50-6:30
Drops to 300 from 6:30-7:00
Up to 450 from 7:00-7:40
Down to 315 from 7:40-8:10
Up to 400 from 8:10-8:50
Down to 330 from 8:50-9:20
Up to 375 9:20-10:20 and ramps down to 0 from there until 12:30 am
 

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I wonder what happened to the OP

I would hazard a guess that reality happened to him/her when comparing progression pics on the Acros.

Really hope OP is still pumped though bc I think this rig has TOTM potential. But it's gonna take another yr of awesome to get there vs a few wks with cloud settings on.

A 25% boost like OP saw in alk consumption is a big accomplishment but that piece of data is kinda ball game.


Caps and bird nest are gonna use more of that than the Acros and Coraline picked up as well. But even a 25% increase in alk demand by small acro frags will be hard to see this fast IMO

Acros grow really F'N slow. This was a dialed in tank so they were only growing F'N slow. Now this killer tank has been performance tuned so growth has improved to just slow.

But I think the hope here was that somehow they would start growing fast. That's a tall order 1.5yrs in on a tank to me.
 
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I really hope OP stays excited bc this tank is gonna be absolutely nutty next yr.

Might be beneficial to get into the photography aspect.

But it's going to be hard to validate the assumption that started this thread (below) without quadrupling alk demand:

"This is why I complained , this is what I see in other people’s tanks , wall to wall sps in a year is beyond do able I’ve seen it way to many times"
 
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Well I hope the OP is still in it. That tank is holding its own and I'd be over the moon for something with that success. Now on my end I get to compare these types of tanks to mine which is sps demise. To the point I no longer waste money buying corals as I only get a few months of enjoyment if that from them. Hope you're in it buddy. That tank is still a stunner. It's all perspective.
 

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I just had a kind of ah ha moment , a month or two ago , I totally forgot to clean all my power heads , I noticed this because my sand was getting dirtier then I like , the gyres where so clogged , but I remember saying a week or two before the cleaning , wow my corals are really growing ... hmmmmmm I wonder
I'm following along here great thread. We might have the same problem. What is your total turnover ?
 
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