Hello,
I have had tropical fresh water aquariums for decades, but decided to finally make the jump into marine.
My new tank is the Superfish Home 110 (26gal), and the LED lighting is great. The internal filter is fairly good, but I have added an additional large external filter Jebao 502 to keep the water crystal clear and healthy.
I have been running it for about 5 weeks now, 2 weeks with the addition of coralline live rock which has some GSP, mushrooms and two large feather worms as well as lots of those tiny ones that are multiplying in the sand, and last week I added some green/blue Duncans and a torch. All is growing fine except my Mushrooms and the Torch turned from purplish blue to brown (seem to be growing in size though).
All parameters check out except pH which is at 7.6. I have ordered the required tetra product to raise the pH to 8.3, but my worry is that this change will affect the corals and nematodes. Can anyone here please advise if I should do this gradually?
Also, with regard the browning coral, I've read the cause can be a number of things. Temp is set at 26, salinity is set at 1.026, nitrite and nitrate are almost zero, and I added coralline purple cx for trace minerals.
I want to get it perfect before adding fish and inverts. Any advice?
Thanks
Scott
I have had tropical fresh water aquariums for decades, but decided to finally make the jump into marine.
My new tank is the Superfish Home 110 (26gal), and the LED lighting is great. The internal filter is fairly good, but I have added an additional large external filter Jebao 502 to keep the water crystal clear and healthy.
I have been running it for about 5 weeks now, 2 weeks with the addition of coralline live rock which has some GSP, mushrooms and two large feather worms as well as lots of those tiny ones that are multiplying in the sand, and last week I added some green/blue Duncans and a torch. All is growing fine except my Mushrooms and the Torch turned from purplish blue to brown (seem to be growing in size though).
All parameters check out except pH which is at 7.6. I have ordered the required tetra product to raise the pH to 8.3, but my worry is that this change will affect the corals and nematodes. Can anyone here please advise if I should do this gradually?
Also, with regard the browning coral, I've read the cause can be a number of things. Temp is set at 26, salinity is set at 1.026, nitrite and nitrate are almost zero, and I added coralline purple cx for trace minerals.
I want to get it perfect before adding fish and inverts. Any advice?
Thanks
Scott