Hello!!!

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Welcome to Reef2Reef! You are the second member from Poland in a couple of days! I'm not well versed in Zoas but I find flow, lighting, and pests play a big part in polyps staying open or closed.

 

[phillyb614]

 

[shakacuz]

welcome aboard the r2r board. hello from PA!

 

[Brisk]

Welcome!

 

[Łukasz]

Hello!!!

Please check the pictures of my aquarium and tell me if you think that I need to change something.
I use red sea 90 LED, below you have schedule, but right now is in acclimation mode because I bought 4 new frags.

I don't think that is light because I don't change it for a long time and my hammer was fully open - please check the old picture.

I ordered the Icp test to know exacly whats going on and unfortunetly I don't have par meter.
I will do a 50l water change today and again the same for 2 days, maybe this will help a little bit.

 

[Łukasz]

Welcome! Sorry to hear you are having a couple problems, without totally seeing your whole setup. Your numbers are a little high but you are working on them. I wonder about your lighting. If I put my hammers in too strong of light they are not as puffy. And sps bleaching may mean too much light. Do you know your par. If not may not hurt to try and move the corals bleaching or not opening as much lower down In the tank. The zoas though, I have had new zoas not open for a couple weeks,(and they turned out fine just needed time) I’m not too sure on the zoas if nothing is obviously bugging them. Good luck hang in there

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Welcome to Reef2Reef! You are the second member from Poland in a couple of days! I'm not well versed in Zoas but I find flow, lighting, and pests play a big part in polyps staying open or closed.

I dont think its lights they are red sea 90 and I dont use them on full. Flow is the same from the beginning and you can see on my pictures hammer month ago and right now. I dip this coral in hydrogen peroxide 3% and later in rtn stn x. I found this dip on youtube, but still looks the same.
Today I saw that frag which I bought week ago start loosing the flesh.
I've done ICP test and Im waiting for results.

 

[FindinNemo]

Welcome to R2R!!

 

[eggie]

Welcome to Reef2Reef

My suggestion is try buying Tropic Marine Hydrometer

Messzylinder und Präzisions-Aräometer/hy | Produktinformationen

www.tropic-marin-smartinfo.com

Make sure you have the correct Salinity
Dont dose Alkalnity as I find it to high
Try changing to the Red Sea Blue Bucket instead of using the black one

 

[Psyduck]

 

[Dmmz]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Łukasz]

Welcome to Reef2Reef

My suggestion is try buying Tropic Marine Hydrometer

Messzylinder und Präzisions-Aräometer/hy | Produktinformationen

www.tropic-marin-smartinfo.com

Make sure you have the correct Salinity
Dont dose Alkalnity as I find it to high
Try changing to the Red Sea Blue Bucket instead of using the black one

Hi,

Salinity is correct. I use hanna checker and ATC salinity refractometer. Both are calibrated and its the same 34.8 salinity. If I stop dosing Alkalinity my calcium and magnesium will go up I think?
For sure I will change salt for blue backet because calcium is very high and I don't know why.
Red Sea pro salt should have 450 calcium 1350 Magnesium and 11.5 alkalinity.
From my testing I have calcium around 500 and sometimes 520, magnesium is 1420 but alkalinity going down thats why I think that I must dose alkalinity to go down with calcium and magnesium.
I use hanna for all my parameters and for only Ph and Ammonia I use salifert.

 

[Buckster]

Hello and Welcome to R2R!

 

[CoralB]

Welcome !! :cool: