Hello team,
First post here. Hoping to get some help with multiple corals dying. 67 gallon tank started beginning of January. I’ve got a bunch of zoas that are doing great and a GSP that’s doing well also. Everything else I’ve put in the tank seems to slowly die. Multiple LPS (two chalices, cyphastrea, blastomussa, lepto, favia) as well as SPS (anacropora, birds nest, stylocoeniella). Most of them just seem to slowly recede. I do have a frogspawn that seems to be doing well
parameters:
Salinity 1.025 with osmolator ATO
temp 78.5-80
Alk runs around 8.5-9.5
Calcium 400-420. Both on apex DOS
Mag 1250-1350
Phosphate usually around 0.05 to 0.01 PPM
I have an apex par meter and substrate is around 100-150 at peak hours and top of aqua scape is around 200-250
Running a 12 hour light cycle with about 4 hour ramp up and 3 hour ramp down
Sump includes filter socks cleaned twice a week, refugium running opposite DT light cycle. Skimmer with CO2 scrubber and pH has been fairly stable at 8.3.
corals all get dipped with Red Sea dipX
I did iodine dip a few of them which didn’t seem to make much of a difference.
flow: mp40 and mp 10 on opposite sides of tank. Reef mode during the day and lagoon at night. Mp40 running at 40% and mp 10 at 50%.
not sure if there’s anything else or if anyone can spot any glaring errors but any suggestions would be appreciated. First tank and getting very frustrated.
do have a few fish doing very well (clowns, melanarus wrasse, lawnmower blenny, two spot tang)
also have a cleaner shrimp and one peppermint shrimp (don’t think that’s the problem, issues started well before he was in there)….
sorry for the long post!
First post here. Hoping to get some help with multiple corals dying. 67 gallon tank started beginning of January. I’ve got a bunch of zoas that are doing great and a GSP that’s doing well also. Everything else I’ve put in the tank seems to slowly die. Multiple LPS (two chalices, cyphastrea, blastomussa, lepto, favia) as well as SPS (anacropora, birds nest, stylocoeniella). Most of them just seem to slowly recede. I do have a frogspawn that seems to be doing well
parameters:
Salinity 1.025 with osmolator ATO
temp 78.5-80
Alk runs around 8.5-9.5
Calcium 400-420. Both on apex DOS
Mag 1250-1350
Phosphate usually around 0.05 to 0.01 PPM
I have an apex par meter and substrate is around 100-150 at peak hours and top of aqua scape is around 200-250
Running a 12 hour light cycle with about 4 hour ramp up and 3 hour ramp down
Sump includes filter socks cleaned twice a week, refugium running opposite DT light cycle. Skimmer with CO2 scrubber and pH has been fairly stable at 8.3.
corals all get dipped with Red Sea dipX
I did iodine dip a few of them which didn’t seem to make much of a difference.
flow: mp40 and mp 10 on opposite sides of tank. Reef mode during the day and lagoon at night. Mp40 running at 40% and mp 10 at 50%.
not sure if there’s anything else or if anyone can spot any glaring errors but any suggestions would be appreciated. First tank and getting very frustrated.
do have a few fish doing very well (clowns, melanarus wrasse, lawnmower blenny, two spot tang)
also have a cleaner shrimp and one peppermint shrimp (don’t think that’s the problem, issues started well before he was in there)….
sorry for the long post!