ldreefer
Active Member
I've had my tank up for about 3 months or so now - before that my dad had it up for years and everything was transferred over. I say that just to make it known that it's not really only 3 months old. It's a Red Sea Reefer 350 with 2 MaxSpect Jump 165 led's and it has a refugium and a Reefer skimmer. Stock list is 2 clowns, a matted filefish and a leopard wrasse.
Anyways, I have a bunch of zoas, a couple of acans, a chalice and a montipora in the tank as my first few pieces of coral. The zoas are all ok, but aren't showing the best colors. The Acans and Montipora are declining - the Acans are all receded into their skeleton and don't extend. The chalice has completely died at this point.
I have been pretty religious about testing and have posted my results from Apex below over the past month or so - all my testing has been with Hannah checkers and a refractometer for salinity. My pH hovers in the 7.95 to 8.10 range, but not sure how accurate my probe is. Salinity has stayed at 1.029, which I intend on lowering over the course of the next few weeks - I didn't realize I forgot to calibrate my refractometer, so it was reading lower than actual.
My levels have all been good, the only thing I noticed was that my nitrates have stayed pretty low, basically 0 at some points, while my phosphates were in the .08ppm range at one point. I add a bag of rowaphos once I saw the high phosphates and have done a 10% water change since then, but I still haven't seen any improvement in the corals yet.
I could use some help figuring out the cause.
Anyways, I have a bunch of zoas, a couple of acans, a chalice and a montipora in the tank as my first few pieces of coral. The zoas are all ok, but aren't showing the best colors. The Acans and Montipora are declining - the Acans are all receded into their skeleton and don't extend. The chalice has completely died at this point.
I have been pretty religious about testing and have posted my results from Apex below over the past month or so - all my testing has been with Hannah checkers and a refractometer for salinity. My pH hovers in the 7.95 to 8.10 range, but not sure how accurate my probe is. Salinity has stayed at 1.029, which I intend on lowering over the course of the next few weeks - I didn't realize I forgot to calibrate my refractometer, so it was reading lower than actual.
My levels have all been good, the only thing I noticed was that my nitrates have stayed pretty low, basically 0 at some points, while my phosphates were in the .08ppm range at one point. I add a bag of rowaphos once I saw the high phosphates and have done a 10% water change since then, but I still haven't seen any improvement in the corals yet.
I could use some help figuring out the cause.
