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I know you guy seen my multiple posts regarding my tank here, and i do apologize for my mutiple threads. I thought i wont be struggling as bad with this hobby but im badly.
So moral of the story i started this marine x60.2 37 gallons & 18 gallons sump 3 months ago. I cycled the tank with fritz ammonia, and bacteria. I monitored my cycle everyday till it ended, and i added 2 darwin clownfish.
Now 2 months after that i added corals. I went a little overboard with corals. And i added a bunch at once. I have duncan, zoas, hammer, leather, mushroom, and gsp.
Now the issues im facing with my corals are the hammer is not exntending anymore, and the duncan is not opening anymore. Im going to be posting pictures below for before and after.
I use RODI water 6 stage by brs. And i have a tds pen to confirm and built in tds meter.
For the lighting im using xr15 g5 radion. Running at 65% intensity. And i oreviously rented a par meter to check on my corals.
Right now this is my water parameters.
Alk is 7.2 ( tropic marin salt)
Calcium is 450 (salifret)
Magnesium 1600+ (salifret)
Alk is 7.1 (hanna checker)
Salinity 1.026 (milwaukee digital calibrated by RODI)
Temp: 77F
Phosphate was 0, and nitrate 0. But i started to dose those again, and now im at 0.01 phosphate and 4 nitrate.
Could that be the reason my hammer not extending anymore? Because the nitrate and phosphate were 0? And now it should be good again after dosing? Im dosing by brightwell for nitrate, and phosphate should i keep doing it?
So moral of the story i started this marine x60.2 37 gallons & 18 gallons sump 3 months ago. I cycled the tank with fritz ammonia, and bacteria. I monitored my cycle everyday till it ended, and i added 2 darwin clownfish.
Now 2 months after that i added corals. I went a little overboard with corals. And i added a bunch at once. I have duncan, zoas, hammer, leather, mushroom, and gsp.
Now the issues im facing with my corals are the hammer is not exntending anymore, and the duncan is not opening anymore. Im going to be posting pictures below for before and after.
I use RODI water 6 stage by brs. And i have a tds pen to confirm and built in tds meter.
For the lighting im using xr15 g5 radion. Running at 65% intensity. And i oreviously rented a par meter to check on my corals.
Right now this is my water parameters.
Alk is 7.2 ( tropic marin salt)
Calcium is 450 (salifret)
Magnesium 1600+ (salifret)
Alk is 7.1 (hanna checker)
Salinity 1.026 (milwaukee digital calibrated by RODI)
Temp: 77F
Phosphate was 0, and nitrate 0. But i started to dose those again, and now im at 0.01 phosphate and 4 nitrate.
Could that be the reason my hammer not extending anymore? Because the nitrate and phosphate were 0? And now it should be good again after dosing? Im dosing by brightwell for nitrate, and phosphate should i keep doing it?