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Missed almost half the fishCan see quite few fish.
5 anthias
Royal grammar
Leopard wrasse ?
Corus wrasse
Some kind foxface?
Pj cardinal
Purple tang
Some kind black clown possibly
So some nice fish there and to my untrained eye looks ok,little clean of glass and some nice corals in there.
What you struggling with most?
Fish or coral losses? or diatoms or dino's seems to come up often.
Keeping parameters stable maybe
Sorry i trying to slowly get info from you ha ha ^_^
Missed it but of course I'm using RO/DI.Again: tap water? RODI?
Coraline is hard to scrape off with those magnet dealies. Get a hard-edged acrylic scraper, or use a razor blade. Some people use old credit cards.
Any chance any of your test kits have expired?
What light do you have?
Have any corals lived?
Any invertebrates?
Any chance the tank was dosed with a copper-based or similar medication?
I have had a little blue tuxedo this whole time. Wouldn't go without one! Honestly if the giant flipper blade isn't doing it I don't know how much a razor with a handle would. Maybe I'm wrong on that though. I appreciate you walking through some troubleshooting with me, sorry it wasn't fruitful.That's some weird coraline. Maybe pick up a tuxedo urchin- they'll eat a bit of coraline, and are usually reef-safe, aside from picking up and moving small coral frags. If it makes a dent, you could try a couple more.
Also, they make razor blade holders, handle things. You might need one of those.
Beyond that, I got nothin', sorry. But this should be fixable.
What corals have stayed alive? That might be helpful.
Your parameters look good, I would start off with sending a water sample in to get tested to make sure you don't have any heavy metals and such in the tank.Lol I thought this got closed. Thanks everyone. Here it is today. :\
Parameters:
Alk: 8.0
Calc: 440
Nitrate: 5-10
Phos: 0.05-0.08
Mag: 1250
Problems:
Corals all shrivel and die, nothing grows. Glass algae is unbelievably thick and almost impossible to remove. Been like this for 4 years straight. I'm really sorry everyone I'm just so bummed at this point and I don't know what else to do.
I just got an Oceamo test back and had 170ug/l aluminum. This is probably from the phosguard reactor I've been running for the last 6 months. It's obviously been removed and waterchanged back down to a reasonable level. The problems predate using phosguard by years though.Your parameters look good, I would start off with sending a water sample in to get tested to make sure you don't have any heavy metals and such in the tank.
How many fish? And turn gyre down, get rid of chaeto and check tank in a weekParameters:
Alk: 8.0
Calc: 440
Nitrate: 5-10
Phos: 0.05-0.08
Mag: 1250
Problems:
Corals all shrivel and die, nothing grows. Glass algae is unbelievably thick and almost impossible to remove. Been like this for 4 years straight. I'm really sorry everyone I'm just so bummed at this point and I don't know what else to do.
Equipment:
4 x AI Hydra 26 HD
150g/day BRS RO/DI
Bubble Magus medium filter roller
RO 200Int skimmer
BRS 1.1ml dosers with timers
BRS 2-part soda ash and calcium chloride
Large gyre on weir-end
2x H80 growing chaeto in fuge
10-15. Why would I want less flow and no fuge?How many fish? And turn gyre down, get rid of chaeto and check tank in a week
For your coraline on glass this is what I use. the flipper blade doesn't get all of mine. This does. Your tank is too beautiful to give up. Give it and the folks here time to find the issue.
I started my soon to be old tank in early 2018. Only softies survived and my toadstools. In 2020 I did a reboot--removed sand and added new. Took a year to get nutrients down (with 100% water change) and algae gone. A year ending last month!!! Also, once I removed a massive toadstool, now I have lps and sps surviving where before only hardy softies. So for my tank with corals, it was the huge leather giving off toxins that killed any lps or sps. Took me 2 years to figure that out and the loss of every new coral I tried to add.
Don't give up. Sit back, and let R2R help