Lps no growth

[Hunt3r]

Hi i would like to get some advise with my tank. I have my tank for 3 months already but all my livestocks i have it for more that 7 months. So that being said i have torch, hammers, acans, duncan, blasto, motipora, acro, soft corals. I never had any growth with my blasto hammer and torch. And my acans growing on a slower rate(1-2 head in a span of 6 months.) duncan and monti have the biggest growth of all. Im also feeding mysis and reef chili 2x a week and reef fuel 2x week.

My current build
20g tank
Ai prime 8hrs on
Rw4
Aqualcear 50 (floss, purigen, carbon)
50w heater
Manual top off

Other livestock
Pair of clown
Clown goby
Firefish
6line wrasse

6 snail turbo and astrea
6 hermits
Peppermint shrimp.

Parameters
1.026 sg
1450 mg
430 ca
3.5 alk
.1 po4
>10 no3
8 ph
78' temp.

 

[Hunt3r]

 

[ritter6788]

Many LPS are just slow growers compared to softies or SPS. I had heads of LPS for years that rarely added new heads or eyes. All depends on the coral. Your water can be spot on but a slow growing LPS can take years to show results.

 

[DSC reef]

Is your alk measured in dkh or ppm?

 

[Hunt3r]

Is your alk measured in dkh or ppm?

9.9dkh

 

[ChiCity]

I'm not saying you should have growth with dirtier water, but lps/zoas/softies all love dirty water!
You don't want your params to be perfect, like in an sps' system, but more nutrient rich...
It really helps them explode in growth!

 

[Hunt3r]

I'm not saying you should have growth with dirtier water, but lps/zoas/softies all love dirty water!
You don't want your params to be perfect, like in an sps' system, but more nutrient rich...
It really helps them explode in growth!

I have some acro too like sshortcake and some red planet frags. Im not sure they are going to like dirty water although they hate my water and not the are browning out. But now my po4 getting high last time me and my lfs check it was on .15 so its on a high side already. I tried phosguard but after 2 days one of my acans shrunk so i pulled it out. Im thinking of using red sea nopox but pfs said its useless without a skimmer since i dont have skimmer. So just keeping up with 20% water change.