Any help/advice would be much appreciated... System Specs are-
A. Total water volume ( Please include sump, etc.)
29 Gallon Biocube (rimless)
B. What are your parameters? ( CA, ALK, PO4,Salinity, etc.)
ALK-8.5
CA-425
MG- 1300
NO3- <1 about .2-.5
PO4- .04 (Hanna Checker)
Salinity- 1.026
C. Type of lighting. Please include age, watts, and bulb/ballast name.
AI Nano Blue LED- 4.5 inches from water surface
Light comes on at 11 AM ramps up to 90% all 3 channels W/B/RB over 180 mins. It holds there til 8 PM then ramps down to moonlights for 180 mins. Just today turned the lights down to 75% to see if it helps the lightening of colors. When colors were best I was in the process of acclimating the corals in question to the AI NANO LED and started at 40% and slowly increased.
D. Filtration method (Skimmer, GFO, DSB, etc.)
Aquamaxx HOB-1 Skimmer
BRS GFO in Reactor
BRS ROX carbon in bag place in InTank media basket
Chaeto in InTank media basket
E. What types of corals do you keep other than SPS?
Acans,Zoas,Palys,Shrooms, Cyphastrea
F. How long has the tank been running?
8 Months
G. What are you dosing? Dosing schedule?
BRS 2 Part Recipe 1
Bubble Magus Dosing pump both ALK and CA every two hours automatically spread an hour apart from one another.
MG every once and a while by hand
Every once in a while I will add some Salifert aminos and BA KoralColor
Also added some Dr Tims waste away the past couple weeks to help cyano on back wall (worked for me in the past)
H. Which brand of salt are you using?
Red Sea Coral Salt- NOT CORAL PRO SALT the regular Red Sea salt
I. What brand of test kits are you employing?
Salifert for everything except Phosphates which are checked with Hanna Green egg ULR checker phosporous checker then converted to phosphate.
J. What are you using for CA/ALK supplementation?
BRS Recipe 1
K. What are you using for flow? (Pump names, how many, placement, etc.)
Vortech MP10 on ReefCrest mode, Hydor EVO Nano 425. MP10 is on side of tank Koralia is on opposite side and blows behind rocks (just added the koralia this week) Plan on adding another Hydor nano 425 and placing it on opposite wall of MP10
For the Past couple months my acros colors have been fading with the exception of my Garf Bonsai, Neptune Blue Mille, and rainbow monti. Purple is holding well on the Garf and the blue is great on the mille and the rainbow monti looks better than ever. I am losing color primarily on my green slimer, J Fox Unknown acro, and Nicks purple green acro. Coralline algae in the tank is also turning white in the centers with purple edges. I am also experiencing retracted polyps on slimer (barely any) and the blue mille (no PE at all). Both the blue mille and green slimer used to have amazing PE about 2 months ago day and night and it has slowly faded about the same time the colors began to fade. One day the polyps were retracted and have not come out since. That was about a month ago maybe 3 weeks. There is no PE now at night or day. The garf bonsai still puts its polyps out but not as much as it used to.... it is definately reduced extension. I recently added 3 frags- Tyree Rainbow Stylo, Pink lemonade, Superman Mille that all are currently being light acclimated about 1/3 of the ways up in the tank. They all have good PE especially the Stylo. I feel like all this started when I switched from Kent Reef Salt to Red Sea Salt about 2 months ago began dosing with the bubble magus and running GFO in a reactor. A Cyano outbreak is what lead to the GFO reactor purchase. The only reason I switched salts was the CA was soooo high in kent and was much more expensive than the big bucket of Red Sea salt which had much more desirable levels.
Zoas, Palys, Acans all are growing and colored but the growth on the zoas has slowed down. Acans all show great extension on feeder tentacles.
Small amount of brown slimy algae and cyano on the back wall but none on the rocks or sand. Sand is very clean.
Here are some pics of the Slimer in question to help... Thanks again anyone who can lend some advice. I can not figure out what is out of whack. Below the slimer is an epic chaos frag from ReefPets that has also shown extremely decreased polyp extension. It used to be hairy now the polyps only come out in the shaded areas of the frag.
Bali Slimer 2-3 months ago
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A. Total water volume ( Please include sump, etc.)
29 Gallon Biocube (rimless)
B. What are your parameters? ( CA, ALK, PO4,Salinity, etc.)
ALK-8.5
CA-425
MG- 1300
NO3- <1 about .2-.5
PO4- .04 (Hanna Checker)
Salinity- 1.026
C. Type of lighting. Please include age, watts, and bulb/ballast name.
AI Nano Blue LED- 4.5 inches from water surface
Light comes on at 11 AM ramps up to 90% all 3 channels W/B/RB over 180 mins. It holds there til 8 PM then ramps down to moonlights for 180 mins. Just today turned the lights down to 75% to see if it helps the lightening of colors. When colors were best I was in the process of acclimating the corals in question to the AI NANO LED and started at 40% and slowly increased.
D. Filtration method (Skimmer, GFO, DSB, etc.)
Aquamaxx HOB-1 Skimmer
BRS GFO in Reactor
BRS ROX carbon in bag place in InTank media basket
Chaeto in InTank media basket
E. What types of corals do you keep other than SPS?
Acans,Zoas,Palys,Shrooms, Cyphastrea
F. How long has the tank been running?
8 Months
G. What are you dosing? Dosing schedule?
BRS 2 Part Recipe 1
Bubble Magus Dosing pump both ALK and CA every two hours automatically spread an hour apart from one another.
MG every once and a while by hand
Every once in a while I will add some Salifert aminos and BA KoralColor
Also added some Dr Tims waste away the past couple weeks to help cyano on back wall (worked for me in the past)
H. Which brand of salt are you using?
Red Sea Coral Salt- NOT CORAL PRO SALT the regular Red Sea salt
I. What brand of test kits are you employing?
Salifert for everything except Phosphates which are checked with Hanna Green egg ULR checker phosporous checker then converted to phosphate.
J. What are you using for CA/ALK supplementation?
BRS Recipe 1
K. What are you using for flow? (Pump names, how many, placement, etc.)
Vortech MP10 on ReefCrest mode, Hydor EVO Nano 425. MP10 is on side of tank Koralia is on opposite side and blows behind rocks (just added the koralia this week) Plan on adding another Hydor nano 425 and placing it on opposite wall of MP10
For the Past couple months my acros colors have been fading with the exception of my Garf Bonsai, Neptune Blue Mille, and rainbow monti. Purple is holding well on the Garf and the blue is great on the mille and the rainbow monti looks better than ever. I am losing color primarily on my green slimer, J Fox Unknown acro, and Nicks purple green acro. Coralline algae in the tank is also turning white in the centers with purple edges. I am also experiencing retracted polyps on slimer (barely any) and the blue mille (no PE at all). Both the blue mille and green slimer used to have amazing PE about 2 months ago day and night and it has slowly faded about the same time the colors began to fade. One day the polyps were retracted and have not come out since. That was about a month ago maybe 3 weeks. There is no PE now at night or day. The garf bonsai still puts its polyps out but not as much as it used to.... it is definately reduced extension. I recently added 3 frags- Tyree Rainbow Stylo, Pink lemonade, Superman Mille that all are currently being light acclimated about 1/3 of the ways up in the tank. They all have good PE especially the Stylo. I feel like all this started when I switched from Kent Reef Salt to Red Sea Salt about 2 months ago began dosing with the bubble magus and running GFO in a reactor. A Cyano outbreak is what lead to the GFO reactor purchase. The only reason I switched salts was the CA was soooo high in kent and was much more expensive than the big bucket of Red Sea salt which had much more desirable levels.
Zoas, Palys, Acans all are growing and colored but the growth on the zoas has slowed down. Acans all show great extension on feeder tentacles.
Small amount of brown slimy algae and cyano on the back wall but none on the rocks or sand. Sand is very clean.
Here are some pics of the Slimer in question to help... Thanks again anyone who can lend some advice. I can not figure out what is out of whack. Below the slimer is an epic chaos frag from ReefPets that has also shown extremely decreased polyp extension. It used to be hairy now the polyps only come out in the shaded areas of the frag.
Bali Slimer 2-3 months ago
Bali Slimer Now
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