Hello!
I had been struggling to keep this goniopora happy.
I got it approximately 6-8 months ago, when my tank was quite new (I started it in July). At first, It seemed to be happy, it had good polyp extension.
Then it went downhill and I never managed to get it back to full health.
It looks like this for the last 3 months:
I had tried so far:
More frequent water changes (twice a week)
Dosing Iodine
Dosing KH (Been dosing KH for approximately 1.5 months now)
Feeding reef roids incl direct feeding
Feeding 1um Phytoplankton incl direct feeding
Feeding 1-20um Phytoplankton incl direct feeding
Moving it to higher and lower flow areas
Moving it to higher and lower PAR
My water parameters are (tested today)
Nitrate: Between 0.5 - 1 (Tested with Salifert)
Phosphate: 0.11 (Tested with Hanna checker), I recently overfed reefroids which probably caused the spike, I am actively working to reduce it slightly
Calcium: 450 tested with JBL and Salifert
Magnesium 1470 tested with JBL and Salifert
KH between 9.3-9.6 tested with salifert, I'm dosing Brightwell Aquatics Alkalin 8.3, which contains Bicarbonate, Carbonate and Borate salts
Salinity 1.025
Temp 25.5 celsius = 77.9F
I'm not sure if my PH meter is correct but according to it my PH is on the lower end, approx 7.8
Until now I had no refugium, today I added cheatomorpha to the sump hoping to reduce the phosphates, will keep the lights on for 10 hours a day.
I read that dosing iron, molybdenum and manganese may help, so I am considering to get Cheatogro and dose that as it contains all these elements which should help both the cheato and goniopora.
I'm just worried that It will elevate my magnesium even higher.
I am using Iquatics salt, these are params listed by the manufacturer:
Any ideas what else I could try?
thank you!
#edit
completely forgot to mention -
I got another goniopora recently and so far it's been looking perfectly happy every day with good polyp extension
Other corals appear to be fine and growing
I had been struggling to keep this goniopora happy.
I got it approximately 6-8 months ago, when my tank was quite new (I started it in July). At first, It seemed to be happy, it had good polyp extension.
Then it went downhill and I never managed to get it back to full health.
It looks like this for the last 3 months:
I had tried so far:
More frequent water changes (twice a week)
Dosing Iodine
Dosing KH (Been dosing KH for approximately 1.5 months now)
Feeding reef roids incl direct feeding
Feeding 1um Phytoplankton incl direct feeding
Feeding 1-20um Phytoplankton incl direct feeding
Moving it to higher and lower flow areas
Moving it to higher and lower PAR
My water parameters are (tested today)
Nitrate: Between 0.5 - 1 (Tested with Salifert)
Phosphate: 0.11 (Tested with Hanna checker), I recently overfed reefroids which probably caused the spike, I am actively working to reduce it slightly
Calcium: 450 tested with JBL and Salifert
Magnesium 1470 tested with JBL and Salifert
KH between 9.3-9.6 tested with salifert, I'm dosing Brightwell Aquatics Alkalin 8.3, which contains Bicarbonate, Carbonate and Borate salts
Salinity 1.025
Temp 25.5 celsius = 77.9F
I'm not sure if my PH meter is correct but according to it my PH is on the lower end, approx 7.8
Until now I had no refugium, today I added cheatomorpha to the sump hoping to reduce the phosphates, will keep the lights on for 10 hours a day.
I read that dosing iron, molybdenum and manganese may help, so I am considering to get Cheatogro and dose that as it contains all these elements which should help both the cheato and goniopora.
I'm just worried that It will elevate my magnesium even higher.
I am using Iquatics salt, these are params listed by the manufacturer:
Any ideas what else I could try?
thank you!
#edit
completely forgot to mention -
I got another goniopora recently and so far it's been looking perfectly happy every day with good polyp extension
Other corals appear to be fine and growing