Need help...

[Charlie’s Frags]

I chase a stable alk
Does that count??

I also don’t chase an ideal number hours of sleep either

 

[SeaDweller]

I also don’t chase an ideal number hours of sleep either

Lol. And yes alk counts, hahaha, but that’s the numero uno one.

 

[Luno]

Your nutrients are way too low for 8.9 alk. I bet it drifts even higher after you dose. Your alk should not be any higher than 7.8-8 when your nutrients are that low.

^ you seem to be chasing numbers vs trusting the eye test. Many a successful tank have more than negligible nutrients. This seems to correlate to your nopox treatment.

I gotta whole heartedly disagree. . . Chasing numbers is more so when people get pedantic over minute differences and create instability chasing them. Keeping a correct balance between alk and nutrients is something successful reeefers have been doing for a long time for good reason

 

[Stigigemla]

If You go back to the beginning of the thread You will see in post 1 that the eye test is done and is the reason of this thread.

Regarding the values there are some corals that dont fare well with phosporous above 0.2 or nitrate over 10.
In my experience browning of corals come from high phosphorous and/or low light intensity.
You can make the brown colour less visible having a bluer light color.
And You have high nutrients so it is no problems with the alkalinity. I would slowly lower the nitrate to 5 - 10 and the phosphate to 0,03 - 0,1

What kind of light do You have? Settings? Distance over the water surface?

 

[Luno]

If You go back to the beginning of the thread You will see in post 1 that the eye test is done and is the reason of this thread.

Regarding the values there are some corals that dont fare well with phosporous above 0.2 or nitrate over 10.
In my experience browning of corals come from high phosphorous and/or low light intensity.
You can make the brown colour less visible having a bluer light color.
And You have high nutrients so it is no problems with the alkalinity. I would slowly lower the nitrate to 5 - 10 and the phosphate to 0,03 - 0,1

What kind of light do You have? Settings? Distance over the water surface?

What exactly do you mean eye test? Because I went back to post 1 as you suggested and found nothing of an eye test. . . If referring to simply the browning of coral that is nothing like what above is talking about. I'm struggling to understand the relevance. For me above is talking abo people who Reef by how the tank looks as a whole and how healthy inhabitants appear as apposed to following target levels

 

[Stigigemla]

When I read a thread I always check the first post and try to act as if that is what the thread is about.
He looked at the corals and found out that they were not OK. Thats the eye test for me. Of coarse there are other things to see too but the corals was not OK. He took the values and incuded them in the first post and I found that wise because we always ask for that.

Of coarse we can discusse if brown corals do bad, as good or even better than corals in what we call good coral colors. I dont think its the subjekt of this thread.