Hello everyone, I have a 60 GA tank with a Roller-mat fleece filter, Aquamaxx Skimmer, Vortech and Vectra pumps with Radian G5 Lights, Apex with trident, DOS ,ATO and etc...
I run ROX. 0.8 and high capacity GFO in a Reactor, and use Tropic Marin Pro mixed to when it reads 1.026 and 34ppt on a calibrated Milwaukee refractometer then I add my bicarb in to elevate ALK to 9.5.
Daily I add Coralamino from Brightwell and Phytoplankton from AlgaeBarn, I also have a huge population of pods.
Every other day I target feed reef roids and add my trace elements A,B,C,&D from Red Sea as necessary 1 ml per 51ml of my calcium dosed.
Weekly I do a 10-15% water change and dose vibrant(i now dose every other week)
Whenever I see a coral not doing well I dip in medicoral(iodine) for 5-7 minutes and put back in tank.
Corals that come in I dip in either Bayer, Revive, CoralRX or Coral MD depending on the coral.
My Current parameters are Temp: 78.2 Salinity: 1.026, ALK: 9.48, Cal: 443, MAG: 1370, Phosphate: .15 , Nitrate : 7
I had to go out of town for three weeks and so my whole system was in the hands of my apex. minus my daily doses and water changes.
While I was gone my nitrates climbed above 8, I wish I did a high range test on my tank to know exactly where it was but I did the low range test twice and when I knew it was higher for sure I did a 50% water change, now its for sure between 4-8 PPM my guess 7 PPM but you know those test kits.
I also took my two torches and Duncan off the rock and glues them to frags to I can iodine dip and move them to lower lighting.
Do you think my Torches and Duncan are dying because of that nitrate spike or do you think its possible it could be something else? never had a torch coral die before so its sad for me.
I run ROX. 0.8 and high capacity GFO in a Reactor, and use Tropic Marin Pro mixed to when it reads 1.026 and 34ppt on a calibrated Milwaukee refractometer then I add my bicarb in to elevate ALK to 9.5.
Daily I add Coralamino from Brightwell and Phytoplankton from AlgaeBarn, I also have a huge population of pods.
Every other day I target feed reef roids and add my trace elements A,B,C,&D from Red Sea as necessary 1 ml per 51ml of my calcium dosed.
Weekly I do a 10-15% water change and dose vibrant(i now dose every other week)
Whenever I see a coral not doing well I dip in medicoral(iodine) for 5-7 minutes and put back in tank.
Corals that come in I dip in either Bayer, Revive, CoralRX or Coral MD depending on the coral.
My Current parameters are Temp: 78.2 Salinity: 1.026, ALK: 9.48, Cal: 443, MAG: 1370, Phosphate: .15 , Nitrate : 7
I had to go out of town for three weeks and so my whole system was in the hands of my apex. minus my daily doses and water changes.
While I was gone my nitrates climbed above 8, I wish I did a high range test on my tank to know exactly where it was but I did the low range test twice and when I knew it was higher for sure I did a 50% water change, now its for sure between 4-8 PPM my guess 7 PPM but you know those test kits.
I also took my two torches and Duncan off the rock and glues them to frags to I can iodine dip and move them to lower lighting.
Do you think my Torches and Duncan are dying because of that nitrate spike or do you think its possible it could be something else? never had a torch coral die before so its sad for me.