The last couple weeks I've been having some issues with my corals and it seems to just be getting worse. I attempted dosing nitrate and phosphate a while back and it seemed like my corals were not fans of it, so I stopped. After I stopped, my corals seemed to rebound a little bit until about 3-4 weeks ago where I noticed my ultimate table frag was not extending polyps anymore. This was shortly after I began using red sea amino acids. I thought nothing of the lack of polyp extension and proceeded to ignore it, however it still hasn't extended polyps and things seem to be getting worse. My holy Grail torch is (as of this morning) closed up, my Walt Disney has some pale polyps around the tips, and one of my other acros has some brown film over it.
I had a store test my water day before yesterday because I was worried I had some issues with my test kits and here is what they got:
Nitrate: 0
Phosphate: 0.006
Salinity: 1.026 (before I topped it off)
Alkalinity: 7.3 (I dosed to bring it up 0.5 about 40 minutes ago)
Calcium: 500
Magnesium: 1380 (another store got the same result the day before)
The tank is a red sea 750 xxl with a trigger systems triton44 sump, it's got a fuge attached and it will be running full Triton method in the future once I have a doser for it, however I've been hand dosing ESV Bi-ionic in the meantime to keep up with growth. I'm trying to bring the nutrients up and I've been cutting down the fuge light time, so I'm not sure if the lack of nutrients could be causing this. I'm sure I could be doing more water changes, I just haven't seen much of a need as the stuff that I'm able to test at home (without an ICP) seems fine to me. I'll upload photos if I can get a chance before work.
I had a store test my water day before yesterday because I was worried I had some issues with my test kits and here is what they got:
Nitrate: 0
Phosphate: 0.006
Salinity: 1.026 (before I topped it off)
Alkalinity: 7.3 (I dosed to bring it up 0.5 about 40 minutes ago)
Calcium: 500
Magnesium: 1380 (another store got the same result the day before)
The tank is a red sea 750 xxl with a trigger systems triton44 sump, it's got a fuge attached and it will be running full Triton method in the future once I have a doser for it, however I've been hand dosing ESV Bi-ionic in the meantime to keep up with growth. I'm trying to bring the nutrients up and I've been cutting down the fuge light time, so I'm not sure if the lack of nutrients could be causing this. I'm sure I could be doing more water changes, I just haven't seen much of a need as the stuff that I'm able to test at home (without an ICP) seems fine to me. I'll upload photos if I can get a chance before work.