Nitrate is 3 - 4 and phosphate yesterday 0.02 so very low. I’m wanting about 5-10ppm nitrate so steadily climbing and I’m feeding a bit more. Im feeding the corals around twice a week with a mixture of Reef Energy and Reef Roids while nitrates are at the lower levelsWhat are your nitrates and phos?
So my theory with established colonies is, the ones sold certainly by my LFS’s, have been grown in another hobbyists tank for several years in most cases, and then sold to the LFS. they’ve become accustomed to certain water parameters, and then given the first shock of going into the LFS‘s water. And then I come along...... and they get another water shock and the culmination of this is they don’t survive very long.
I realised this several years ago in the S650 as I had gotten into the habbit of just replacing them, then I stepped back and thought their not surviving long term, yet any type of frag grows without any issues. So I stopped buying them
When I purchased the brain coral, the new tank was pretty empty, so I thought that would look stunning, completely forgetting my theory. So I’ve now been reminded again!
I suppose it might make a good door stop or something.....