Slow to No LPS Growth

[AlexChef]

That's good. The key change up was direct spot feeding with frozen/ thawed reef food just before the changes, sustained for two months above norm to drive lps growth

Plus making rocks and sand clean like in that thread, having the system instantly back to new, all new water, then resume those good water change habits. It's changing away from current activity levels into a form of reef tank exercise

Right now I have been doing direct feedings 1 cube once a week right before water change with mysis and twice a week with reef roids, I will lower the amount of mysis and up the feedings

 

[AlexChef]

Here are some clearer images

 

[Tankkeepers]

Im going to say that algae/bryopsis/hair algae is stunting you coral growth. Sometimes test kits give false reading. What I would do is to try to control the algae, with ceirth snails and margarita snail. ( they will clean your tank but they will die shorty after) or you can go for the uv light or phosban reactor route. Once the green algae is under control your coral growth will take off. As for the purple and pink helix. At this moment they are fighting to establish themselves in a tank that has algae established in it.

I would disagree the algie is stunting your coral growth I have a ton of bryopsis in my tank and I still get good growth do you spot feed or brodcast feed your coral if brodcast feeding instead use a turkey baster with some reef roids and tank water and slowly give each coral some food

 

[AlexChef]

@brandon429 completed my rip clean today, removed about half of my sand bed as I realized just how much I had. Things are looking good right now. I have my lights on a 25% ramp up over 7 days. This gav me the opportunity to remove a grumpy watchman goby as well

 

[Pilot_rue]

That looks like phosphate issues

The bag on the powerhead is to keep nems out

I added a bottle of purple fusion and pink helix on 10/19 to try and reinforce corral one growth