I did notice my sps were bleaching. I realized that it was the gfo I was running. I have noticed some color coming back since I pulled it and my Phosphates are pretty much in check. Though, I am a little concerned with my hanna low phosphorous checker. It seems that sometimes when loading the c1 vial, if it takes a while to prompt for the next step it will always give me a 200ppb reading. I know you shouldn't wait longer than the 2 minutes to run the test on the second vial but I reran it on the same vials last time this happened and got a 8 ppb reading. I also wipe the vials with a paper towel the microfiber cloth an rinse with rodi before and after use. I may contact hanna today to see if I can find some insight.
I also purchased Lugol Solution, AquaForest AF Amino Mix and AF Energy. I dose a drop of lugols about every two weeks and I was doing a drop of each the Amino and Energy but noticed my sps will look worse than they had the day prior, being that I dose those when the lights are out. I dose the lugols in an effort to bring my blues back into my cali tort. Its as brown as brown can be.
Which leads to the next issue. Not all sps are brown or pale but a good majority are. My params are fairly steady. All but two sps have good polyp extension [I will point them out in the list], and I have 5 powerheads with wavemaker/alternating currents. placement on most of these are mid to high and in high flow.
The ones that look good are:
-Green Gecko
-Green Stylo
-Purple Stylo
-Spongodes Monti
-Birdsnest
Looking fair are:
-ORA Borealis
-Silver bullet
-Wolverine from aqua sd [no polyp extension good color]
-tricolor granulosa [ bit brown]
-rainbow pocci [ little pale]
Brown and pale:
-red millie [brown]
-lime raspberry [pale flesh but purple polyps]
-bonsai acro[some purple but turning brown polyps are barely green]
-ora red planet[bleached]
-Waynes Reef Acro [bleached but coloring back up. I think this was from the gfo. poor polyp extension]
there are a few more but this should give a good idea.
Params:
From 10/5
alk 9.7
cal 410
mag 1400
ph 8.3
temp 79.5 +- .2
No3 0ppm(Api) haven't picked up a better test kit yet
Po4 .009ppm
Amm 0
my alk rose from 10/5 - 10/21
10/21
alk 10.9
cal 410
mag 1400
ph 8.3
temp 79.5 +- .2
No3 0ppm(Api) haven't picked up a better test kit yet
Po4 .021ppm
Amm 0
11/15
alk 10.7
cal 410
mag 1400
ph 8.3
temp 79.5 +- .2
No3 0ppm(Api) haven't picked up a better test kit yet
Po4 .024ppm
Amm 0
There was one day that the po4 rose to .046ppm but I don't this that would be an issue.
EQUIPMENT/TANKINFO:
RIO 2100 return pump
VECTOR 130 Skimmer
Media Filter MaxiJet pump running Carbon one week a month.
2 Jecod DP-3 dosing pumps [Alk/Cal/Mag/Topoffs][Randys reef recipe 1]
BloomSpect 165w LED Light
[blues on for 9 hrs @ 100% and whites on for 7 hrs at 45%]
3 550 gph SunSun JVP 110s[1 on A/B 15 minute Wave Maker schedule, 1 stadyflow behide rock, 1 in sump to prevent settling in hard to maintain chamber.]
2 Current Eflux 660gph pumps wave maker or whatever I adjust to.
Jebao TW-10 PowerHead with wavemaker controller[Other part of A/B WaveMaker]
100w Heater
65w Chinese LED over sump.
Reef Keeper Power supply with temp sensor
30 lbs LR
20 lbs fine LS
20 lbs small coarse sand
water changes about 2-4 g weekly
coralife salt
Am I on the right track and just need to wait it out or is there something I am missing.
I also purchased Lugol Solution, AquaForest AF Amino Mix and AF Energy. I dose a drop of lugols about every two weeks and I was doing a drop of each the Amino and Energy but noticed my sps will look worse than they had the day prior, being that I dose those when the lights are out. I dose the lugols in an effort to bring my blues back into my cali tort. Its as brown as brown can be.
Which leads to the next issue. Not all sps are brown or pale but a good majority are. My params are fairly steady. All but two sps have good polyp extension [I will point them out in the list], and I have 5 powerheads with wavemaker/alternating currents. placement on most of these are mid to high and in high flow.
The ones that look good are:
-Green Gecko
-Green Stylo
-Purple Stylo
-Spongodes Monti
-Birdsnest
Looking fair are:
-ORA Borealis
-Silver bullet
-Wolverine from aqua sd [no polyp extension good color]
-tricolor granulosa [ bit brown]
-rainbow pocci [ little pale]
Brown and pale:
-red millie [brown]
-lime raspberry [pale flesh but purple polyps]
-bonsai acro[some purple but turning brown polyps are barely green]
-ora red planet[bleached]
-Waynes Reef Acro [bleached but coloring back up. I think this was from the gfo. poor polyp extension]
there are a few more but this should give a good idea.
Params:
From 10/5
alk 9.7
cal 410
mag 1400
ph 8.3
temp 79.5 +- .2
No3 0ppm(Api) haven't picked up a better test kit yet
Po4 .009ppm
Amm 0
my alk rose from 10/5 - 10/21
10/21
alk 10.9
cal 410
mag 1400
ph 8.3
temp 79.5 +- .2
No3 0ppm(Api) haven't picked up a better test kit yet
Po4 .021ppm
Amm 0
11/15
alk 10.7
cal 410
mag 1400
ph 8.3
temp 79.5 +- .2
No3 0ppm(Api) haven't picked up a better test kit yet
Po4 .024ppm
Amm 0
There was one day that the po4 rose to .046ppm but I don't this that would be an issue.
EQUIPMENT/TANKINFO:
RIO 2100 return pump
VECTOR 130 Skimmer
Media Filter MaxiJet pump running Carbon one week a month.
2 Jecod DP-3 dosing pumps [Alk/Cal/Mag/Topoffs][Randys reef recipe 1]
BloomSpect 165w LED Light
[blues on for 9 hrs @ 100% and whites on for 7 hrs at 45%]
3 550 gph SunSun JVP 110s[1 on A/B 15 minute Wave Maker schedule, 1 stadyflow behide rock, 1 in sump to prevent settling in hard to maintain chamber.]
2 Current Eflux 660gph pumps wave maker or whatever I adjust to.
Jebao TW-10 PowerHead with wavemaker controller[Other part of A/B WaveMaker]
100w Heater
65w Chinese LED over sump.
Reef Keeper Power supply with temp sensor
30 lbs LR
20 lbs fine LS
20 lbs small coarse sand
water changes about 2-4 g weekly
coralife salt
Am I on the right track and just need to wait it out or is there something I am missing.