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Your living stones looks very 'green'. I doubt your measurment of your nutriment level are right. Can you double check with a friend? Might also be a too young, not cycled tank
Okay thanks, I just have to be patient
Let your alk drop brother. Acros can easily handle a 0.75 dKh swing a day. My alk goes from 7.5 to 6.7 every day. Stop ALL carbon dosing and feed your corals.
Stop dosing alk. What salt do you use? I use tropic Marin pro because it mixes to about 7.0-7.5.How can I drop it easily? Only thing I know is to do a water change.. it’s now on 9,3 dKh
Thanks for your advise I Will try thatNext time your making up water. Use an air stone or even a power head sucking in air... something for a few days ahead of time it will drop your dkh of your makeup water. Also like everyone says go slow and steady... and lose the carbon and gfo. Don’t necessarily have to feed your corals but you need to feed your fish but don’t overfeed. If your import and export are on point you should never have to dose nitrates / phos or lower them with media if your on top of your water changes.
Instant ocean dkh 180ppm drops to 135 after 6 days of mixing in my containers
The few sps you have full size colonies. So once you get your alk down and your nutrients up a bit, the acros should recover and start consuming alk. You definitely want to switch to a lower alk salt for future water changes though.I don’t dose alk. I don’t have a lot of corals yet only Some soft corals en a few sps. I use Colombo salt but Maby I should change my salt because Colombo mixes to 9
The few sps you have full size colonies. So once you get your alk down and your nutrients up a bit, the acros should recover and start consuming alk. You definitely want to switch to a lower alk salt for future water changes though.
I know there are some reefers that keep alk at 9 or higher, but I have not had any success with acros above 8 dKH. Mine do a lot better closer to 7 dKH. I’ve talked with many big name acro farmers and they all keep their alk around 7 and no higher than 8. Closer to 7 allows a safety net if your nutrients bottom out, IMO. I think 9.3 is still too high, especially because they are still stressed. A couple of your pics the corals look just like the ones I had before all died off when I was carbon dosing, using gfo and had my alk closer to 9. The acros looked good for a couple weeks, then the polyps would slowly retract. Then they would start to look dark and “dried” out. After that they would develop stn from the base or brownish slime on their tips. I was told by several farmers that told me carbon dosing can cause stn and acro starvation. Within 2 weeks of no carbon dosing and gfo my acros started looking better and started encrusting a month later.The alk is 9,3 now, PO4 is 0,09 and NO3 is around 5/10. I understand that alk 8 is better than 9,3 But are these values really too bad to keep an acropra alive? I do not think it's very bad.
in the Netherlands we have a lot of "DRS" users and they almost all dat to do not stop adding carbon. I do not know exactly why. but I believe you and I see no other option like stopping carbon dosing so I'm going to try that.I know there are some reefers that keep alk at 9 or higher, but I have not had any success with acros above 8 dKH. Mine do a lot better closer to 7 dKH. I’ve talked with many big name acro farmers and they all keep their alk around 7 and no higher than 8. Closer to 7 allows a safety net if your nutrients bottom out, IMO. I think 9.3 is still too high, especially because they are still stressed. A couple of your pics the corals look just like the ones I had before all died off when I was carbon dosing, using gfo and had my alk closer to 9. The acros looked good for a couple weeks, then the polyps would slowly retract. Then they would start to look dark and “dried” out. After that they would develop stn from the base or brownish slime on their tips. I was told by several farmers that told me carbon dosing can cause stn and acro starvation. Within 2 weeks of no carbon dosing and gfo my acros started looking better and started encrusting a month later.
Good luck to you and your acros.