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My tanks been running for about 5 years as a fish only and just under a year ago I decided to make the move to converting to a reef tank. LPS and Zoas have done great, I have a large Ritteri anemone that’s also quite happy presumably. I made a few additions with sps and I’m getting mixed results and recently I’m seeing some not great trends. I have a garf bonsai, green slimer, wwc yoda, and a few others doing quite well. Over 6 months they’ve been encrusting, coloring up and growing new nubs. When I add new pieces typically I’ll see a pretty abrasive initial response where color flushes out, and some tissue is lost, but over a month or two, the tissue comes back and color returns and they are back and as good as new. Yesterday I had my wwc frogskin acro go from solid color to 95% tissue loss and its bleach white. The next day I say little white spots popping up on my wwc madman austera and wwc Hollywood dreams. Meanwhile the others that were doing well in the past couldn’t look happier, anemone looks the same. Flow doesn’t seem like an issue I have an mp10 and a maxspect gyre creating alternating currents (gyre Ramps to 60% power up and down while mp10 is reefcrest mode to 100% on a 60g cube). Water test as of today is as follows:
Alk:9.0 (hanna)
Ca: 540 (Hanna)
Mg: 1320 (salifert)
No3: 5ppm (Nyos)
Po4: .003 (hanna ULR)
Salinity: 1.026
pH: 8.0 (salifert)
I haven’t dosed anything for calcium and my readings stay in the 500s I use the black bucket by red sea and do 20% water changes every 2 weeks. But dose alk (20mL) about every 2 days. No3 and po4 are on the low side but I can’t imagine that could be causing both the hot spots and that sudden tissue loss could it? Any help appreciated.
Alk:9.0 (hanna)
Ca: 540 (Hanna)
Mg: 1320 (salifert)
No3: 5ppm (Nyos)
Po4: .003 (hanna ULR)
Salinity: 1.026
pH: 8.0 (salifert)
I haven’t dosed anything for calcium and my readings stay in the 500s I use the black bucket by red sea and do 20% water changes every 2 weeks. But dose alk (20mL) about every 2 days. No3 and po4 are on the low side but I can’t imagine that could be causing both the hot spots and that sudden tissue loss could it? Any help appreciated.