Okay here’s a lengthy one. Been set up for about a year now. Last experience was years ago with MH’s and when the goal was 0 Nitrate/phosphate. So a lot has changed since then.
Doing well with this nano 22 show with a 20 high custom sump I made to increase volume. Drilled the tank and made an overflow Only lps and sps. Everything seems happy with great polyp extension, decent growth, but some sps color is fading while others are great. Lps has been great the entire time. I’ve already had a browning effect due to a phosphate swing early on but for the past 6 months things have been very stable:
Check daily
Nitrate: 10ish
Phosphate: 0.04-0.07
Calcium: 400-450
All: 8.4-8.9
Mg: 1400-1500
Temp: 78
Salinity: 1.025
running:
2 ai primes (par map below - saxby’s)
2 Nero 3’s. Up fronted oriented back and up each variable max to 45% which is giving great flow and extension of polyps nothing is getting blasted too hard
fish:
Clown
Green chromis
Royal gramma
6line wrasse (new because of a huge amphipod population)
Total volume about 35g
5 gallon water change biweekly
Fuel 2/week
Coral feast 2/week spot and broadcast
Multiple fish foods and mysis
biggest noticeable difference is Jedi mind trick. But also bill murry went from red to all pale yellow despite both of these having great polyp extension. Teal acro new growth seems brownish too.
everything I read makes me think it’s a “nutrient too high problem”. But they also say to keep it in the range that I have it. So any ideas are welcome.
Doing well with this nano 22 show with a 20 high custom sump I made to increase volume. Drilled the tank and made an overflow Only lps and sps. Everything seems happy with great polyp extension, decent growth, but some sps color is fading while others are great. Lps has been great the entire time. I’ve already had a browning effect due to a phosphate swing early on but for the past 6 months things have been very stable:
Check daily
Nitrate: 10ish
Phosphate: 0.04-0.07
Calcium: 400-450
All: 8.4-8.9
Mg: 1400-1500
Temp: 78
Salinity: 1.025
running:
2 ai primes (par map below - saxby’s)
2 Nero 3’s. Up fronted oriented back and up each variable max to 45% which is giving great flow and extension of polyps nothing is getting blasted too hard
fish:
Clown
Green chromis
Royal gramma
6line wrasse (new because of a huge amphipod population)
Total volume about 35g
5 gallon water change biweekly
Fuel 2/week
Coral feast 2/week spot and broadcast
Multiple fish foods and mysis
biggest noticeable difference is Jedi mind trick. But also bill murry went from red to all pale yellow despite both of these having great polyp extension. Teal acro new growth seems brownish too.
everything I read makes me think it’s a “nutrient too high problem”. But they also say to keep it in the range that I have it. So any ideas are welcome.