mbedak
Community Member
Hello fellow reefers,
I am somewhat at a loss, after 4 month my pH finally came about 8.1-8.2 and was relatively stable,
but this Saturday everything came down to 7.72 and rises only to about 7.8 in the light period.
I have co2 scrubber, algae reactor which is growing chaeto nicely, and i open my windows frequently (sometimes too much, so my tank temp falls to about 24), I don't know what is going on.
The only thing different about Saturday night is that i left all my windows open and my tank temp fell to about 23.8 but got up into the range fairly quickly (until noon).
I recently started dosing NP Bacto Balance from Fauna marin (my phos got to about .1 and no3 was 25) , but i don't think that 1.1ml daily can be so acidic to bring the whole tank down to 7.7 (it isn't a linear scale after all).
I do water changes weekly around 11-12% (hard to tell how much water there really is inside the system),
Feeding is 3xtimes a day really low amount (a few pellets) for my anthias (Anthias pro feed AF) and once a day i toss in some brine or Mysis (not every day necessarily). I did notice one anthias missing (there were 6, now i only see 5), he maybe died but they are constantly dwelling in the rocks and i cant be sure if it is just coincidence that i see 5 different every time.
Also i would like to add that i cant get anything to skim out, the skimmer is running at 100% and i barely get any foam on top, but i always assumed that my roller filter is just to good at pulling stuff out.
System is now 7 months old.
I can add pics when i get home.
Thank you for all the help thus far, i just cant seem to get the tank to take off. Other people grow these corals so much faster, i only got 1 head on my duncan i 4 months, and when i finally stared to use the nutrients (and started dosing) this happened. Now my dosing pumps are not working, but KH still raises ( i contribute that to the bacterial activity from Bacto Balance)
I will put all my tank info here:
System Profile:
I am somewhat at a loss, after 4 month my pH finally came about 8.1-8.2 and was relatively stable,
but this Saturday everything came down to 7.72 and rises only to about 7.8 in the light period.
I have co2 scrubber, algae reactor which is growing chaeto nicely, and i open my windows frequently (sometimes too much, so my tank temp falls to about 24), I don't know what is going on.
The only thing different about Saturday night is that i left all my windows open and my tank temp fell to about 23.8 but got up into the range fairly quickly (until noon).
I recently started dosing NP Bacto Balance from Fauna marin (my phos got to about .1 and no3 was 25) , but i don't think that 1.1ml daily can be so acidic to bring the whole tank down to 7.7 (it isn't a linear scale after all).
I do water changes weekly around 11-12% (hard to tell how much water there really is inside the system),
Feeding is 3xtimes a day really low amount (a few pellets) for my anthias (Anthias pro feed AF) and once a day i toss in some brine or Mysis (not every day necessarily). I did notice one anthias missing (there were 6, now i only see 5), he maybe died but they are constantly dwelling in the rocks and i cant be sure if it is just coincidence that i see 5 different every time.
Also i would like to add that i cant get anything to skim out, the skimmer is running at 100% and i barely get any foam on top, but i always assumed that my roller filter is just to good at pulling stuff out.
System is now 7 months old.
I can add pics when i get home.
Thank you for all the help thus far, i just cant seem to get the tank to take off. Other people grow these corals so much faster, i only got 1 head on my duncan i 4 months, and when i finally stared to use the nutrients (and started dosing) this happened. Now my dosing pumps are not working, but KH still raises ( i contribute that to the bacterial activity from Bacto Balance)
I will put all my tank info here:
System Profile:
- Display Tank: 120x60x60cm, glass
- Sump: 80x40x40
- Protein Skimmer: MaxSpect Jump SK 400
- Carbon/Phosphate Filtration: Aquaforest Carbon, GFO
- Return Pump: D-D Funktion 6500l
- Water Circulation: Maxspect Gyre cloud XF350 x2, and a Jebao MLW 20
- Lighting (Display): 2x Hydra 32HD, running BRS (AB+) preset at around 80%, 10H full spectrum, 2 hours Blue only
- Lighting (Refugium): Pacific sun Algae reactor M, 24W Led
- Calcium/Alkalinity/Magnesium Dosing Equipment: Reef factory dosing pump pro, Fauna Marin balling method
- Auto Top-off: D-D ATO
- Heating/Cooling: 2x400W heaters
- System Control: Neptune Apex EL & ReefFactory
- UV: Thieling UV unit
- RollerMat: Thieling Compact 1 rollermat
- CO2: Co2 scrubber from pacific sun with aquaforest media
- Other Details: I run Trident for testing and i test NO3 with Salifert, PO4 with Hanna.
- Temperature: 24.8-25.5 °C
- pH: 7.72?
- Specific Gravity: 35 ppt
- NO₃: 25 ppm
- Calcium: 488 ppm
- Alkalinity: 9.4 dKH
- Magnesium: 1350 ppm
- Phosphate: 0.1 ppm
