Tank Advice Needed!!!

[unbeknownst]

Torch receding, space invaders dying, general health of the tank doesn't look good. Need some opinions and suggestions. Nutrients are intentionally raised because of dinos.
Nitrate 25ppm
Phosphate 1ppm

 

[EliMelly]

Phosphates are a big high have things been stable in terms of nutrients?

 

[Lavey29]

Need complete parameters, age of the tank par levels, etc... have you done a recent ICP test?

 

[unbeknownst]

Phosphates are a big high have things been stable in terms of nutrients?

Yes, Slowly raised them, definitely improved the dino situation

 

[unbeknownst]

Need complete parameters, age of the tank par levels, etc... have you done a recent ICP test?

No Icp test ever in this tank
Alk 8.0
Cal 450
Mag 1320

 

[Lavey29]

No Icp test ever in this tank
Alk 8.0
Cal 450
Mag 1320

You didn't provide tank age or par numbers for your struggling coral

 

[Uncle99]

Nutrients both too high.
It doesn’t need to be that high to fight Dino’s.
Nitrate 5ppm and phosphate.1ppm would be better targets.
High nutrients cause corals to brown out, and slow growth.

 

[unbeknownst]

You didn't provide tank age or par numbers for your struggling coral

As far as the tank goes, I have only owned it for a year. I don't know how long the previous owner had it before me, but he did have it as just a fowler tank.
One of the torches was recieving about 80 par because a rock had cast a slight shadow on it. Moved the rock and now he's at 120 par.
Hot spot par is about 250 and the light goes as low as 50 around the edges.

 

[unbeknownst]

Nutrients both too high.
It doesn’t need to be that high to fight Dino’s.
Nitrate 5ppm and phosphate.1ppm would be better targets.
High nutrients cause corals to brown out, and slow growth.

So, water change then?

 

[Science/G]

As far as the tank goes, I have only owned it for a year. I don't know how long the previous owner had it before me, but he did have it as just a fowler tank.
One of the torches was recieving about 80 par because a rock had cast a slight shadow on it. Moved the rock and now he's at 120 par.
Hot spot par is about 250 and the light goes as low as 50 around the edges.

lighting seems legit. But nitrate and phosphate are a little high

 

[Uncle99]

So, water change then?

WC will bring those down.
Trace amounts are just fine.
You could consider carbon dosing to keep nitrate pinned if you need to.
But you might want to do that slowly, say from 25 to 20…..week….20 to 15……week….etc.

The phosphate you’ll need to pull that from the water with GFO in a reactor. Just make sure it does not zero out, or use Phos0.04 so you can just run it continuously.

Salinity and Alk must remain right on point at all times.

 

[Science/G]

A 10% water change is probably the best prescription for any aquarium where things don't look good

 

[Lavey29]

As far as the tank goes, I have only owned it for a year. I don't know how long the previous owner had it before me, but he did have it as just a fowler tank.
One of the torches was recieving about 80 par because a rock had cast a slight shadow on it. Moved the rock and now he's at 120 par.
Hot spot par is about 250 and the light goes as low as 50 around the edges.

Probably not enough. My torches sit in 250 par.