Tank and Acans are a little off

[TnKidd]

I have 4 acan lords in my Evo 13.5

The tank is a 1.5 ish years old. Lately it has been mostly on autopilot just doing 5 gallon waterchanges every other week.

Within the past 4 weeks I had a major infestation of GHA. During this time my acans started to turn almost clear and translucent but were still nice and fluffy and looked healthy, just not their color.

I cleaned all of the algae out, pulled the rocks out and scrubbed all of the rocks and did a 3 day blackout. I did a 6 gallon water change the dayafter the blackout and for the past week everything has looked good, all the corals and fish looked good except the Acans are still translucent.

I did some tests today and my readings are

Calcium 425
Kh 13.7
Nitrates 10ish (api) 25 (first ever test done with salifert)
Magnesium 1180
Phosphate .5 ish (api) .6ish (Hannah ulr 1st time using) read 200 phosphorus (which I know is the max reading)
Salinity 1.025
Temp 79
These readingd are only 4 days after 6 gallon water change


Running chemi pure elite in the media basket.

This tank has torches and hammers, lots of zoas and acans.

2 clowns
YWG and pistol shrimp
1 sexy
1 pom pom crabs
1 cleaner
5 Naz snails
2 or 3 Trochus snails



I am thinking that my Nitrates and phosphates are up there but I have not been one to do water tests regularly so I am not sure how long the readings have been like this.

Looking for some direction and help on what to do next.

Any advice? Thank you!

 

[FreshSaltH2o]

What’s your light setup and schedule like?

 

[FreshSaltH2o]

Almost looks like high light bleaching

 

[Duffer]

Alk is high along with nitrates and phosphates
mag is low
carbon dosing will help with nitrates, phosphates water changes will only get those that are in the water column..they bind to rock and sand,run gfo or get phos E

 

[TnKidd]

I have been running a Saxby type schedule for the longest time. I thought it may have been a bleaching issue also so I changed up the schedule when I did the blackout to this schedule.

11 to 10 with a full hour of sunrise and sunset. No white lights at all. Right now on 45 day acclimation starting at 15 %

Light is maybe a foot above the tank

Ai prime with 3d printed diffuser

 

[TnKidd]

May be worth noting these guys are all either 5 or 8 months old in my tank with no changes ever made to light schedule.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have 4 acan lords in my Evo 13.5

The tank is a 1.5 ish years old. Lately it has been mostly on autopilot just doing 5 gallon waterchanges every other week.

Within the past 4 weeks I had a major infestation of GHA. During this time my acans started to turn almost clear and translucent but were still nice and fluffy and looked healthy, just not their color.

I cleaned all of the algae out, pulled the rocks out and scrubbed all of the rocks and did a 3 day blackout. I did a 6 gallon water change the dayafter the blackout and for the past week everything has looked good, all the corals and fish looked good except the Acans are still translucent.

I did some tests today and my readings are

Calcium 425
Kh 13.7
Nitrates 10ish (api) 25 (first ever test done with salifert)
Magnesium 1180
Phosphate .5 ish (api) .6ish (Hannah ulr 1st time using) read 200 phosphorus (which I know is the max reading)
Salinity 1.025
Temp 79
These readingd are only 4 days after 6 gallon water change


Running chemi pure elite in the media basket.

This tank has torches and hammers, lots of zoas and acans.

2 clowns
YWG and pistol shrimp
1 sexy
1 pom pom crabs
1 cleaner
5 Naz snails
2 or 3 Trochus snails



I am thinking that my Nitrates and phosphates are up there but I have not been one to do water tests regularly so I am not sure how long the readings have been like this.

Looking for some direction and help on what to do next.

Any advice? Thank you!

alk a little high and mag a little low. Also assure moderate light and water flow and feed mysis shrimp 2x per week.
Alk- best at 8-10
Mag - Best at 1300-1350

 

[TnKidd]

Alk is high along with nitrates and phosphates
mag is low
carbon dosing will help with nitrates, phosphates water changes will only get those that are in the water column..they bind to rock and sand,run gfo or get phos E

alk a little high and mag a little low. Also assure moderate light and water flow and feed mysis shrimp 2x per week.
Alk- best at 8-10
Mag - Best at 1300-1350

So should i do another 50% water change? Would that work best to lower the Alkalinity?

I am running chemi pure elite. That would take care of the carbon and gfo correct? Should I maybe add more of one or both?

I will do some research on dosing for Mag.

Anything I should change with that lighting intensity at that height away from water?

 

[Johnnyrainbowreefer]

Your light schedule is way to high. Acans thrive in 50 to 75 par max. Your parameters are okay just some minor tweaking also acans and lps in general like cooler water 75 to 77 degrees max. These light schedules that they advertise on Ai like saxby and so forth are for fairly large aquariums with predominantly acropora. Lower your white to 5 percent bump your royal blue up to 100 bump your regular blue to 35 keep both violets at 50 to 60 percent. Thank me later! Good luck!!!