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!
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!