It's been quite a journey since the last update. It started when my meat coral started bleaching them my big hollywood stunner just lost all its tissue and croaked.
Next few days went by and my bubble gum and Forrest fire and bubble gum digitata stopped polyping out.
First thing was to lower the flow then reduce the lighting as I had my leds at around 60% light blue darkblue and UV with the t5's on for 3 hours.
I cut the flow back to gyre mode and went from 70% to 40% and I noticed things perk up a bit.
My new plan was to use the t5 as the primary and led as secondary.
I started running the 5 hours a day and reduced the led max to 40% and still no luck with the digis coming out then my acan oranged out and started showing skeleton along with my cyphastria losing its color so I new it was not the flow or water chemistry so I lowered the leds to no daylight with max at 20% on both blues and uv at their peak.
When I did this I noticed a huge improvement in everything as my acan started to puff up we the parts that were still good and my fire digi start to get some real polyps going.
My neon orange plate,torches,duncans,zoas,even my leptostrea and symphyillia are doing wonderful.
Here you can see the polyps coming back on the digitata as they had none when this started
This is the acan puffed up for the first time in ages
Here is the Acan ,chphastria and meat coral together slowly getting their color back
My parameters are really good and have been the same for many weeks
Alk - 8 tested everyday at 3 pm
Cal- 430
Mag- 1380
Po4 - .01-.04 (I have to dose to keep it up)
No3 - 3 but raising them to 5
Here is what is keeping all my stuff in check
just emptied today
Since everything has been stable I ordered a few frags and going to see how they do.
