Torch head bailout… bad morning.

[Notsolostfish]

Good morning.

Woke up this morning to my 1 year old torch one of the heads bailed out. So i fragged it. I am not sure why would that happen. Tested my water alk is 9.7 i monitor it weekly or biweekly sometimes its always been 9.5-9.7. I dose all for reef on a redsea doser. My tank is a 150G. Everything thriving in it no issues.

The only changes that iv been doing is dosing tropic marin A and K, experimenting with it to see if i get any benefits from since last icp test showed me some 0 elements. Im doing 3ml half the recommended amount on both. Everyday.

I dose phyto everyday as well, 150ml in the morning. The last changes i also did was i switched from reef crest to lagoon flow, changed the flow a bit, but nothing major at all. Im also dosing wolf glass silicate for almost 2 months now to get rid of the large amphidium dinos, which its working pretty good. But the only recent change has been the traces should i stop that?

Parameters:

Alk:9.7
Cal:450
Mag:1404
Phosphate: showing on hanna 0.51 but i believe thats because the high concentrated silicate in the water interfering with the test.
Nitrate:12.4
Ph:8.2

 

[*GAREEF*]

From what you said it sounds like possibly the a+k might be the problem.
I wouldn’t play with all in one concentrated trace elements. If your icp shows certain elements low then just dose those elements separately.
Or more frequent water changes to replenish them.