trouble with stn on sps need help

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Hello all I'm having trouble with my sps stning on me until they completely die. My display tank and my frag tank are plumed together. Same water. The corals in the frag tank are doing great but the corals in my display tank are not happy.when they stress out I put them in my frag tank they heal and start looking great so I move them back to the display and they start to bleach and stn again so the only difference between the two is that my display is running 3 250w radiums With 2 t5 Ho actinics and my frag tank is running a power module 8 bulb t5 could it be my mh lights I just changed them about 1 month ago they are 18in above the water .or maybe flow the display measures 60/24/24 I have 2 mp40 and 2 6105s and the frag tank has 1 mp10 could my ballasts be bad? Params are alk 9.0 Cal 440 mag 1440 po4 is 0.04 nitrates 0.3 please help thanks
 

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