Couple months ago I took advantage of some home repairs and upgraded from a 75g to a 120g. The 75 was up and running for about 5 years, bare bottom, sps dominated with mostly acros, colors and growth have been solid. Since the upgrade things definitely are drab, brown, and just colorless, not pale or anything, just blah.
I went from T5's to 250w MH Radiums (lights are sitting higher off the tank as well as the tank being 4 inches deeper.) To acclimate the lights, I ran them for 3 hours a day while adding 15 minutes each day.
Nitrates ran about 20 ppm but with all the new water they dropped significantly and I struggled to get them to show up on a salifert test. I've added a few fish, fed a little heavier, and now they hang around 5ppm.
Surprisingly, PE has been pretty good througout. I keep alk between 7-8 dkh, the past couple weeks has been holding almost exactly at 141 ppm. Calcium is a little lower than normal at 410 but slowly bringing it up. I will get some random RTN on a branch here and there which i havent been able to pinpoint why. I ended up fragging a surf n turf stag, one of the 5 frags RTN'd while the others are ok, that has me stumped because they are on the same frag rack next to each other.
Setup is pretty simple otherwise, skimmer and GAC but that was taken offline for the moment. I'm sure my issues are from making too many changes and the solution is to keep things consistent but I'm not seeing too many threads of things looking this bad after an upgrade?
I went from T5's to 250w MH Radiums (lights are sitting higher off the tank as well as the tank being 4 inches deeper.) To acclimate the lights, I ran them for 3 hours a day while adding 15 minutes each day.
Nitrates ran about 20 ppm but with all the new water they dropped significantly and I struggled to get them to show up on a salifert test. I've added a few fish, fed a little heavier, and now they hang around 5ppm.
Surprisingly, PE has been pretty good througout. I keep alk between 7-8 dkh, the past couple weeks has been holding almost exactly at 141 ppm. Calcium is a little lower than normal at 410 but slowly bringing it up. I will get some random RTN on a branch here and there which i havent been able to pinpoint why. I ended up fragging a surf n turf stag, one of the 5 frags RTN'd while the others are ok, that has me stumped because they are on the same frag rack next to each other.
Setup is pretty simple otherwise, skimmer and GAC but that was taken offline for the moment. I'm sure my issues are from making too many changes and the solution is to keep things consistent but I'm not seeing too many threads of things looking this bad after an upgrade?
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