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hello everyone!
I am having issues with a few sps frags I have. Tank is about 9 months old and has the following test results:
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 5
Alk 11
PH 7.8
Calcium 480
Mag no way to test
Temperature is around 78.4-78.6
Fluval m90 system with 100 HOB reef octopus skimmer, eheim 4+ filter with clear max, carbon, and chempure elite blue, a cheto refuge in back?running 12 hour reverse lighting . I have the stock marine fluval LED that it come with and a extra fluval led light Bluetooth Aquasky.
Stock light on a timer 12HR at 100%, Aquasky runs blue at 80% and white at 5% for 4 hours.
I do 10% water changes weekly with Red Sea salt using RODI water.
Recently my birds nest has turned light brown and began bleaching at the tips. My smaller Ora birdsnest has turned a light brown and polyps have a long stretched look to them. My green Australian Acro doing well, a purple acro which has zero polyp extension and turned brown, a hammer coral which is open but very thin looking, frogspawn doing great, zoas doing well, monti cap doing better after a small bleaching event and a acan doing good. I am confused as to why my coloration is so bad on most sps and why I am randomly having bleaching issues. Acro placement is on top, monti on top, zoas middle, I moved one birdsnest down to bottom after bleaching, other is mid high. Any ideas on what’s going on would be greatly appreciated! I attached some pictures as well.
I am having issues with a few sps frags I have. Tank is about 9 months old and has the following test results:
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 5
Alk 11
PH 7.8
Calcium 480
Mag no way to test
Temperature is around 78.4-78.6
Fluval m90 system with 100 HOB reef octopus skimmer, eheim 4+ filter with clear max, carbon, and chempure elite blue, a cheto refuge in back?running 12 hour reverse lighting . I have the stock marine fluval LED that it come with and a extra fluval led light Bluetooth Aquasky.
Stock light on a timer 12HR at 100%, Aquasky runs blue at 80% and white at 5% for 4 hours.
I do 10% water changes weekly with Red Sea salt using RODI water.
Recently my birds nest has turned light brown and began bleaching at the tips. My smaller Ora birdsnest has turned a light brown and polyps have a long stretched look to them. My green Australian Acro doing well, a purple acro which has zero polyp extension and turned brown, a hammer coral which is open but very thin looking, frogspawn doing great, zoas doing well, monti cap doing better after a small bleaching event and a acan doing good. I am confused as to why my coloration is so bad on most sps and why I am randomly having bleaching issues. Acro placement is on top, monti on top, zoas middle, I moved one birdsnest down to bottom after bleaching, other is mid high. Any ideas on what’s going on would be greatly appreciated! I attached some pictures as well.