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I am getting super disappointed and feeling defeated with my tank I set up in June... Sooo long story short I setup a redsea reefer nano max 20g aio this last June. Set it up and added corals and got fish with marine velvet so went fallow for 60 days and just left the corals in. During that time period the corals especially the zoas were doing AMAZING!!!!! Everything was growing and looking so nice and pretty, about a week after I added fish the corals began closing up and randomly zoas started reaching, now I did rescape my tank but after rescaping my zoas are getting actually more light now.... after rescaping my tank I got a big bloom of diatoms and brownish hair looking algea, my LFS told me the algae was from the rescape causing leeching and that should dial back... I did leave with an emerald crab but he hasnt touched any corals and the issue was happenign long before I got him, my plan is to use him to eat the algea with my snails then return him.... but it still makes me wonder why my zoas are stretching, I was told for the corals closed up I needed more flow and needed to move the powerhead to the back of my tank instead of the side, So I did that and saw a SLIGHT SLIGHT improvement on my torches but they are still really closed and small. Next I was told the Karen Vazquez light schedule was bad and to change so I did research and am 2 weeks into my acclimation mode switching to the AB+ (ai prime) and its been in full effect for a few days now and everything is still closed and stretching and its now getting tons of light so I am feeling defeated, I have been through now velvet, algae blooms, losing fish and now my corals not looking good gives me very little satisfaction from my tank and I do not know where else to turn... So far this forum is pretty much the only thing keeping me from ripping my tank apart and selling everything...
Ammonia is 0
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0.03
Calcium 500
Alk was 2.7 but I think I messed up doing this on my Hanna and can redo if needed...
Ai Prime running AB+ from BRS Running from 9-5 with 1.5 hour ramp up and down with 2 hours of blue light for what was my enjoyement of corals at night.
Nero 5 running at Pulsing 1.5 seconds on and 1.8 seconds off at 50% ( I think but can double check when I get home)
Ammonia is 0
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0.03
Calcium 500
Alk was 2.7 but I think I messed up doing this on my Hanna and can redo if needed...
Ai Prime running AB+ from BRS Running from 9-5 with 1.5 hour ramp up and down with 2 hours of blue light for what was my enjoyement of corals at night.
Nero 5 running at Pulsing 1.5 seconds on and 1.8 seconds off at 50% ( I think but can double check when I get home)