75 gallon sps dominator

[Oliver77]

Hello all , I'm new here to reef central . This is few pics my 75 gallon sps tank.

The tank is one and half years old sps dominant . Its 24x24x30 tall . I run an neptune apex with wxm , one mp10 one mp 40 with a sicce 4 return pump and a reef octopus xs 160 skimmer .Radion gen one with lenses at a85 % Biopellet reactor with 350ml of biopellets .

 

[Oliver77]

I've been having some issues with my milliporas one browned out with very little pe and the other hasent browed out yet but has very little pe.... my parimeters are dkh of 6.8 cal 410 mag 1340 . I have read it can be to too much light night enough light phospate to high to much nutrients in the water and so on .

Anybody have any suggestions ?

 

[diciple]

first id up the alk slowly to 7.5-8.5 dkh seems a bit low.Maybe radion users chime in on your light settings etc.looks like your gonna have capricornis city in there

 

[markalot]

Up the KH slowly, as previously suggested.

Do the millies get good flow?

Do you have a macro lens to check for pests? Could be red bugs, they are very hard to see without a macro lens or some other way to magnify.

They might be getting too much light, have you checked PAR? LED's can be a lot brighter than they look to our eyes.

 

[Oliver77]

first id up the alk slowly to 7.5-8.5 dkh seems a bit low.Maybe radion users chime in on your light settings etc.looks like your gonna have capricornis city in there

Thanks ! I started raising my all very very slowly.....via doser . Today the alk is around 7.3 , polyps are starting to edge out a little . Yea these caps are getting a little out of control lol.

 

[Oliver77]

Up the KH slowly, as previously suggested.

Do the millies get good flow?

Do you have a macro lens to check for pests? Could be red bugs, they are very hard to see without a macro lens or some other way to magnify.

They might be getting too much light, have you checked PAR? LED's can be a lot brighter than they look to our eyes.

I have high flow no dead spots , I run an mp10 and mp40 with the apex and a sicce 4 return flow is excellent. I do not have a macro lens to check for bugs .....I need to ask some of my buddies if they have one i could use for a bit i really hope its a light or all issue .....dont want bugs ! lol These less are hard to get used to... switched over from a 250 mh... its hard to dial in this radion i raised my light about an inch and cut it back 10 % ... before i started raising my all i lost an acro to RTN ....I'm thinking i might have shocked some stuff with low all and high light . Thanks for the suggestions going to check out some par meters , i would like to know instead of guessing.

 

[Oliver77]

Some new frags and check out this cap , can anybody id this for me ? I have had it for a while .....

 

[Oliver77]

My millies have come back with a vengeance !!!! Thanks everybody for there help . I adjusted my radion bk to 40% and added some supplemental t5 with atinics .All of my coral have colored up dramatically .

 

[Oliver77]

It's upgrade time !!! Just ordered new QD drives for my vortechs should be here in a month or so ....I talked to ecoteh and they said the new drivers will be wxm compatible . Also getting my radion gen 1 upgraded to gen 3 , can"t wait !!

 

[Chetna]

When you adjusted you lighting to a lower intensity did it affect anything other corals or was it an all around good thing.

 

[Oliver77]

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[Oliver77]

All my sps look better and have colored up , I also run it at 10k for a couple of hours in the afternoon that made a diffrence also. The radion is running at 55 % and my tank is 30 inches deep. Nothing but positive here.

 

[Ktm898]

what fish do you have? beautiful rock work btw.

 

[Oliver77]

what fish do you have? beautiful rock work btw.

I have two black clowns , two firefish , one six line wrasse , two anthias , one bangai cardnial , one barnicle blenny and one red headed goby i never see .... Thanks ! Its several pieces of tonga branch welded together into two pieces .

 

[Oliver77]

Getting my retrofitted g3 bk today !!!