After almost getting rid of the tank......... I'm going to keep it. I just need to devote a bit of time to it and little less on the house. So to the point...I've got some questions.
1) I switched salt about a week and a half ago from Coralife to Kent. The Alk for Coralife is 7-8 the Alk for Kent is 10-11. It appears to have burned my corals with the bump. My Alk is now 10 and Cal is 450. Nit-0 no color on elos. Mag was 1250. Anyone else had a problem with kent salt? Any ideas to lower the alk?
2) When I did the switch I started to loose all my zoas...but they went slowly. I have never had a problem with zoas. The weird thing is they went in patches as if something was eating them. Also the purple death polys are 100% fine so only my smaller zoas got eaten/ gone. They left the rock entirely not even a trace now just a bunch of clean frag plugs. I talked to Jake and he was thinking the little star fish or a zoa bacteria. I did see one little star fish a week ago and got it out of the tank but never one since. Any other ideas? Also I have not added anything for a good month.
As a side note Jake told me the purple death polys are a different type of zoa then the radio active dragon eyes, pink panthers and all the others i lost.
I just can't seem to get the Alk and Cal correct and a few of the corals have browned out and now white tips from Alk burn, I assume. Any ideas? I don't have a big bio load and my alk and cal seem to go down very slow when things were doing better. Do I need more coral to eat up the alk and cal? I'm trying to figure out what the heck I am doing wrong. not feeding enough, cal and alk bouncing too much, to many water changes for my water volume.
I have clear water, no alge, just a bit of brown film on the glass each day but the magnetic cleaner takes that off. Maybe Jake or Ken or another one of you reef guru can look at everything and tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Side note- one of my sea swirl motors went out. Anyone know how to fix them?
-Also I should be done with the garage renovation soon and move the sump components down to the garage.
1) I switched salt about a week and a half ago from Coralife to Kent. The Alk for Coralife is 7-8 the Alk for Kent is 10-11. It appears to have burned my corals with the bump. My Alk is now 10 and Cal is 450. Nit-0 no color on elos. Mag was 1250. Anyone else had a problem with kent salt? Any ideas to lower the alk?
2) When I did the switch I started to loose all my zoas...but they went slowly. I have never had a problem with zoas. The weird thing is they went in patches as if something was eating them. Also the purple death polys are 100% fine so only my smaller zoas got eaten/ gone. They left the rock entirely not even a trace now just a bunch of clean frag plugs. I talked to Jake and he was thinking the little star fish or a zoa bacteria. I did see one little star fish a week ago and got it out of the tank but never one since. Any other ideas? Also I have not added anything for a good month.
As a side note Jake told me the purple death polys are a different type of zoa then the radio active dragon eyes, pink panthers and all the others i lost.
I just can't seem to get the Alk and Cal correct and a few of the corals have browned out and now white tips from Alk burn, I assume. Any ideas? I don't have a big bio load and my alk and cal seem to go down very slow when things were doing better. Do I need more coral to eat up the alk and cal? I'm trying to figure out what the heck I am doing wrong. not feeding enough, cal and alk bouncing too much, to many water changes for my water volume.
I have clear water, no alge, just a bit of brown film on the glass each day but the magnetic cleaner takes that off. Maybe Jake or Ken or another one of you reef guru can look at everything and tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Side note- one of my sea swirl motors went out. Anyone know how to fix them?
-Also I should be done with the garage renovation soon and move the sump components down to the garage.
