Coral not growing or spreading

ElLatino

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I'm fairly new to the hobby and still learning the names of the different live stock. I have a 75 gal tank with approx 80 lbs of live rock (mixed) and approx 1" of live sand.

As for lighting I have Coralife's 250 watt canopy. For filtration I have a Eheim (for 100 gal) and a Fuval 304, along with an Aquarium Systems skimmer and a 25 watt UV system.

I currently have 10 different species of soft coral, mushrooms, polyps, and and open brain. My problem is that although everything looks fine, my mushrooms and polyps are not spreading and in general, nothing is getting any bigger.

This particular setup I've had it up for a little over a year now. I am hoping I have significant lighting in the tank as the current canopy does not allow room for anything else.

I'm hoping it has more to do with the additives. I currently use myces, calcium, sea elements, iodine, and other tiems that i can't remember their names at this time.

Can anyone offer me any suggestions or tell me what may be wrong with my setup? Any feedback is appreciated.
 
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can you describe your tank in detail? lights.. dosing... flow...

As for flow, I have the 2 filters, the UV sterlizers is pumping 100 gph, and 2 powerheads (50 gph each).

For the dosing, I apply 1.5 tblspn of calcium per week, I feed one cube of mysis ever other day, DT on the 3 x per week, sea elements 1 x per week along with Stronium (hope I spelled it right) 1 x per week. Iodine goes in 2 x per week.
 
1st off.. if you are only moving some 100gph you need to bump that up for a 75g tank... you want at the very least.. 10x turn over... i have some 25,000gph in my 300g

what lights do you have on your tank?

what are your water parameters? ca, alk, mg, ph, etc
 
So for the UV sterlizer, I should be pumping alot more? I'm currently using the Coralife setup with 250 watts of lighting.

I'll complete a full water test in the morning and post the results as soon as I gether them all.

Thanks!!!
 
I'd saying aim for a good 30x turnover. You can never have too much flow. Unless of course you're blowing your mushroom polyps off the rock :)
 
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