alten78
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For quite some time, I thought I was dealing with excess nutrients just based on how often I needed to clean the glass and a little bit of diatoms in low flow areas. I had no real nuisance algae yet thought that all levels of NO3 and PO4 needed to be zero. What I really was doing was starving my coral. What I thought was brown was actually pale tan, it wasn't until late that I realized they were turning white.

Garf Bonsai in the middle top, what was a Lime in the Sky on the left, unknown brown acro on the right, and not exactly sure what is the near bone white acro that had previous encrusted and broken off because I thought was dead, and a red planet on the bottom right.
After reading quite a bit as always (10 years of thinking that po4 and no3 were bad) I started feeding more meatier items and dosing aminos. Fast forward some months and things are looking a bit better

Red planet was moved up, unknown blue acro surprisingly colored up and blew up in growth.

Garf Bonsai...well, that is what it was sold to me as.
Feed those sticks!!!!!

Garf Bonsai in the middle top, what was a Lime in the Sky on the left, unknown brown acro on the right, and not exactly sure what is the near bone white acro that had previous encrusted and broken off because I thought was dead, and a red planet on the bottom right.
After reading quite a bit as always (10 years of thinking that po4 and no3 were bad) I started feeding more meatier items and dosing aminos. Fast forward some months and things are looking a bit better


Red planet was moved up, unknown blue acro surprisingly colored up and blew up in growth.

Garf Bonsai...well, that is what it was sold to me as.
Feed those sticks!!!!!