Frogspawn coral issues

[manzionematt]

Hi everyone I have had my frogspawn for 3 years now. since I have put it in my tank it has never closed it started off with 4 heads and now it has around 20. A month ago 5 heads began to close up and died. I did an iodine dip shortly after it lost another head I then started to use fuel a coral supplement twice a week the frogspawn has stopped losing heads but now I have an explosion of brown algae on the glass. Any suggestions?
PH 8
Nitrates 0
Phosphate 0
Ammonia 0
Calcium 360 ppm
Alk 107 ppm
Lighting maxspect 1600k

 

[manzionematt]

Anybody?

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Glad to see you saved your coral!

Other than the obvious, clean the glass? Point a powerhead at the glass, increase cuc? Don't know what you are looking for here in an answer really.

 

[manzionematt]

I was just wondering how I could save the coral with out the excess algae I have to clean the glass once a day now I used to clean it once every two weeks

 

[Newsmyrna80]

Alk 107 ppm? Do you mean 10.7 dkh? Calcium could stand to be increased.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

What do you have for a cuc? Might have to increase the snails to help but I'd point opposing powerheads towards the front glass and give your frogspawn some flow but not a lot. They don't tolerate high flow at all.

Maybe back off on the amount of coral supplement you are using it could be causing the algae bloom. I use Kent Microvert and haven't had any issues (algae bloom) with it and I feed it twice a week.

 

[Reef Bass]

Alk 107 ppm? Do you mean 10.7 dkh?

ppm is another unit of measurement of alkalinity. So is meg/l. There are converters online.

107ppm = 5.992 dkh = 2.14 meg/l.

Alk is low. That can make Euphyllia grumpy. Bring it up slowly to at least 7-8dkh, 125-145ppm.

With alk and ca low, I'm guessing magnesium is too. I suggesting testing for it. Keeping the levels of those three in range is very important for stony corals, including Euphyllia. Alk 7-9dkh, ca 400-450, mag 1300-1350.

 

[manzionematt]

Ya it is 6dkh and any suggestions for the supplement for all of these and I don't have a magnesium test

 

[Webmanny]

100% agreed. My LPS corals suffer when my ALK drops. Buy some buffer to bring it up slowly.

 

[Reef Bass]

...any suggestions for the supplement for all of these...

One can get premade 2 part solutions. B-Ionic comes to mind.

Mix them yourself to save money. Here's a link to Randy Holmes-Farley's original 2 part recipe and here is his improved 2 part recipe.

I get the ingredients for 3 part (alk - sodium bicarbonate, ca - calcium chloride, mag - magnesium chloride and magnesium sulfate) from Bulk Reef Supply.

 

[manzionematt]

Thank you guys for the post I just bought reef fusion from seachem which helps raise both calcium and alk