ok guys...tks,
my tank is stable, my nitrate and phosphate levels have increased because i wanted them to, they were too low...as in my corals had no color and were starving. i took the rox offline because it was stripping too much out of the water, i'll be putting some back online soon, but not yet. my salinity, temp, alk, mag, and cal are solid and stable. i had my nitrates at zero and phospahtes at.02, too low in my opinion, so i shut down my extra filtration in my reactors until the levels increased. Its working too because all of my corals that were pale are now coloring back up and have decent PE, and those that were not pale have darker richer colors and better PE, there are a few threads on this in the SPS section. this nutrient increase has caused an algea bloom because i have no real cleanup crew, i had no real cuc because i had so little algae (and my mystery wrasse likes kilkling snails), because my tank was too clean...theres a sequence of events that are closely tied together.
theres no crash going on, the nem is not sick, its just looking for its ideal spot (obvioulsy), what i couldnt tell was whether or not it was light or flow that was making it move, im guessing flow because before i re-did my rocks the nem had less flow, once the re-scape was done it was gettting hit with more flow, then it moved the first time; lights have not changed at all. I didnt like where it settled, and it was still getting bombarded with flow, so im thinking thinking thats why it moved, time will tell....its been in this new spot since Friday, and i fed it some fresh shrimp this weekend.
I appreciate the insights, but my tank is not sick or crashing , its actually doing really well and responding in a way that i expected it to after the changes i made. I've been researching my SPS coloration issues for a while, and when i made the reactor changes, i knew an algae bloom was coming, just didnt know it would bloom so quick. the cyano is there because i have some deadspots, i made some flow changes last night that should alleviate the deadspots...only other thought i had was that its about 8 months on my current bulbs, so i know its about time to replace them, maybe the PAR levles dropped, but, the nem hasnt really made an effort to go higher in the tank, thankfully, so im still thinking its a flow thing...
