<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10134156#post10134156 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Hurley675
Got any Updates?
All the fish are doing great! Even the Blue Line is now eat mysis. But, my corals are a different story. I went away on vacation (Murphy's Law) and came home to a few dead corals. I think I have a few issues causing this problem.
1. I have a high phosphate level in my tank due to high feeding, and how bad the water is around here causing my RO/DI to get exhausted real fast; then leaching PO4 in the top off tank. I have added a Phosphate media reactor and started using ROWAPHOS. I plan on running this, and carbon 24/7 now. I have already been running carbon 24/7.
I also have been planning on getting a bigger DI unit that I can regen myself, this would help with PO4 in the top off water.
2. My Calcium reactor was set up to feed directly into the sump, this (I feel) would cause the low pH levels I have been noticing at night. So, I moved the effluent of the Calcium Reactor to the skimmer. This will help release any free CO2 into the atmosphere. This will hopefully solve my pH issue. If not, I might have to redesign my kalk tank-mixer.
Since I have high PO4, the other corals are getting white tips. The PO4 has also caused a break-out of nuisance algae.
I also plan on trying to keep up with my 150 gallon monthly water changes.
Anyway, I hope things get better with these changes. And yes, the changes are being made very slow.............
