Ynotme4886
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Friend of mine sent me a haddoni carpet and a hosting bonded pair of blk saddles a few months ago.
Carpet started out about mid height on a bit of rocks and stayed there for a few months but I expected it to eventually move to the sand bed.
So it moved and picked a spot between 2 rock formations and it has never looked great in its new spot. Its foot is buried under a rock and has a firm grip on the glass bottom of the tank.
Its about half the size it was when it was out in the open and now likes to recede under the rock until it looks like it is going to die.
It shrunk so bad yesterday I thought it was done for.
It looked like this
Today it is back open (opened back up last night)
Here is the tank info as of this morning.
125g reef ready with 72" outer orbit.... 3-150w 20k halides and 8 39w t-5.
Flow... 2 tunzee (660 gph) 2 korlia #2's one Korlia #3 one Korlia #4 two mag 9.5 return pumps and one mag 9.5 on a 1/3 hp chiller (3 mag 9.5 pumps total)
Tank is a mixed reef with mostly zoo's.
I only feed corals once a week with cyclopeze and the only thing I dose is baking soda for alk.
Now for the water specs
PH 8.0
calc 450
mag 1480
alk 3.77
nitrate 2
nitrite 0
ammonia 0
phos 0
salinity 1.026
I do a 25 GAL W/C every two weeks and use trop marin pro salt.
Was thinking about changing the center bulb over the carpet from the current 20k to a 10k bulb to see if its a par issue.
Any help or advice would be a big help
Thanks
Carpet started out about mid height on a bit of rocks and stayed there for a few months but I expected it to eventually move to the sand bed.
So it moved and picked a spot between 2 rock formations and it has never looked great in its new spot. Its foot is buried under a rock and has a firm grip on the glass bottom of the tank.
Its about half the size it was when it was out in the open and now likes to recede under the rock until it looks like it is going to die.
It shrunk so bad yesterday I thought it was done for.
It looked like this
Today it is back open (opened back up last night)
Here is the tank info as of this morning.
125g reef ready with 72" outer orbit.... 3-150w 20k halides and 8 39w t-5.
Flow... 2 tunzee (660 gph) 2 korlia #2's one Korlia #3 one Korlia #4 two mag 9.5 return pumps and one mag 9.5 on a 1/3 hp chiller (3 mag 9.5 pumps total)
Tank is a mixed reef with mostly zoo's.
I only feed corals once a week with cyclopeze and the only thing I dose is baking soda for alk.
Now for the water specs
PH 8.0
calc 450
mag 1480
alk 3.77
nitrate 2
nitrite 0
ammonia 0
phos 0
salinity 1.026
I do a 25 GAL W/C every two weeks and use trop marin pro salt.
Was thinking about changing the center bulb over the carpet from the current 20k to a 10k bulb to see if its a par issue.
Any help or advice would be a big help
Thanks