Help i dont know whats worng!!

[NeverEnough87]

Hi im pretty much new to all of this still. My tank been up for 9 months i have sps n some mushrooms in here and my question is my corals r really growing slow and i cant figure out why.i bought them about 6 months ago and it looks like it havent even grown anything and my mushroom is turning borwn my coral pot does not open please help...im trying to post pictures up but cant figure it out sorry im new to this

. I have 100 gallon 4ft long tank i have 2 hydra 52 about 7 inches above the water the settings are cw 41% violet 61% red and green 32% db and royal 80% uv 32% there on from 9am to 8pm 3 hour ramp time . i am running gfo amd carbon reactors my phospahte 0 nitrate 0 i have refuge i run the light oppsite of my tank light i have jebao wp40 and 25 one is making waves the other is running on else mode my return is mag 1800 gph so my turn over i think is around 60x to 70x i have a uv sterilizer

 

[MidwesternTexan]

What is your Calcium, Magnesium, and Alkalinity?
Why are you running GFO and Carbon?
Do you have a large amount of Macro algae in you sump/fuge?

 

[NWoods]

What is your Calcium, Magnesium, and Alkalinity?

+1
Also, what is the temp, Salinity, pH. Not a huge factor but curious.

 

[NeverEnough87]

I havent gotten the chance to do the cal mag and alk i will be doing it when i get home my temp is 78 salinty is 1.25 ph 8.2

 

[NeverEnough87]

I have cheato but it dosent really grow like how it use to....makes me stressful

 

[NeverEnough87]

Cal 440ppm mag 1240 alk 13.2 dkh

 

[DrBoxedWine]

Following

 

[B.BASH]

Alk is high are you dosing and is alk stable

 

[NeverEnough87]

Yes im dosing and its stable

 

[billdogg]

Other than your alkalinity being higher than I would suggest, your water parameters seem to be fine. Your lighting is more than sufficient as well. Corals do grow slowly, so perhaps you just aren't noticing that they are, indeed, growing? If you could give us a list of what you actually have in there that might help figure things out.

What I did for mine was take pictures when I put them in, and then a year later so I could compare them. Although I knew that some were doing really well, I was quite surprised by how much they all had grown. Top-down photos seem to show growth the best. Ta take mine, I made a simple waterproof lens cover for my camera using a piece of scrap 3" PVC and a small square of acrylic that I glued to one end. The results were pretty amazing.

Here's a couple examples - 1 year ago on the left, today on the right:






hth

 

[Sk8r]

YOu have stony coral, one a plate montipora, which is an sps; others are lps. YOu MUST track alk-cal-mg constantly, or drip kalk. Read Setting UP and look at the Chemistry chapter. Stickies. Up above.