audacious1
New member
My tank has been running for about 4 months & so far haven't had luck with lps and some soft coral. Every coral i place is good for like 3 days and then starts to show bad signs like shrinking. I am not going to buy coral until you guys help me find my problem.
Tank info:
-80 gal sumpless standard tank
-100 lbs live rock
-80 lbs live sand
-2 175 watt metal halides with 2 vho super actinics that are hanging about 7-8 inches off the water(i don't know if it's too much or too little light at that height)
-TLF 150 Phosban reactor using npx bioplastics as media
-HOB Octopus Bh-2000 skimmer
-2 koralias 1400 gph
-marineland c220 canister filter
-Digital Aquatics reef keeper lite controller
my parameters:
nitrate 25
phosphate 0.29ppm
alk 280ppm
sg 1.025
ammonia 0
calcium 425
mag 1330
ph 8.2
I have been fighting to keep my ph at 8.2.
i use seachem ph buffer and only helps for a day then my ph drops back to 7.9 and i think that's why my alk is soo high. please help me i really want corals. :worried: oh yeah and if it's my young tank thats the problem, I'm willing to let it mature. thank you!
Tank info:
-80 gal sumpless standard tank
-100 lbs live rock
-80 lbs live sand
-2 175 watt metal halides with 2 vho super actinics that are hanging about 7-8 inches off the water(i don't know if it's too much or too little light at that height)
-TLF 150 Phosban reactor using npx bioplastics as media
-HOB Octopus Bh-2000 skimmer
-2 koralias 1400 gph
-marineland c220 canister filter
-Digital Aquatics reef keeper lite controller
my parameters:
nitrate 25
phosphate 0.29ppm
alk 280ppm
sg 1.025
ammonia 0
calcium 425
mag 1330
ph 8.2
I have been fighting to keep my ph at 8.2.
i use seachem ph buffer and only helps for a day then my ph drops back to 7.9 and i think that's why my alk is soo high. please help me i really want corals. :worried: oh yeah and if it's my young tank thats the problem, I'm willing to let it mature. thank you!