For the last fee weeks I've been helping a friend with his 300g tank, mostly lps and softies. He's been having issues with lps dying/ melting away over a 3-8 week period para maters were okish when I first took readings and have improved some since.
3 weeks ago
Alk 8.6
Ca 500
Mg 1550
No3 50
Po4 o.00
Sg 1.028/9!
Began with removing about 20g of water to drop salinity over two weeks and quit dosing ca and mag
Now
8.3
480
1475
40-50
0.00
1.026
Some of the lps that have looked bad for months are looking bette/ tissues are fuller. Some new acquisitions ,6-8 weeks ago not so much. I think it's mostly due to the salinity spike. He has tried sps, montis and pocilipora, several times in last few months and all perish in a few weeks, probably the salinity.
Right now I'm planning on holding steady and doing water changes to get things back into parameters. And adding some amino acids to help the lps. Right now feeding around 16 cubes of lifeline mysis and cyclopeeze combined a day, and a lot of gfo and biopelets. I'm thinking nutrient starved as no algae grows on the glass and po4 is 0.00. So I took the gfo reactor offline to bost po4 to 0.03 and help the biopellets pull down nitrates as po4 is probably limiting. Well see what it looks like in a few days. I'll post some pics to follow.
3 weeks ago
Alk 8.6
Ca 500
Mg 1550
No3 50
Po4 o.00
Sg 1.028/9!
Began with removing about 20g of water to drop salinity over two weeks and quit dosing ca and mag
Now
8.3
480
1475
40-50
0.00
1.026
Some of the lps that have looked bad for months are looking bette/ tissues are fuller. Some new acquisitions ,6-8 weeks ago not so much. I think it's mostly due to the salinity spike. He has tried sps, montis and pocilipora, several times in last few months and all perish in a few weeks, probably the salinity.
Right now I'm planning on holding steady and doing water changes to get things back into parameters. And adding some amino acids to help the lps. Right now feeding around 16 cubes of lifeline mysis and cyclopeeze combined a day, and a lot of gfo and biopelets. I'm thinking nutrient starved as no algae grows on the glass and po4 is 0.00. So I took the gfo reactor offline to bost po4 to 0.03 and help the biopellets pull down nitrates as po4 is probably limiting. Well see what it looks like in a few days. I'll post some pics to follow.