I picked up an orange and green monti cap frag off craigslist. They've been losing color and flesh has been flaking off. My water parameters are below:
Mg - 1425
Ca - 400 (dosed to raise this)
Alk - 10.7
pH - 8.2
SG - 1.027
PO4 - 0 (I'm sure there's some)
NO3 < 20 ppm (cheapo test strip)
NO4 < 0.5 ppm (cheapo test strip)
NH3/NH4 < 0.5 ppm (cheapo test strip)
temp 79-81
All my other softies and LPS are doing fine.
My tank is 30 gal, I run a carbon/GFO reactor, and have a Koralia 2 (I think it's a 2) for flow. My lighting is an AquaticLife T5 VHO fixture, 4x39W.
I read that monti's like light so I put them on the top of the tank, about 1 foot from the fixture. Is that too close, are they getting bleached out? I can't pinpoint any other reasons why they would be dying. I've moved them down to the bottom to see if they'll recover.
Pics aren't that great
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Mg - 1425
Ca - 400 (dosed to raise this)
Alk - 10.7
pH - 8.2
SG - 1.027
PO4 - 0 (I'm sure there's some)
NO3 < 20 ppm (cheapo test strip)
NO4 < 0.5 ppm (cheapo test strip)
NH3/NH4 < 0.5 ppm (cheapo test strip)
temp 79-81
All my other softies and LPS are doing fine.
My tank is 30 gal, I run a carbon/GFO reactor, and have a Koralia 2 (I think it's a 2) for flow. My lighting is an AquaticLife T5 VHO fixture, 4x39W.
I read that monti's like light so I put them on the top of the tank, about 1 foot from the fixture. Is that too close, are they getting bleached out? I can't pinpoint any other reasons why they would be dying. I've moved them down to the bottom to see if they'll recover.
Pics aren't that great
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