sil40sx
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Im sitting here in front of my tank pulling my hair out. I dont know what else to do. Please bear with my long post. LOL
My fish are healthy and happy as ever, and softies are growing. My problem is I cant keep a SPS alive. My birdsnest was doing great initially, as you can see in the picture below, it grew tremendously in just 4 months. Thats why I thought Im ready for the next level and bought a digitata frag. Unfortunately it bleached after two weeks. And at the same time, my birdsnest started to RTN or STN (started couple days ago, see second picture). Ugh.
Here's my set up and schedule:
I have a 25g IM lagoon, under one AI prime. Turns on at 2pm to ramp up 100% at 5pm till 10pm, then ramps down to off at 11pm. Jebao WP10 for powerhead. Im using stock return pump and two felt socks (wash once a week), IM ghost desktop skimmer, and IM minimax media reactor with BRS GFO and BRS Carbon ROX wich I replace once a month. I was planning on getting a Radion xr30 (or adding AI prime), but I held off because of the issue I am having. Anyways, I feed my fish a pinch of Hikari seaweed pellets and NLS twice a day, and a pinch of reef caviar every night. Then 2-3 x week with meaty foods like PE mysis and Rods food alternately (corals are getting some too), and reef roids 2-3 times a week. 3 gallons WC once a week. Using RODI (0 TDS) and Red Sea Coral Pro for salt mix. I dont have cyano or diatom (maybe behind the rocks that I cannot see), or on the sand thats barely noticeable.
When I'm trying to search online, it keeps popping out that it could be from Alkalinity swing, but see my water parameters below:
Salinity - 0.25 refractometer
Temp 79-80
Ammonia - 0 API
Nitrate - 0 API
Ph - 7.8 - 8.0 API
Calcium - 445 - 450 Hanna
Alkalinity - 7.44 @ 10am / 7.50 @10pm Hanna
Po4 - 0.04 - 0.06 Hanna
Magnesium - dont have test kit (do I need one if the rest are stable?)
The only thing I dose is Kent Liquid Calcium. I mixed 0.5ml (1/2ml) on 1g ATO which get consumed within 3 days. My Ca hovers from 445-455 every time I test. I dont add the calcium on my ATO after a water change though, I use plain RODI.
Thats pretty much it. If anyone have a suggestion or question, please feel free to chime in. I'm really frustrated
Thanks!
My fish are healthy and happy as ever, and softies are growing. My problem is I cant keep a SPS alive. My birdsnest was doing great initially, as you can see in the picture below, it grew tremendously in just 4 months. Thats why I thought Im ready for the next level and bought a digitata frag. Unfortunately it bleached after two weeks. And at the same time, my birdsnest started to RTN or STN (started couple days ago, see second picture). Ugh.
Here's my set up and schedule:
I have a 25g IM lagoon, under one AI prime. Turns on at 2pm to ramp up 100% at 5pm till 10pm, then ramps down to off at 11pm. Jebao WP10 for powerhead. Im using stock return pump and two felt socks (wash once a week), IM ghost desktop skimmer, and IM minimax media reactor with BRS GFO and BRS Carbon ROX wich I replace once a month. I was planning on getting a Radion xr30 (or adding AI prime), but I held off because of the issue I am having. Anyways, I feed my fish a pinch of Hikari seaweed pellets and NLS twice a day, and a pinch of reef caviar every night. Then 2-3 x week with meaty foods like PE mysis and Rods food alternately (corals are getting some too), and reef roids 2-3 times a week. 3 gallons WC once a week. Using RODI (0 TDS) and Red Sea Coral Pro for salt mix. I dont have cyano or diatom (maybe behind the rocks that I cannot see), or on the sand thats barely noticeable.
When I'm trying to search online, it keeps popping out that it could be from Alkalinity swing, but see my water parameters below:
Salinity - 0.25 refractometer
Temp 79-80
Ammonia - 0 API
Nitrate - 0 API
Ph - 7.8 - 8.0 API
Calcium - 445 - 450 Hanna
Alkalinity - 7.44 @ 10am / 7.50 @10pm Hanna
Po4 - 0.04 - 0.06 Hanna
Magnesium - dont have test kit (do I need one if the rest are stable?)
The only thing I dose is Kent Liquid Calcium. I mixed 0.5ml (1/2ml) on 1g ATO which get consumed within 3 days. My Ca hovers from 445-455 every time I test. I dont add the calcium on my ATO after a water change though, I use plain RODI.
Thats pretty much it. If anyone have a suggestion or question, please feel free to chime in. I'm really frustrated
Thanks!
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