Need help trouble shooting...
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block head
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No offense to cf, phosphate test is probably poo. Maybe check mag. Double check salinity with calibration fluid. Water quality is about the only thing you can control. Tom does a hell of a job at trs with tap. He also performs big donkey water changes.. water quality issue is my best guess.
Water change size?
Water change size?
I'm not super experienced, but I'd do 10% to 25% water changes -- minimum -- every week.
I've got a 20 gallon. After you take out rock, sand, etc, I'm guessing I've got about 17 or less gallons of water. I do 5 gallon water changes every week. What's that, about 30% or so?
My zoas grow like a weed.
...just my two cents.
Hope it helps.
Water change size?
I'm not super experienced, but I'd do 10% to 25% water changes -- minimum -- every week.
I've got a 20 gallon. After you take out rock, sand, etc, I'm guessing I've got about 17 or less gallons of water. I do 5 gallon water changes every week. What's that, about 30% or so?
My zoas grow like a weed.
...just my two cents.
Hope it helps.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
if
if
you're doing regular water changes with one of the popular "reef salt mixes" chances are that you're Mg levels are fine....
but you won't really know until you use a Mg test
if
you're doing regular water changes with one of the popular "reef salt mixes" chances are that you're Mg levels are fine....
but you won't really know until you use a Mg test
Willistein
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Still nothing growing with the new RO system? Ditch the leather.
johno4
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Yep, still nothing. Leather looks like crap now, never fully opens up. Blasto, duncan and the leather never seem to open up fully. Salinity crept up (1.028) as my refracto wasn't calibrated. I have this fixed and am running at 1.024 right now as per suggested by Tom. That was almost 2 weeks ago and still no change. In addition to fixing the salinity issue, Tom also suggested I only run 2 of my 4 bulbs to let corals recover. Again, I have seen no improvement in anything :sad2: Running out of ideas...:uhoh3:
Willistein
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I would suspect the leather.
Willistein
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John, what's the red stuff in your refugium, a sponge?
johno4
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Red stuff is red lava rock. it was removed over a month ago. It had been used for years in my fish only tank, I know it could have been an issue so I removed it. I also began running Cuprisorb when it was pulled just incase it leached anything. No change for the better or worse since removing that rock and running cuprisorb.
Willistein
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Probably at this point, you are doing the right things, and it's just going to take time. After a large water change, do you notice anything look a little more expanded - like the next day?
I would maybe take the refugium off-line - I don't think it's really doing anything for you, and I don't like the look of that brown algae.
I would maybe take the refugium off-line - I don't think it's really doing anything for you, and I don't like the look of that brown algae.
Willistein
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what kind of substrate?
Willistein
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I'm not sure what's going on. Like they say: good things happen slowly, and bad things happen quickly. Whatever screwed up your water (if that's what it is) could be slow to leach back out of the rock and be removed through water changes.
Or the leather is ****ed off.
Or the leather is ****ed off.
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