PAR Meter

PensFan05

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Does anyone have a PAR meter that would be willing to come down and check my lights? Would be willing to send you home with a frag or two. I'm having trouble with some of my SPS. Water parametere are good and lugols dip is not showing any signs of pests. That only leaves me to guess maybe the lights. Even though they are only about six months old. This is driving me crazy! Sucks watching SPS colonies die!
 
SPS are tough. Took me about 2 years of trying to keep them before I successful learned the nuances of keeping them not just alive, but thriving.
 
Yeah Jay this is driving me crazy! I thought I was ready for this. My nano did well for about two years. I had always heard that if you could keep a nano reef then bigger was easier. Lol. Only crash I had with the nano was due to a faulty heater controller malfunctioning. Returned home from work one day to find water was 95 degrees.
Anyone have any other ideas on this? SPS is bleaching. Water parameters are good, no pests, and six month old bulbs. What else should I check?
 
I went through that before I ditched my MH's for T5's ...not sure what was going on there but I knew "something" was not right with my light output ... Now that I have T5's I am mch happier and calmer ...I think I got ahold of "bad" MH bulbs but I have no regrets that I changed to T5's.
 
Jay were you dosing any amino acids or anything?

I dosed amino acids a couple times a week, oyster feast every couple days, magnesium occasionally, and potassium occasionally. I still wonder if it is excess nutrients due to bigger fish bioload and less biopellets. Even after you added more, it can take up to 4 weeks for the bacteria to accumulate on the new peellets. You could try pulling the pellets offline and running GFO and carbon. If your alk is too high for the pellets and causing the bleaching, taking them offline and using a different media like GFO may help.
 
Halides are on for six hours total. Same as you had. I just changed them to start coming on at 1:30-2 and off at 7:30-8. After reading more on these ULNS it appears my problem is I haven't been feeding the coral enough. Alk testings for almost the past two weeks have been 8. I've checked it and had Memfish check it.
The fish I added from my tank were just basically swapped out for the chromis you had I gave to Mike. The two tangs were the new additions.
Looks like maybe a combination of increased load from those two and low pellets and not feeding coral enough. I added the pellets last week and will start feeding more and dosing this week. Sent you a text also.
Thanks,
Chris
 
I found to keep sps stability is the key, don't have large temp, pH swings. If you have a mixed tank be sure you have a good system (resin of some sort) to remove the chemical byproducts of your corals. Corals fight for real estate in the wild, that GSP doesnt care if you paid $200 for that frag it wants the space so figure out if the corals you have in there might be a problem. Be sure and have a steady and stable way to deliver your calcium and alk, I found I get better growth and health by keeping that part as stable as possible. if you notice that the tissue continues to die off, frag it and try to save it. Throw out the dying part of it so you can try to contain it because sometimes it will spread (not always the case but sometime better to be safe then sorry.) And the best thing you can do, have a tank that has been set up for a least a Year!!!!. I found there is nothing easier to keep then a tank that has been set up for a year and is getting regular water changes.
 
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