diamond4100
New member
I am in need of a bit of help from the everyone who knows about sps. Here is my problem I have had my tank up and running since Sept 2005. I added my first sps corals about 2 months ago with no problems 4 acros and 1 milli from seacrop. All of the frags have encrusted and seem to be doing great. Then about a month ago I added 3 more acros and 3 monti's They are doing good to and the acro's started to encrust not seeing any growth out of the monti's. Then 2 weeks ago I ordered 3 acros and all of them RTN'd but one. I got a replacement shippment the following week with 3 more acro's after 2 days 2 of the acros started to RTN so I tried to frag them with no luck. The other acro doesn't look so good kind of bleached a bit but hanging on. Then a day after all that crap happen one of the frags from a previous order RTN on me. I still have the original 4 acros and milli that I got from seacrop but all the others that I got from the same distributer I won't say thier name have had RTN problems in my tank.
Here is a run down of my equipment and stock
as of now
2 false perc's
1 yellow tang
1 lawnmower blenny
various snails and hermits
green carpet anemone
rose bubble tip
blue xenia
maze brain
sun coral
1 arcan
10 acros
1 milli
3 monti's
I have 125 gallon tank
3 250 watt metal halides reef grow bulbs 6 months old
2 30 watt antics 3 weeks old
Aqua C EV 180
Chiller
UV sterilizer
6060 tunze and a MAG 24 for return 1 maxi jet 1200
55 gallon sump
phosphate reactor and one with carbon
use kent phos sponge and ROWA
Sea Chem Reef salt
RO/DI water
have a 10 hour halide photo and a 12 antic photo
I feed coral life invert food and DT's oyster eggs daily
Temp runs between 78 and 80 during the day and 78.5 at night.
Ammonia 0
NO2 0
NO3 0
Phosphate < 0.02
Calcium 400
Alk 9 Dkh
PH 8.3
I am not seeing very much growth on any of my sps its like they encrusted quickly and then stopped I do weekly water changes
I don't seem much of a drop in calcium over the period of a week.
I just want to get this RTN thing out of the way and done. Am I expecting to much out of my corals or should they be growing faster.
Here is a run down of my equipment and stock
as of now
2 false perc's
1 yellow tang
1 lawnmower blenny
various snails and hermits
green carpet anemone
rose bubble tip
blue xenia
maze brain
sun coral
1 arcan
10 acros
1 milli
3 monti's
I have 125 gallon tank
3 250 watt metal halides reef grow bulbs 6 months old
2 30 watt antics 3 weeks old
Aqua C EV 180
Chiller
UV sterilizer
6060 tunze and a MAG 24 for return 1 maxi jet 1200
55 gallon sump
phosphate reactor and one with carbon
use kent phos sponge and ROWA
Sea Chem Reef salt
RO/DI water
have a 10 hour halide photo and a 12 antic photo
I feed coral life invert food and DT's oyster eggs daily
Temp runs between 78 and 80 during the day and 78.5 at night.
Ammonia 0
NO2 0
NO3 0
Phosphate < 0.02
Calcium 400
Alk 9 Dkh
PH 8.3
I am not seeing very much growth on any of my sps its like they encrusted quickly and then stopped I do weekly water changes
I don't seem much of a drop in calcium over the period of a week.
I just want to get this RTN thing out of the way and done. Am I expecting to much out of my corals or should they be growing faster.
