reefmutt
Active member
I would think you probably have a little more light than you need..
photoperiod seems good but maybe the intensity on the leds could come down a bit..
I see absolutely nothing wrong with your parameters- if they are stable.
i think your alk to calcium ratio is perfectly fine and i have pretty much never (on purpose!) had my alk above 7.5 - more often below 7 and i have had nutrients much higher than yours for extended periods of time..
corals do look a bit... not entirely happy.. but not horrible..
they don't seem particularly brown.. but yes, not thriving...
My suspicion is that your old corals are still recovering from your battles with dinos- but just starting to recover and have acclimated to or are not getting as much light as the new frags that may be stressed by too much intensity..
starting nopox will create a new set of parameters for all or your not entirely stable corals to contend with which may throw them all off again..
If you really want to make changes in stages and only one at a time and nuisance algae is not a problem, I'd suggest holding off on nopox and just reducing lighting a bit and give the old and new corals more time to acclimate..
This is assuming you keep parameters nice and steady..
It can take acros several months to recover from the craziness of battling dinos and from light stress..
Also, I have never met a po4 test i have trusted..
last weekend, I used my red sea test, hanna ulr and hanna po4 tests... i got .08, .16, .12 respectively... so now i have an idea of where p is but then again, not really.. as has been suggested above watching trends in results may be better than focusing on one single result..
maybe you just need to give the tank some time... I know, that's the single most annoying thing a reefer can hear... we just want to do something.. after all didn't we get into this hobby to sit around... we are all control freaks!
photoperiod seems good but maybe the intensity on the leds could come down a bit..
I see absolutely nothing wrong with your parameters- if they are stable.
i think your alk to calcium ratio is perfectly fine and i have pretty much never (on purpose!) had my alk above 7.5 - more often below 7 and i have had nutrients much higher than yours for extended periods of time..
corals do look a bit... not entirely happy.. but not horrible..
they don't seem particularly brown.. but yes, not thriving...
My suspicion is that your old corals are still recovering from your battles with dinos- but just starting to recover and have acclimated to or are not getting as much light as the new frags that may be stressed by too much intensity..
starting nopox will create a new set of parameters for all or your not entirely stable corals to contend with which may throw them all off again..
If you really want to make changes in stages and only one at a time and nuisance algae is not a problem, I'd suggest holding off on nopox and just reducing lighting a bit and give the old and new corals more time to acclimate..
This is assuming you keep parameters nice and steady..
It can take acros several months to recover from the craziness of battling dinos and from light stress..
Also, I have never met a po4 test i have trusted..
last weekend, I used my red sea test, hanna ulr and hanna po4 tests... i got .08, .16, .12 respectively... so now i have an idea of where p is but then again, not really.. as has been suggested above watching trends in results may be better than focusing on one single result..
maybe you just need to give the tank some time... I know, that's the single most annoying thing a reefer can hear... we just want to do something.. after all didn't we get into this hobby to sit around... we are all control freaks!
