Water parameters LPS vs SPS

[hbrochs]

Hello, I was interested to hear your thoughts on water parameters and how they might (or might not) be different for an SPS tank vs LPS tank.

I have an Innovative Marine SR-80 shallow reef tank going for six months. Corals seemed to be doing well, and then I got a green hair algae outbreak. I began running GFO in a reactor and that cleared up the algae, but my corals are not open as much as they were. I'm thinking my water is a little too clean right now, and I've been trying to feed a little more as well as slowed down the flow on the GFO reactor. I've noticed that quite a few Tank of the Months have what looks like a high fish load. Is this in order to create more coral food?

How do you all find the balance of just the right amount of nutrients?

Thanks,

Howard

 

[Voodoo Corals]

Take go off slowly and rely on your clean up crew and skimmer. Don't over feed. Good luck and check back in....l.

 

[lonzoencho]

How much/ What kind of GFO are you running? Generally strong skimming allows a good balance between fish load and waste levels. (Many other factors included). Can you give more details such as parameters, corals in question, anyother changes, etc?

 

[hbrochs]

I have a skimmer, running ROWA in GFO reactor, about half a cup.

Mg 1300
Ca 420
Alk 9.5
Specific Gravity 1.026
Temp 78
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0

RODI water
10% water change once a week

Four snails
Three red leg hermit crabs
Large bubble tip anemone
Mated pair of clownfish
Two chalk bass
Two Firefish
Two clown gobies
Frogspawn
Clam
Fox coral
Pulsing zenia
Green star polyps
Sps acropora frag, Monti frag

The SPS looks the worst, frogspawn not opening much
Zenia pretty small.

The rest looks ok

 

[hbrochs]

This was a couple of weeks ago

This was a couple of weeks ago