rcmike
Active member
Hey guys, I have been haveing a little bad luck with some sps lately. The colors have been really dull lately for a while. For the last few months polyp extension has been going way down and in the last month or so I have lost a couple of colonies to STN I believe. Today I went down and checked on the tank and noticed a few other corals that were showing signs of recession. One was a small humilis colony and the other was a montipora digitata of all things. I have had the monti for many years and it has been through everything with no signs of any problems. I think I could pour bleach in the tank and it would live. I have checked everything and the only thing I can find out of wack is the phosphate is pretty high. I couldn't tell on my crappy test kit but it looks like it is between .5 and 1 somewhere. I got some phosphate remover (phoslock-iron based) and have made sure my skimmer is working properly. I have read about some having issues with phosphate removers but I was having problems before hand. I am not sure what the phosphate is right now since I ran out of one of the reagents in the test kit. I will see if I can get a new test kit tomorrow. Can anyone recommend a good phosphate kit that is available locally? The whole tank it looking very good besides the sps. Does anyone have any ideas what else to check for? The other things I checked were:
Calcium: 400
Alkalinity: 9.0dkh
No nitrate, ammonia, nitrite
I am very confused. Sorry if my post looks jumbled. Today was a rough day and my brain hurts. :rolleye1:
Calcium: 400
Alkalinity: 9.0dkh
No nitrate, ammonia, nitrite
I am very confused. Sorry if my post looks jumbled. Today was a rough day and my brain hurts. :rolleye1: