Why don't my SPS do well in my tank

Cosmik1

Cosmik1

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Hello Everyone,
I have a question maybe someone can shed some light on. All my corals we well euphyllias, zoanthids, mushrooms split like crazy, Blastos, acans, but for the life of me I can't nap keep SPS corals alive for too long. They bleach always evry single time. Calcium 480, mg1300, alk O9.5, salinity 1.026, using a Hydra 32 upgraded from a prime HD, phosphate 0.1. any ideas? Water changes on a biweekly basis 25 %

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What do you use for water changes? Don't trust any shops water. Make your own using a RODI System at home. Replace the CARBON Blocks with Chlorimine Busters and add a dual chamber DI at the end. I promise all your issues will disappear. (Hopefully)
 
I have a marine Depot kleanwater RODI system. I thought it was that too but nope that didn't help

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Typically what was happening to me is it would start with burnt tips and get worse from there. Hope its the same. Check back in after a month and let me know if that was the fix.
 
.1 phosphate is a bit on high side, how old is ur tank? What about ur no3

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You need to do some serious testing..
ICP test
RO test
Salinity test
Equipment tests etc....
You will eventually find the issue.
When I started sps I was the same way, had issues that weren't being addressed because I was not looking past the normal tests.(phos,nitrate,call,all,mag etc...)

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Cosmik1 said:
Hello Everyone,
I have a question maybe someone can shed some light on. All my corals we well euphyllias, zoanthids, mushrooms split like crazy, Blastos, acans, but for the life of me I can't nap keep SPS corals alive for too long. They bleach always evry single time. Calcium 480, mg1300, alk O9.5, salinity 1.026, using a Hydra 32 upgraded from a prime HD, phosphate 0.1. any ideas? Water changes on a biweekly basis 25 %

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How long has this tank been running for?
 
What about your temp and the swings?

But most important with sps is alk. You want to keep it stable as possible. Don't let it swing more the 0.5 dkh a week. I feel for most part heavily stocked sps tanks do best with calcium reactors because it's constantly dosing 24/7. But if your other corals are doing well then I'm not thinking it could be an alk issue
 
Light intensity ? Low nutrients ? What SPS are you trying, specifically? Post pics of the ones that aren't making it. What test kits are you using ? Are you running GFO?
 
Hello everyone thanks for the input. I use Hanna instrument checkers. My tanknwas getting to like 80/82. I bought a chiller to help with that. So I was having a temp swings. I was trying bird's nest and digis and some acros.

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Our tanks reach 83 on a daily basis nowadays. Our phosphates are at .15. We have zero issues with SPS.
Your water parameters look good. I would imagine you're having low nutrient issues, or incorrect light intensities, or water quality issues. You could do an ICP test for metals although when we did one, zero metals showed up, although we knew they were present. Running metasorb and a few other metal adsorb media cleared up our issues within a week or two. Funny side effect of having high metals was our rose bubble tip anemones would split like crazy, constantly.
 
bvysochin said:
Our tanks reach 83 on a daily basis nowadays. Our phosphates are at .15. We have zero issues with SPS.
Your water parameters look good. I would imagine you're having low nutrient issues, or incorrect light intensities, or water quality issues. You could do an ICP test for metals although when we did one, zero metals showed up, although we knew they were present. Running metasorb and a few other metal adsorb media cleared up our issues within a week or two. Funny side effect of having high metals was our rose bubble tip anemones would split like crazy, constantly.
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Thanks, my nem hasn't split but my mushrooms do all the time

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Acclimation? Would taking an sps frag from a system with alk of 8 and just floating for temp, but not dripping for shock, and introducing into a tank that's 9.5 cause a problem?


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I highly recommend ICP testing. I dealt with sps issues for years. I found that adding iodine was the key for me and water changes. Iodine is easily depleted in our high skimmer type reefs. I have a 220g and I add 3 drops of lugols every week.
Couple things:
1) do you use a doser? (if not, then you might consider adding)
2) how often do you test? (I have tested every day when things get weird).
3) what is you salinity and how do you know?
4) do you know the par levels within your tank?

The easiest way to fix most thinks is to do a ton of water changes. I moved to changing water every week about 1 year ago and things have never been better. I do a 13% change every week.

Hope this helps and next time you want to try sps, hit me up. I will give you some easy stuff that you can try before you spend money.
Jeff
 
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