Paul,PaulM said:Anyone in the Brick area possibly have time to come and take a look at my tank? I cannot figure out why some corals do great while others do not. Any help would be great to try to get to the bottom of this.
Olivier said:Paul,
what is your water parameters (as of right now)? Calcium 500, Alkilinity 8.6, Magnesium ?, phosphate ?,Nitrite 0, pH 8.1, salinity .025, water temperature high peak 78 and low peak 78
how often do you do water change? 25-30 gal every other week
how many percent in respect to total system volume?
what salt are you using? Reef crystals
what light are you using? LED
how many hour of light on? 8 hrs
what is water circulation do you use? (internal pump like vortech or tunze or external close loop) 2 MP40
what skimmer do you use and how is it perform? Ev180 working well
list of bio form in your tank such as fishes and coral. 2 clown 1 tang 1 blenny 1 basslet
any dosage? such as brightwell or zeovit or vodka dosing? No
the more info the better for us to help you.
base on my experience, when my tank has problem such as algae and color lost in coral? I either has nitrite or phosphate spike. taht is with my tank. other might have bugs that eat your coral, not enough light, water parameter all out of wack.
if the tank is taht bad, do a large water change and continue weekly water change with correction of water parameters to its optimum level and the problem will be gone by itself
redfishbluefish said:Paul, I’ve got it figured out….it’s those crappy Chinese LEDs you have.
But here’s what I’m willing to do. I’ll give you my IceCap system for your crappy LEDs. I’m talking a 660 and 430 ballast with six 4 foot T5bulbs with endcaps and reflectors. Now that’s a great deal. I hear IceCap is an UP-AND-COMING business! : I know, I’m just a nice guy. ;D
In all seriousness, could it be your switching out your lighting for the new fixtures? ….An acclimation to the new lights??
Baxreefs said:Paul
Can I leave two 30 g barrels at your house for Sid?
PaulM said:Great. What do you think the best thing would be to bring water in without messing any tests up? Fish bag?
dnov99 said:PaulM said:Great. What do you think the best thing would be to bring water in without messing any tests up? Fish bag?
Do you have unused ziplock bags?? Double up a quart sized one.