So, I am having problems with my montiporas. When I started my 40 in July and added coral in August, everything was growing like crazy. My Jedi mind trick tripled in size, my orange cap colored up nice and bright and was doing great, my Setosa was growing, everything was looking super. I did have a problem with low calcium and magnesium in which I lost a rainbow monti. I have remedied this problem. Since that was fixed, I added a mystic monti, a purple digitata, a Chili pepper monti, and a new rainbow. Over the last few months, my chili pepper has lost all of the bright green color and is a very dull green now, my Jedi is almost dead, my rainbow and my mystic are starting to RTN, my purple digital has some bleached spots, my setosa is dying, but my orange cap is thriving. All other corals and clam are growing. I don't know what is going on or what to do to fix it. Here are my parameters.
Temp 77
salinity 1.026
Calcium 420
Magnesium 1480
alk 8.6
ph 8.4
nitrites 0
nitrates 0
ammonia 0
phosphates 0.03
copper 0
My potassium was super low off the charts and have been adding a little every day for about 10 days. I will test again this weekend.
I use 2 T5 bulbs Geissman actinic and actinic + on for 12 hours and a Kessil 350w on for 10 hours with blues at 75% and whites at 30%
i have a refugium with Tina of chaeto and red dragon macro and a protein skimmer.
I dose calcium and magnesium by hand daily and have an ATO that I add my alkalinity increaser to.
I feed daily. Right now I am feeding LRS reef frenzy but just started that a few days ago. Before that I was using Hiroki Mysis, oyster feast, and reef chili. I have not been able to find any pests but have dipped in Coral Dip just in case.
for the most part, I use the water machine at the grocery store that puts the water through a carbon filter, a paper filter a charcoal filter, UV twice, and deionization.
any suggestions would be welcome. Please help. Thanks
Temp 77
salinity 1.026
Calcium 420
Magnesium 1480
alk 8.6
ph 8.4
nitrites 0
nitrates 0
ammonia 0
phosphates 0.03
copper 0
My potassium was super low off the charts and have been adding a little every day for about 10 days. I will test again this weekend.
I use 2 T5 bulbs Geissman actinic and actinic + on for 12 hours and a Kessil 350w on for 10 hours with blues at 75% and whites at 30%
i have a refugium with Tina of chaeto and red dragon macro and a protein skimmer.
I dose calcium and magnesium by hand daily and have an ATO that I add my alkalinity increaser to.
I feed daily. Right now I am feeding LRS reef frenzy but just started that a few days ago. Before that I was using Hiroki Mysis, oyster feast, and reef chili. I have not been able to find any pests but have dipped in Coral Dip just in case.
for the most part, I use the water machine at the grocery store that puts the water through a carbon filter, a paper filter a charcoal filter, UV twice, and deionization.
any suggestions would be welcome. Please help. Thanks
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