Whats wrong with my tank
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Best way is to check with a Par meter. I know I supplemented my LEDs in the rear with T5s and the reading is pretty shocking when I did the measurements.
Ha, after dosing AA's I am seeing some cyano in my sump. I am going to add a small powerhead in that compartment to increase the flow.
My temp is set at 79.0 and I think it rises to about 79.7 by the end of the day.
I would think my light setup should be fine. The ATI fixture with my bulb configuration seems to be a proven setup. I will start lowering the light again and see how things adjsut. But like I said before, my bubble tip seems to like to stay away from direct light hinting that I have plenty of light on the sandbed. I could be wrong though, maybe I have a picky anemone.
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I read a great article in Coral about this.... A full spectrum is needed...I don't want to go find the article though
SnowManSnow;794831 wrote: I read a great article in Coral about this.... A full spectrum is needed...I don't want to go find the article though
Plenty of people use the same bulb combo I use with the same fixture and have flourishing tanks. Its definitely not the bulbs themselves, too many people run the same setup.
I wanted to update this thread.
So my tank is now doing amazing. My alk was higher than I wanted so I let the tank ride for about 2-3 weeks with no water changes to allow the alk to drop. At the same time I had a small cyano outbreak so right before my water change I dosed with chemiclean with my skimmer off for 2-3 days.
After a 5g water change my alk was at a 8.5 and there was no cyano algae anymore. I did my regular test and noticed that my nitrates jumped up to about a 5ppm from a 0ppm according to Salifert. I assume this was from my skimmer being offline for a couple days and 3 weeks in between a water change.
What I was surprised about was my zoas started looking better and better. Deep bright colors, polyps fully open, and all my colonies went into a massive growth spurt. My red hornets in particular threw out 4 new polyp bumps within a week. The few started SPS I have are growing like never before as well.
So, either cyano was bothering corals, alk was too high, or I had so little nutrients that the corals were starving. Either way I'm excited.
So my tank is now doing amazing. My alk was higher than I wanted so I let the tank ride for about 2-3 weeks with no water changes to allow the alk to drop. At the same time I had a small cyano outbreak so right before my water change I dosed with chemiclean with my skimmer off for 2-3 days.
After a 5g water change my alk was at a 8.5 and there was no cyano algae anymore. I did my regular test and noticed that my nitrates jumped up to about a 5ppm from a 0ppm according to Salifert. I assume this was from my skimmer being offline for a couple days and 3 weeks in between a water change.
What I was surprised about was my zoas started looking better and better. Deep bright colors, polyps fully open, and all my colonies went into a massive growth spurt. My red hornets in particular threw out 4 new polyp bumps within a week. The few started SPS I have are growing like never before as well.
So, either cyano was bothering corals, alk was too high, or I had so little nutrients that the corals were starving. Either way I'm excited.
