Reef Bruh's 600 Gallon Upgrade

well, what you're doing is working - they all look fat and healthy!

 

Looks great man!!

 

Thank you both ofk and PD.

 

The bulbs are getting old on the T5 fixture over the frag tank so the money I could get in bulbs I got a couple LED fixtures. I will lower them to acclimate.

 

Is the room painted blue too?

Nice! IMHO- good call on the LED's- I use the full spectrum/multi color, dimmable model off Ebay and Amazon.
I grew coral well with my older- blue and white only, non dimmable LEDs;
With my new ones- I'm having explosive growth- same params.
It's so nice tweaking the dimmers too.

 

Wow Bruh your tanks are really looking good man!!! Fish seem fat and happy and I'm sure the corals will love the new LEDs. How are you feelin these days?

 

Yes the room is painted like the background blue used on the back of aquariums.

Parameters are in check so I hope to get mad growth too.

 

Thanks B. I've been doing a whole lot better. 2 hernia surgeries later I'm ok. Tank has been getting better since my recovery has been improved. I can't wait to get the real lights and find magnets to hold power heads in place.

 

Ok this is late but still disturbing and confused.



Like normal, Friday or Saturday I test my water parameters before I do a water change. I went from weekly water changes to biweekly because my nitrates and phosphates were 0 ppms for a little longer than a month. The past 6-8 weeks since the biweekly water changes the nitrates and phosphates have been averaging +/-1 ppm of nitrates and phosphates have been averaging .05 ppms. During this time the top three have been:



Calcium - 450

Alkalinity - 8.3

Magnesium - 1350(note I manually dose magnesium on occasion to to keep it at this level and I believe I will have to add more neomag to achieve this level.



Fast forward to Saturday, I go to clean the frag tank and notice my red dragon, yellow milli, and unnamed acro dead. I check my nitrates and phosphates and they are where I just mentioned. Next I test my alk and it is 6.65 with the Hanna and 6.7 with salifert. Does anyone know how my alk dropped 2 ppms in a week? All the other acros show some stress but there still is some polyp extension.



Please help me understand thank you for your input.

 

Sorry to hear about the losses Wayne. I'll be curious to hear other's input as well. The first thing that comes to mind is if you happened to have some false readings the last few weeks on you alk tests.

In sure you have checked, but are your tests expired?

Also, do you test the new water for your water changes before adding it to the tank? Did you happen to start on a new box/bucket of salt? Could be there was somehow a reduced amount of all in your new salt.

Just a few things to check if you haven't already.

Hope you find the culprit soon...