Killing Things

Are you going to get a new nitrate test kit?

 

Relax bro don't be a spaz lol. I think you need to add more fish and be patient.

 

Yup, in this hobby nothing good happens fast!

 

my .02cents, its your biopellets that are causing all your problems. acro's like clean water but not that clean. start dosing AA, and add more fish or feed more. either way the acro's are starving because the biopellets are using up all of there food.

 

best foods I have found so far is cyclopsese and oyster feast . turn pumps off mp40s down and feed em. Now your bio pellet reactor. Have you been running this since you set the tank up? Now I am very much a newb to the hobby but im going to go out on a limb here and say if thats the case you may want to wait a few months before you run something like that just to let your system get better established. I have a sps dominant tank and only just added a gfo reactor after about 4 months.

 

its exactly what i would do. phyto is more for your pods i think and other filter feeders. make sure when you feed that stuff you turn your skimmer off otherwise its wasted, this is just my opinion others may feel differently. if you find after taking the reactor offline your po4 gets a little higher then you like try skimming a little wetter also.

 

+1 Maybe not "too" clean but def clean. Feed the hell out of that tank, that's what biopellets are for remember! Brightwell makes some AA's, and I would also offer rotifers, cyclopeeze, phytoplex, dt's phyto something like that 2-20nm size particles gradually ramp up to 4 times a week or more. I feed the **** out of my tank, that sucker is dirty! acros love it!
You running any carbon?
And what are your phosphates?

 

oh and just slow down the flow on the biopellet reactor, you might really cause some disruption in the feed chain if you take it out all together.

 

YOU SOLD FISHBRAIN!!!  no!!! We need him and his wisdom.

 

I agree that you should be feeding more. One other thing, your Alk is too high for running with biopellets. Get that down around 8 and it should help. When you get into the 9.0+ range, you start getting the white, burnt tips. It slows growth and damages the coral.

--AJ

 

Hey wait everyone, bad color and polyp extension .... with his other params doesn't that scream high nitrates and or phosphates? I think we need those tests. Biopellets or not those are very important things to measure with SPS, especially if they are having problems. Fish are all fine right??

 

How often are you doing water changes?

 

IMO Nitrate and PO4 tests are the first and most important until we know they are OK, then I will be stumped. Nitrite not so important if you have already tested Ammonia. If Nitrite levels were high you would notice it in your fish because Ammonia would have also been high at some point. Plus I don't believe it effects coral much but could be wrong as high levels of nitrite in an established reef aquarium are rare and would be pretty obvious. If you want a recommendation on good easy to read Nitrate and PO4 kits Seachems are very easy to use and read.

 

I was there the other day and can tell you just from eyeball the tank is verry verry clean almost sterile. Chad add more fish man and feed them alot. The best sps food is fish poo! I speak from experence man I grew some colonys that were 10in across on pure fish poo.