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Right. I wasn't testing alk as religiously as the other two, and I think that was a mistake.

Well, I have been going on this odyssey for a month or so now, and it hasn't been fun. I just hope it saves me in the long run. Much of it tracked here the issues I'm having: https://www.bareefers.org/forum/threads/not-looking-good-caulastraea-with-tissue-necrosis.26596/ My coral frags seemed...

So latest update...parameters are under control. Tank still looking ugly with reddish brown film algae on glass and hair algae growing. Some coral seem to be doing better or even thriving like zoa, blastos, darth maul porites, lithophyllon, and a monti. Other LPS, on the other hand, not so...

I'd like to get in line for this

I'll check that out, but I don't think so. No silicon. I run RO/DI. But you never know. Curious what kind of Alk drop would bother LPS? I know my PO4 dropped to 0, and I know Alk went down to 8.1 and now is around 8.9.

I had zero NO3, so started dosing that. Then the phosphate bottomed out. So had to dose phosphate to get any kind of reading. The phosphate was around .08 finally for a handful of days. And sorry it went from .08 to .14 ppm. I missed a decimal point, which is no small thing here. Edited the...

Photoperiod: https://www.aquaillumination.com/signature_series/david-saxby The PO4 was an unusual spike of a reading of 1.4 last night. I am using Hanna ULR. I had been in the range of .08-.11 before then. I have been dosing Na3PO4 to get PO4.

So latest update. Parameters have been steady for about a week NO3 5-7 ppm PO4 .08-.14 ppm Alk 8.8-9.1 Ca 430-450 Chaeto continues to grow well. Seeing more coralline. Zoas look good. Porites frag and Monti frag look OK, though I wouldn't say flourishing. Now the bad news. Most LPS are...

There was a whale just hanging out nearby during the whole dive. Amazing lava formation and great viz b/c there's no rain (and thus runoff) from Ni'ihau.

One of my biggest regrets was I was supposed to do a dive at Manta Point in Bali, but my partner got really sunburned the day before and felt sick that morning. I should have ditched him. The divemaster said it was the most epic day at Manta Point in his career. I went diving in Thailand, and...

I dive. I did a liveaboard on the Great Barrier Reef a few years ago. I should find the video and pictures.

Chaeto is actually doing great now. Was basically down to a small strand that is now a loose baseball size ball. Coralline is definitely growing now too. Pods are really taking off. That's what gives me hope things are going in the right direction despite some corals struggling. Hoping this is...

@bp123987 I have had the tank up for 9 months. It was used so came with live rock and sand that i added to, but with the pandemic and all-around being busy with two young kids, it has been slow going getting much into the tank. It had gone through an ugly phase earlier, and i thought i had...

Dino cup test below Before After Can't see any reforming of anything. Was this way after a few hours and overnight. Here's a photo of algae in the tank. Is this cyano? And what is the green algae. It's harder to get off than hair algae. Not as slimy and seems to have rooted into the rock.

Everything is on the sand, and I only have my LEDs running. Probably range from 120-180 par. Not too different than what they were under during quarantine. These are all frags and noticing green algae growth on the edges of the frag plug and now some are starting to have algae on the frag itself.

So an update here. The brown algae has reduced quite a bit, but there's still some around. Did a water cup test last week and saw very small strands reform after a handful of hours but not much. Going to try it again today. Green hair algae seems like it's what is coming back to take over...

No phosphate removing media. I run a small amount of carbon in a filter sock.

I'll check Mg again, but every time I've checked it has been slightly high. I use Fritz blue box, and Mg always runs a bit high in my tank. As far as feeding, I spot feed reef roids, so it's not broadcast and a ton I put in. I also occasionally feed some mysis to the acans and blasto.

I feed the corals 2-3x a week. I just don't have a ton of livestock in the tank right now.

I only have two clowns in the tank, so it's a bit tough to feed that much for the size of the tank. I've been trying.