zachtos Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Background: It's been over 4 months now and I have seen nearly no growth from any of my corals. Most of my xenia died off except for a brown xenia and one pink pulsing that survived. I ***I'm asking to see if you have ideas of what is going on??? tank stats:: 15 gallon long, 2x55 W coralife PC (4 month bulbs), 1 gallon fuge w/ grape/calupera macro, LS, LR, 28 W PC, Remora HOB skimmer w/ maxijet, 2 x150 gph power heads, 22.5 lbs Live Rock, 20 LBs aragonite mixed w/ playsand (about 3 inches). livestock: 3 turbo snail, 1 nas. snail (countless babies), 2 percula clowns, 1 peppermint shrimp (had small aptasia problem),Xenias, Kenya tree, toadstool, hairy mushrooms, star polyps, zoo's and a few other unidentified leathers/mushrooms. maintenance: 10-15% weekly partial water change w/ RO water from walmart, daily 3ml B-Ionic, Bi-Daily Coralife Gold 2.5ml, weekly 1.5ml kent Tech-I iodine, weekly 2.5ml marc weiss vital, weekly strontium + calc (kent) as needed. *2pinch of flakes or 1/4 cube of shrimp/day feeding water tests: sg-1.025 calc-400 ppm kh-11dkh nitrate-20-->35 ppm nitrite-0ppm ammonia-0ppm mg-1500 ppm *(about 1/4" of skimmate cleaned/day) Link to comment
zachtos Posted January 16, 2004 Author Share Posted January 16, 2004 *i also use kent marine salt - my xenia seemed to do better the first month the tank was setup (w/ instant ocean at the time though) Link to comment
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