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Thinning Tips...urgent help please, thanks!
Hi All,
Just after some thoughts on why some of my acros are thinning at the tips only?????
I changed my rocks out about 1.5 weeks ago and late last week i noticed that the tips where thinning, i thought it could have been my dosing (0.5 ML of zeostart daily and 2 drops of food and 4 drops start every other day). 125G. But the dosing is as per the guide lines, in fact a bit lower. I use less food as 4 drops gives me massive amounts of algae on the glass.
I stopped my dosing and had to go away for the last 3 days for work. Upon return the tips seem worse and has occured on more colonies?
I tested my water, the PO4 has further droped to 0.05 (was 0.06 last week) with the hanna. The corals look brighter but the thinning tips has me worried.
Other things that i tried was removing carbon and in it's place put purigen. The water is just as clear, but the PO4 have are now at the lowest and they seem to be dropping further. Do you think purigen is the problem? I have problems with all the carbons i have leaching PO4, and this is the last thing i want with the zeo system.
All other test are OK, except my KH once again. It was sitting low at 5.4 DKH last week and i added Seachem Reef Buffer to raise it to 8 DKH. I tested it again today and it was 4.6 DKH? No idea why it's dropping so much. My PH drops to 7.8 at night and goes up to 8.2 at the end of the photo period. This seems in the normal range.
I having problems getting my water drip rate right on my Korralin CA Reactor. If i get the water rate low around 60 drops a min and co2 at 15 drops a min, it always seems to stop? Then the CO2 just colects in the reactor. This may be the problem. If i can tweak it so i get a DKH of 25 or more, then maybe this will stabalise the tank DKH?
Anyone got any ideas if the low DKH would cause the coral tips to thin or would it be the purigen?
There seems to be no effects on the bases, just the tips only.
Cheers
Che
Just after some thoughts on why some of my acros are thinning at the tips only?????
I changed my rocks out about 1.5 weeks ago and late last week i noticed that the tips where thinning, i thought it could have been my dosing (0.5 ML of zeostart daily and 2 drops of food and 4 drops start every other day). 125G. But the dosing is as per the guide lines, in fact a bit lower. I use less food as 4 drops gives me massive amounts of algae on the glass.
I stopped my dosing and had to go away for the last 3 days for work. Upon return the tips seem worse and has occured on more colonies?
I tested my water, the PO4 has further droped to 0.05 (was 0.06 last week) with the hanna. The corals look brighter but the thinning tips has me worried.
Other things that i tried was removing carbon and in it's place put purigen. The water is just as clear, but the PO4 have are now at the lowest and they seem to be dropping further. Do you think purigen is the problem? I have problems with all the carbons i have leaching PO4, and this is the last thing i want with the zeo system.
All other test are OK, except my KH once again. It was sitting low at 5.4 DKH last week and i added Seachem Reef Buffer to raise it to 8 DKH. I tested it again today and it was 4.6 DKH? No idea why it's dropping so much. My PH drops to 7.8 at night and goes up to 8.2 at the end of the photo period. This seems in the normal range.
I having problems getting my water drip rate right on my Korralin CA Reactor. If i get the water rate low around 60 drops a min and co2 at 15 drops a min, it always seems to stop? Then the CO2 just colects in the reactor. This may be the problem. If i can tweak it so i get a DKH of 25 or more, then maybe this will stabalise the tank DKH?
Anyone got any ideas if the low DKH would cause the coral tips to thin or would it be the purigen?
There seems to be no effects on the bases, just the tips only.
Cheers
Che
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