Help I'm ready to pack it in

[Jim]

+1 on the lights. I have a 300DD and 3 radions are not enough light for sps in my opinion.

 

[isnyc300]

It's not just Sps he is talking about. He has clams that are doing great. His problem is that the Lps dies off after a while.

 

[magnetoe]

Is it possible that it's too much flow in the tank.

 

[timberwolfny]

Alk maybe a little too high sometimes you do not need to have alk on the upper end, high alk will burn your corals especially sps, try to lower it to near nsw.

 

[duke62]

And switch your macro algae. Caulerpa can be toxic when it goes asexual

 

[SI REEF]

I was thinking the macro algae too

 

[imcrazyy0]

First I would say that vacuuming your sand is a little excessive and not a good thing because you're stirring up all the phosphates that are locked into your Snd bed Second I would say 40 gallons of water change a week is excessive if your corals are growing you're not pulling out that many trace elements so there's really no need if you run a good gfo maybe some carbon have a good refugium I would say every 2 to 3 weeks is fine to do that much of a water change and third off LEDs are amazing but they have one setback they do not spread par like a mhl or t5 The way LEDs work is that the light is directed right under the fixture so for euro size tank because it's 3 feet deep and I'm not sure how your Aqua scape is I will tell you that you would need at least nine fixtures three in each Bay over your tank and I know that is a lot of money and LEDs but if you were to owning Parminder which I knew you would understand what I'm telling you anyway I hope this helps you out don't give up don't be a quitter

 

[imcrazyy0]

Sorry for my spelling I meant to say Par meter that's what happens when you try to type too fast sorry again

 

[imcrazyy0]

And one more thing you should use salifert test kits only!

 

[superstar005marie]

Make sure ur not putting any water when you buy fish in ur tank some stores keep their fish in copper medicated tanks

 

[superstar005marie]

You have to checks see if you have those little white stars they eat corals

 

[LongIslandAndy]

Just for giggles I would run a Poly Filter in the tank for a week, see if you pick up any Aluminum or other heavy metals

 

[fredro]

I run 2 Radion PROs at 75% on RMS mounts over my 80g Deep Blue, 18" shallow tank. IMO, 60% is pretty low for a tank that deep. My euphyllia are a few inches under the water line and are thriving and growing. If your lights aren't pros, you're putting out even less. Also, the FIRST thing that jumped out to me was the sandbed vacuuming... I do one thing with my sandbed... I leave it alone at every cost. Even moving a base rock can stir up some nasty detrimental crap! This is just my opinion, but I had a Radion G2 non pro inside the hood of my nanocube 28 hood, 1-2 inches off the surface and I ran it at 40% and everything was happy. Just my experiences

 

[jvu61]

First I would say that vacuuming your sand is a little excessive and not a good thing because you're stirring up all the phosphates that are locked into your Snd bed Second I would say 40 gallons of water change a week is excessive if your corals are growing you're not pulling out that many trace elements so there's really no need if you run a good gfo maybe some carbon have a good refugium I would say every 2 to 3 weeks is fine to do that much of a water change and third off LEDs are amazing but they have one setback they do not spread par like a mhl or t5 The way LEDs work is that the light is directed right under the fixture so for euro size tank because it's 3 feet deep and I'm not sure how your Aqua scape is I will tell you that you would need at least nine fixtures three in each Bay over your tank and I know that is a lot of money and LEDs but if you were to owning Parminder which I knew you would understand what I'm telling you anyway I hope this helps you out don't give up don't be a quitter

+1
on my 300 I have the vortex 360 lights it is a 5 foot long light on the 6 foot tank I run them about 70% if I recall the tank is also covered with glass and the light sits about 3 inches above the glass. Has been working well for me for 2 years now. Also + 1 on getting water mixed in when adding fish. As I mentioned before if water quality is within reason it has to be lights. I have had some acros not do well in my tank and moved them 4 inches higher and have them recover and grow like crazy. sometimes a small change in location will do it. As to water flow I have a mp60 on each side and 2 mp 40's on each side of the back wall. I keep the 60's at about 3/4 power or it blows sand around and such