Within the last few months I have started to keep SPS with mixed results. A pocillipora damicornis I added a couple of months ago at first was pale brown but fuzy with polyps for the first month or so, but now is almost completely bleached and hardly any polyps left. It never did turn pink. Three weeks ago I added a purple staghorn acro frag, the polyps have never extended and now a small part of the tip looks like its bleaching (although some of the "nodes" look like they may have grown a bit). All of my softies are fine and my lps are fine, as well as a turbinara cup and a montipora capricornis frag that seems to be doing well. When I added the MH about a month and a half ago it sparked a small hair algae bloom that I beat with water changes and hand removal, and a diatom/cyano outbreak which seems to be weaning. Any ideas on what might be wrong?
Here are my specs:
System - 55g w/ 65 lbs LR and 3-4" DSB, CPR hang on refugium with 4"dsb and some LR and grape and feather caulerpa, bak pak skimmer. I run carbon in the sump for a couple of days a month. System up for about a year and a half.
Lighting - 1 250w MH with 65k Iwasaki, 2 110w URI actinic. MH photoperiod 9 hrs, URI photoperiod 12 hours.
Water - undetectable amonia, nitrate and nitrite, ph 8.4, Ca 450 - 500, dkh 11-12. Water temp range from 76-78, sg 1.024, 20% change twice a month w/ IO heated to temp and circulated with ph overnight before adding. Water filtered through DI tap water filter only and dechlorinated.
Circulation - 2 MJ 1200s 1 MJ 900 on Red Sea Wavemaker.
Additives - b-ionic daily, iodine weekly, 1 tblsp of DTs twice a week, strontium 3 times a week, 1 frozen cube (prime reef or brine shrimp plus) or spirulina flakes alternated daily for fish/shrimp.
Fish and Inverts - mated pair pink skunk clowns, 2 green chromis, six line wrasse, fire shrimp, cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, mythrax crab, white sand stirring starfish, 2 turbo snails, 12 astrea, 6-8 bumble bee, 8-10 blue leg and left handed hermits, many many hitchiker snails, worms, pods, tube worms etc., commensal crab and shrimp in pocillipora., 1 uncaught mantis. (Have never seen anything bother a coral night or day).
Coral - open brain, mushrooms, Xenia, sacrophyton elegans, green star polyps, caulestra, sinularia, turbinara cup, candelum, montipora capricornis, pocillipora damicornis, acropora (purple staghorn) and bubble.
Here are my specs:
System - 55g w/ 65 lbs LR and 3-4" DSB, CPR hang on refugium with 4"dsb and some LR and grape and feather caulerpa, bak pak skimmer. I run carbon in the sump for a couple of days a month. System up for about a year and a half.
Lighting - 1 250w MH with 65k Iwasaki, 2 110w URI actinic. MH photoperiod 9 hrs, URI photoperiod 12 hours.
Water - undetectable amonia, nitrate and nitrite, ph 8.4, Ca 450 - 500, dkh 11-12. Water temp range from 76-78, sg 1.024, 20% change twice a month w/ IO heated to temp and circulated with ph overnight before adding. Water filtered through DI tap water filter only and dechlorinated.
Circulation - 2 MJ 1200s 1 MJ 900 on Red Sea Wavemaker.
Additives - b-ionic daily, iodine weekly, 1 tblsp of DTs twice a week, strontium 3 times a week, 1 frozen cube (prime reef or brine shrimp plus) or spirulina flakes alternated daily for fish/shrimp.
Fish and Inverts - mated pair pink skunk clowns, 2 green chromis, six line wrasse, fire shrimp, cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, mythrax crab, white sand stirring starfish, 2 turbo snails, 12 astrea, 6-8 bumble bee, 8-10 blue leg and left handed hermits, many many hitchiker snails, worms, pods, tube worms etc., commensal crab and shrimp in pocillipora., 1 uncaught mantis. (Have never seen anything bother a coral night or day).
Coral - open brain, mushrooms, Xenia, sacrophyton elegans, green star polyps, caulestra, sinularia, turbinara cup, candelum, montipora capricornis, pocillipora damicornis, acropora (purple staghorn) and bubble.
