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I am not sure were to post this so here sounded good. I have been having some issues in my tank of late. Seems something is wrong and I have been loosing a far share of my LPS corals lately. I have a mixed reef of a few Leathers a couple softies but most of it is (was) LPS ans SPS. My SPS could not look better right now. polyp Ext. is great and are growing like weeds. But I have lost 4 Acans almost lost my Enchin. a chalice and a bubble. The bubble being the last one. And now I have a my Royal Grama that I have had for 4 years has a very large bloated belly. I have also Lost a Purple Tang 2 Dwarf Lion Fish and a Psych. Manderian that was 3 years old. All this within the last Year.

This is my last test run

As of 12-21

Sal. 1.26
PH. 8.0
Alk 3.00
KH 8.4
Cal 425
Mag 1380
Amon 0
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Phos .5

top off water is at 30ppm right now. (6 stage DI water)
Di is only 3 months old and Membrane is less then a year old. New sediment filter and one new carbon filter

This is all the test I have and the fish store double checked with theres.

I do not dose anything and just added a calcium reactor to the tank. I will retest everything today or tomorrow. I use Red Sea Pro salt

I am out of ideas and need some help here I will try anything. Up until this year my tank has been rock solid stabil. now I am scared to put anything in it.
 
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Wingsfan1477 said:
sorry forget the .5 corrected that. I run a phos reactor and De Nitrate
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A Phosphate level above 0.3ppm is considered to be problematic. What test kit are you using?

Also, your Salinity... I assume you meant 1.026, not 1.26... How are you testing your salinity?

A TDS reading of 30 ppm after your RO/DI is a bit high too... What is the TDS reading for your "tap" water?
 
Discussion starter · #8 ·
I check sal. with a Ref. meter I am using all saifriet test kits and they were double checked with the fish store. My tap water is around 150ppm. It is way bad. I am ordering another Di kit so I will be running a double DI. I double checked the ref. meter and it reads 0 on the di water.
 
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I find that feeding my LPS really gives them the extra Ooomph to help them grow. I've been keeping Duncans, Hammers, Torch, Open Brains, to name a few.

If you're worried about overfeeding, just "spot feed" at night, when the fish are sleeping, so they don't steal the food.
 
Discussion starter · #12 ·
I will give that a shot. retested everything last night as well.

ph. 8.2
Nat. 0-.5
Nit. 0
Am 0
Pos 0
Kh 12.2
Alk 4.34
Cal 425
Mag 1490


My Alk is creaping up so I shut off the calcium reactor for a couple of days. Still not sure on the adjustments of that thing.
 
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