Every coral I put in my tank dies

[wish]

What kind of fish do you have in your tank? Next time you get a coral make sure you acclimate slowly and test the water salinity to match yours.

 

[spider13258]

I was able to grow corals with my 3 black box lights. what lights are they? what intensity are the Chanels on? how long are they running? I ran my Viraspactras at 80%blue, 20%white. blues came on at 11:30 am, off at 8:00 pm, whites on at 2:00 pm, off at 6:30 pm (I wanted to see my tank for a few hours since I work early morning through after noon. I never did put a par meter to the lights but that seemed to be the magic number for me on my 125.

 

[spider13258]

Lights are considered Full spectrum I looked back. I mean I know there cheap lights but 3 Kessils would probably be 2100$ I know I’ve seen people use the black box LEDs. I’ll try and get another temp probe tomorrow

also for the record 3 kessil 360we would be about $1100. I was looking at those as an upgrade on my black boxes. the kessils are said to be the easiest t use lights and that they are foolproof.

 

[Cpage101]

A couple people have mentioned that ICP test how do I go about doing that? I appreciate that I might take you up on that.

This is the kit super easy & results in like around a week.

ICP Analysis

We do ICP analysis on all types of water. We test for 50+ elements and provide results as low as 10 ppt

www.icp-analysis.com

 

[PSU4ME]

I feel like there could copper or something like it leaching in the tank. +1 on the icp test.

 

[Gsxkid]

I turned my light intensity down and things seem to be doing better than they were. I started dosing BRS two part because my kh dropped to 7 and ph to 7.4 now I notice my kh keeps coming back down to 7 but my ph is staying up around 8.2-8.4. My calcium had dropped to 380 I bumped that back up. Should I be more concerned with kh or ph?

 

[Chris A.]

Kh
Also get your calcium and magnesium in balance or you won’t be able to get anything stable

 

[Gsxkid]

 

[Gsxkid]

 

[Gsxkid]

 

[salthobby]

Try some real live rock to add some established bacteria.

 

[dilligaf29]

Looking at your pics are u currently fighting Dino’s ?

 

[frank180reef]

Your parms are terribly low

 

[Gsxkid]

Definitely have some algae going on in there. Quick update got my Magnesium test kit today. I was at 1050 ppm
8 kh
Calcium dropped to 380

trying to dose things back to spec but from what I read I can’t go more than 100ppm on the MG and no more than 50 on the calcium. Why does everything drop so quickly? Is this normal?

 

[Gsxkid]

Also I’m going to rip through the gallon of MG mix I have. Just to go up 100ppm required 19 ounces

 

[ffsteve]

Your parms are terribly low

what would the proper levels be ?

 

[frank180reef]

what would the proper levels be ?

9.5. 450 1450 .. imo

 

[Gsxkid]

Try some real live rock to add some established bacteria.

I have Quite a bit of live rock. I have visible pods in my refugium.

9.5. 450 1450 .. imo

I was shooting for 9 420 1300. I’m going on the right direction now. Magnesium was up to 1170 calcium 400 kh 8 . I just dosed the tank again. The hammer I have is opening back. Pretty pumped about that

 

[masspw]

Every coral I put in dies off. I’m running 3 black box 165 watt led lights. Any guidance here? What can I change ?
Water parameters are .......

Cal. 400

Nitrate. <5

Phosphate. 0

Nitrite. 0

Ammonia. 0

Ph. 8.2

KH. 8

Salinity. 1.025

Temp. 80.4



Tank is 135 gallons, 55gallon sump, ATO with RODI water. Led on the sump with Chaeto in it. Protein skimmer is a little small for what I have. Phosban/ charcoal reactor

Your temperature is way too high 77-78

 

[Gsxkid]

For anyone that’s been following I ordered a stand alone temp controller for my heaters. My calibration solution showed up today my refractometer is off by .004 so my salinity has actually been 1.021 this entire time. Think I may have found the problem