I have a relatively new tank of 3 months. I started with seeded seachem matrix and dry rock, it’s bare bottom too. The tank cycled fast and I put some “test” corals in at around week 3. Things were good, growth was almost nonexistent, but colors were good.
Slowly some of the acros started showing tissue recession from the tips. I test often and alk has been steady, consumption very slow. I performed my first 20% water change and and the acros began to recover, growing over algae covered tips! I decided to send in an icp test to see why the water change seemed to help. I was surprised at how low some of the trace elements were, given that I just performed a water change several days before.
I have high aluminum, not sure of the source. But some of the trace elements are non existent.
Maybe I had some bad buckets of salt? I’m using Brightwell Marine. Here’s a link to my test results.
Any thoughts?
Slowly some of the acros started showing tissue recession from the tips. I test often and alk has been steady, consumption very slow. I performed my first 20% water change and and the acros began to recover, growing over algae covered tips! I decided to send in an icp test to see why the water change seemed to help. I was surprised at how low some of the trace elements were, given that I just performed a water change several days before.
I have high aluminum, not sure of the source. But some of the trace elements are non existent.
Maybe I had some bad buckets of salt? I’m using Brightwell Marine. Here’s a link to my test results.
Any thoughts?