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  1. Yeah I am definitely bumping up the lights. I appreciate you sharing this. Just out of curiosity, why is the par higher in the frag tank? The reef looks great by the way!
  2. I get good flow with the corals. The tank has been up for nearly 2 years. I have good coraline algae on the rocks. I definitely siphon the sand as you state it gets brown. I will keep at it and see what can be done. Thanks
  3. Could I have a bacterial issue in the tank?
  4. I followed the BRS setup and then adjusted to get to the par level I had shown in the photos, adjusting equally across all of the spectrums. I will look to play with it a bit.
  5. I double checked and was good at 1.025 with the refractometer and digital Ali it’s tester after having checked calibration. I think I was a little low before my last water change
  6. I have a flame angel and a coral beauty
  7. I got the results of my water test, there does not seem to be a whole lot going on. I will try the recommendations, but would these be the reasons for my issues? Or should I start looking at something else as the culprit? Aquarium analysis results.pdf RODI Analysis result.pdf RODI recommendation.pdf
  8. I can usually keep hammers, but trouble with acans, candy canes, frog spawn, and playing corals. I am hoping the icp test shows me something. Appreciate the response!
  9. I have a couple of dwarf angels that have picked at the acans a little, but I have seen some STN on all of the corals, some starting right after I put them in. Thanks for responding.
  10. All, I can't keep any lps in my tank to save my life. I am not sure what the issue is as my softies do just fine. I currently have a 180 gallon aquarium with an icecap 36XL sump and the tank has been set up well over a year with plenty of coraline algae growth in the tank. I fight green hair algae, but it has been minimal for a little while now. I have 3 mp 40s, two on one end of the tank, one on the other (run in lps mode maxing out around 48%). I also struggle to grow any algae in my refugium (chaeto, caulerpa, etc.). I have switched between the innovative marine 9 watt grow light and a simple 29 watt fluorescent light without much luck. As needed, I run carbon and gfo and test my water weekly. I have 4 ai hydra 32 lights over the tank and run them from 7am to 5 pm. I run filter socks in the aquarium and a reef octopus protein skimmer, which pulls out a lot of junk. These are the numbers I get based on the apogee par meter. My last test showed phosphates at around .02, but it can get as high as .1. My nitrates were right around 15 but have been as high as 19. I keep my alk between 8.4 and 9 and calcium is 420 and magnesium is 1330. The salinity is 1.025 and tank temp is kept at 78 degrees. I also sent in an icp test a couple of days ago to see if there are issues there, but a previous icp test showed nothing out of the ordinary. I use BRS for alk, calcium and magnesium. I do a water change every two weeks with ro/di water. I have around 15 or so fish and a decent clean up crew. I stupidly had an air freshener in the room, one of the glade plug ins that I recently removed, not sure if that was creating this issue or how much effect it may have had. I welcome all questions and suggestions on what I might be doing wrong, so I can reverse this lps trend and how I can also fix my refugium issue. Thanks in advance!
  11. I appreciate the recommendations you have provided and will definitely look into that for the return and the manifold. The shelf placement may be a little tough based on the height of the sump and the heights of the shelf. But I definitely really like the set up you recommend. I actually do have a filtration pad in the black portion where the water feeds into the refugium, so the water from the DT will always be going through filtration.
  12. So it is better to tee off the refugium from the return pump? I originally had it teed off from the drain. So I thought I would split the drain then tee off the right side drain to go into both the sump and the refugium and regulate the flow to the refugium with the gate valve. The have the left drain just go straight into the sump. I would move the right side drain to go over the baffle as others suggested vice through the sump section. Does this work also you think? Or even have the right drain go straight to the refugium and the left side to the sump?
  13. Thanks again for the feedback. The return and drain are both 1”. I could reduce the return to 3/4”. I am not planning to restrict the drain with the bulkheads. They are on there to make it easier to take apart and clean the pipes when needed given the long horizontal runs. You definitely have the correct pump in your link, so I will definitely look into getting a larger pump or a second pump to make sure I have enough flow in the tank. The second manifold was a recommendation to have just in case I want to add additional equipment (no plans to do so right now, unless I add a second pump). i am not too concerned with noise given the tank is in the basement, but I will look into splitting the pipes and reducing the return to 3/4”. Do you think the next model up will suffice, the 1900 gallon per hour? Or should I go with the 3170 gallon per hour? I can then put the current one on my mixing station.
  14. I actually added in a second manifold on the return pipe based on a separate recommendation. I just did not update the photo. But I will definitely consider moving the refugium as well based on your suggestion. How would you recommend I get the water to the refugium if I elevated it? Add a pump? Thanks
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