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I do have a copper test kit, but wouldn't carbon take out the copper?

If so with my tank at 19 inches deep and 35% I would have to move a lot of corals to the top of my tank...

I saw this http://www.aquaticlog.com/radion is this accurate?

I do acclimate my frag's by putting them on at the bottom of my tank and underneath the shade of a rock for about 2 weeks. But that is a good point I never really thought about at fish stores.

I'm guessing he has been very busy as he has been MIA in responding to me.

Ok, I'll try 35% for 1 month then 30% then next month and see how they do. I will still test my alk/mag/cal daly and see if there swings during the week.

I can try and test everyday for a week at the time every day, and see where that puts me. But what causes alk swings to kill coral?

I have heard that, how long did it take your tank to get better?

The readings are more of on average. They don't swing week by week. I can try increasing the light by 5%

Phosphorus is just a more sensitive test of phosphate. I use a Hanna checker and the units are in ppb. You can use the formula to convert it by, (phosphorus number x 3.066)/ (1000) = phosphate in ppm. The sps bleach and die, the LPS seem to either shrink until it disappears, or like the picture I have of the fungia; it slowly dies by bleaching on the outside then goes to the middle. I also can be fairly positive that I have no pests in the tank. I started with dry rock and sand. I know you can not be 100% sure. And it very well might be a pest and I don't know I have.

I don't feed my coral. I know lots of successful reef tanks with no feeding. Dipg is one of those.

They stop extending their polyps, turn white then they die

Frog spawn, chalices, sps, acans,

I also have 3 RBTA that are happy (1 became 3 over the course of a year). Here my schedule.

The cycle was made by Mr. Saltwater tank. He logged in my account and made it.

So this problem has been plaguing me for the past 8-10 months now. I can not keep corals alive for more than a month in my tank, and the ones that have been in the tank for over a year have not grown at all. I have tried a few things but now I am at a lost. I am so fed up with it that I'm thinking about taking the whole thing down and starting over to see if it will fix the problem. So here is the details of the tank: My tank is a 38 gallon IM with GFO, carbon, ATO, and a skimmer running. I currently have 2 blue chromes, 3 clown fish, 1 bicolor blenny. The fish are doing great, beside the few that have jumped out of the tank, but that problem as been fixed and added more fish to replace the fish that died. I do have a clean up crew of snails, hermits, and a cleaner shrimp. I feed the fish once a day with pellets, flakes, and once a week of PE pysis. I do have coralline algae every where. I have 2 MP10wes on reef crest, lagoon, and at night 3 hours of nutrient export mode. I have a radion pro G3 at 40% on for 14 hours a day with a VERY slow ramp up. I change the water every week, I have cut back to one a month to see if the tank is too clean. After the water change there is no change in coral action. My levels have been great: Mag - 1300 Cal - 400 to 450 Alk - 8.0 Phosphorus - 15 - 30 ppb Amm. - 0 Nitrites - 0 Nitrate - 0.2 ppm I did have a problem with hydroids, on one rock, I took it out, cleaned it, bleached it, unbleached it, and dried it. They have not shown up in the tank since then, and that was about 6 months ago. Other than the coral death my tank is doing great. I talked with Richard at ERC and he thought that the tank was too clean, so for the past 2 months the GFO has not been running. No jump in Phosphorus, no algae and no change in coral. I have noticed that at night I have polyp extension than during the day when I have none. Like I said, I have not idea what's going on, I have bought a lot of coral and they all die. The only ones that are in the tank that will not die or grow are zoa's and one golden torch coral. Any one have an suggestions?

Update on the tank, I put a MP10 on the tank. And put some empty shells from my main tank that had some coral algae on it. After a few days it's starting to grow on the rocks . I also seeing some brown algae growth as well so the tank is maturing great. No fish yet but soon. I do want to add some pods fist to try and get them going. Also the parameters are great as well. Will post pictures later

I saw Randall's goby, I'll have to check the fish out again. I do agree it's a pretty fish. Thank you for the complement on the aquascape:)

Rock has been bleached, debleached, and dried. I bet you can't tell which rock had the hydroids

Also was unable to take any good pictures, the colonial hydroids looked like they were during so none of the pictures looked good. Sorry Pants.

So update on the colonial hydroids issue. I took the rock out and fragged as much as I could, but seeing as that was my first time fragging ever....I think I killed all my Zoa's >.< but I placed the infected rock in some water mixed with a little bleach. Letting it kill everything for the next 24 hours. Going to give it good scrub then place it some Dechlorinating water a few times, the. Let it dry, then place it back in the tank. If the colonial hydroids come back....then I guess I throw the rock out.

I am looking to add a MP10 or some other type of pump as well as a XR15 Radion light. I have a reeflink for my other tank and connection between the light and pump is something I would love for this tank, but might be a little overkill.

Got a Innovative Marine Nuvo 10 for Christmas from the wife. Finally was able to acquire all the necessary equipment for it, so I set it up today. The equipment that I have on it is: -Mini reactor from innovative marine (had one just collecting dust in the basement so I figured I would use it for GFO) -Regular LED light (non coral light) -Ghost Skimmer (desktop) -Smart ATO I cycle all my tanks with Doctor Tim's One and Only. Works great, never use anything else. I have able 12lbs of dry rock and a 2 inch sand bed of Eden Reef Flakes (thanks Dip again for the sand). I have been looking around and researching fish and have 4 fish I'm looking into: -Tail Spot Blenny -Tanaka's Pygmy Wrasse -Court Jester Goby -Pinkbar Goby (maybe a pistol shrimp as well?) Unsure which ones I will pick but this is a good start. I'm leaning towards starting off with the Jester Goby.

I could try and take pictures. I have a microscope. I'm do want to try and remove them before taking out the rock completely. Coral Hind I do agree, I would never place an animal in my care and not look at the long term care. I do need to order more clean up crew since my crabs have killed some snails. I do have some hair algae issues on that rock and the hare could help take it out. That being said I will take to heart what you have said and try manually removing them and not-rely on an animal that might not touch them in the long run.