SPS frag - dying / sick?

[Mike Mann]

It was measured on this:

 

http://www.bulkreefs...ractometer.html

 

I plan on bringing it back up to 1.025 this weekend with the next 10% water change.

 

 

I bought one of these too and i love it. works very well and accurate!

[surf&turf]

I'm not certain what effects Nitrite has on corals, but I believe if you have nitrites, you're still going through something of a cycle. I wouldn't add any fish until nitrites are not detectible.

 

+1

 

Also your Cal and Alk are little out wack.

 

With your Cal @ 520 your Alk should be around 11. I ran into the same situation although my Alk was alot lower, 6.4

 

I have slowly raised it to 10 and my Cal was down to 460 today and the SPS are looking alot better. The Cal hadn't budged for the past 3 weeks which means nothing was growing or using up the cal.

 

It has already been said your tank is a little new for SPS and once it matures a little your params will probably come back togther fine.

[STEVE]

How "old" or how long should you wait till your tank is ready for SPS? Is it a time or just when parameters are stable? What are the signs your tankd is ready?

[surf&turf]

Once everything is stable, and you have your parameters holding steady I like to add an easy SPS to test the waters so to speak. Some thing like a pocillopora or a monti cap.

[Ryan S]

What should I be dosing for my daily calcium and alkalinity ( i have brs 2 part ). I was doing 10ml/day of each to start? Maybe lower that to 5ml per day maybe?

[Ryan S]

Noticing my orp is creeping up from 180 to 230 too... Wonder if that's another sign the tank is cycling.

[surf&turf]

I would stop dosing any Calcium and just does the Alk part.

 

Once your Calcium starts to come down you can lower both to where you want them.