Humm kinda lost on this one...

[Customride0105]

Ok IL try keeping this short but here it goes...

 

Before anyone ask..

450 gallon tank set up

Water prams

 

PH 8.1/8.15

Cal 450

alk 11

Sal 1.26

Phos 0

Nit 10/5

100 gallon water change every 2 weeks.

kalk dose.

io salt.

well water ph 7.04 no rodi I have but don't use comes out of well darn close to what rodi does also have whole house system.

Led lights

 

So here's my question I can't keep a leather cabbage Kenya gsp worth crap they all typically die and don't know why. But here's the catch I have no problem with Hammer corals have over 200 and acros no problem getting great pe and groth. Any one have a idea why I can grow acros but not soft corals. Pic is of acro I got 2 mths ago off a friend who wasn't having success was browned out and not doing well.

 

No matter how much I feed the fish I can't even grow alage lol so I feed alot 4 cubes flakes pellets Yada all gets eaten bio load is about 8 fish

Edited July 21, 2015 by Customride0105

[John Ford]

"No matter how much I feed the fish I can't even grow alage"

 

Somehow your tank is too clean for the softies to grow would be my guess, if you cant grow algae.

[YHSublime]

You running anything like GFO, carbon, bio-pellets, vodka/vin dosing? I'm with John, sounds like your water is too clean.

[Customride0105]

I don't get I've racked my brain..

 

No carbon

no pellets of any type.

no addaditaves

no chemicals

 

Coral food yes.

kalk daily yes. About 2 gallon a day.(pickling lime and my well water)

 

No vodka or vinguar

no baking soda

No uv

 

 

 

I don't add anything but kalk and food. I can't grow chelato I've tryed for me last about a mth and it dies..

 

My tank consist of about 400 lbs of live rock in the tank and another 150 ish in the sump.

My sump houses rock. 1000 watt heater,apex ph probe and temp sensor

 

External protien skimmer.

I am in the middle of adding a cal reactor. I have it all set up just waiting on a needle valve.

[smallreef]

You need more nitrates and phosphates for cheato and most softies... You cannot normally have nice sps and softies in the same tank, they are exclusive of one another... And in prett sure you aren't planning on giving up your sps...