Hello everyone!!!
I hope you guys can assist me, its kinda urgent.
I have a 1,5 meter by 850 by 650 high marine with a similar size sump.
currently running a reef octopus skimmer, a phosphate reactor, a nitrate reactor, 4 T5s , 2 250 watts metal halides. I use red sea salt
The tank is 3 years running and ammonia, nitrite are zero nitrate is 30, PH is between 8,1 to 8.3.
I feed once a day either flakes or frozen Mysis , oyster or krill.
the T5s are on for 8hrs a day and the metal halides for about 1.5hrs.
I do a water change every 2 weeks and clean the skimmer once a week.
current in mates of the tank include:
1 emperor snapper
4 blue demsels
1 saddle back clown
1 tomato clown
1 sand goby
1 cleaner shrimp
4 snails
10 mushrooms
2 fairy wrasse
1 coris wrasse
1 white stripped wrasse
fish I lost in past 3 months
1 emperor Angel
1 coral beauty
2 Pakistani butterfly
2 threadfin butterfly
1 niger trigger
3 yellow tail blue demsel
3 common clowns
1 flame angel
2 yellow tangs
1 pyjama tang
1 purple tang
as you can see there's something seriously wrong with my tank and cannot find what it is. I am seriously sad because of the loss of so many fish and endless bills.
if there is anyone who could possibly help me or if you could come and have a look at my tank to find out whats wrong I would appreciate it. I would have hoped that by now I would have a beautiful marine reef with fish and lps, sps and sof corals but 3 years and its bare.
also since December I have had a serious issue with green hair algae but then I have removed all the live rock and now my tank is algae free. please help! I would really like my tank to be like a small ocean.
I hope you guys can assist me, its kinda urgent.
I have a 1,5 meter by 850 by 650 high marine with a similar size sump.
currently running a reef octopus skimmer, a phosphate reactor, a nitrate reactor, 4 T5s , 2 250 watts metal halides. I use red sea salt
The tank is 3 years running and ammonia, nitrite are zero nitrate is 30, PH is between 8,1 to 8.3.
I feed once a day either flakes or frozen Mysis , oyster or krill.
the T5s are on for 8hrs a day and the metal halides for about 1.5hrs.
I do a water change every 2 weeks and clean the skimmer once a week.
current in mates of the tank include:
1 emperor snapper
4 blue demsels
1 saddle back clown
1 tomato clown
1 sand goby
1 cleaner shrimp
4 snails
10 mushrooms
2 fairy wrasse
1 coris wrasse
1 white stripped wrasse
fish I lost in past 3 months
1 emperor Angel
1 coral beauty
2 Pakistani butterfly
2 threadfin butterfly
1 niger trigger
3 yellow tail blue demsel
3 common clowns
1 flame angel
2 yellow tangs
1 pyjama tang
1 purple tang
as you can see there's something seriously wrong with my tank and cannot find what it is. I am seriously sad because of the loss of so many fish and endless bills.
if there is anyone who could possibly help me or if you could come and have a look at my tank to find out whats wrong I would appreciate it. I would have hoped that by now I would have a beautiful marine reef with fish and lps, sps and sof corals but 3 years and its bare.
also since December I have had a serious issue with green hair algae but then I have removed all the live rock and now my tank is algae free. please help! I would really like my tank to be like a small ocean.
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