Most of my sps seem to do great except for my milipora. I've tried different places for flow and lighting in the tank with no real improvement. The mili's grow but just don't have the polyp exstension I'm seeing in other tanks with healthy sps (even at night).
I have a couple areas of concern that I want to get some feedback on:
1) I use two part, no calcium reactor and no lime, so my Ph runs between 8.1 and 7.9. PH is very stable and within reef parameters but low compared to those that use a calc reactor and or lime. If you have fuzzy sps, what does your PH run and what do you dose with?
2) I don't over skim and I don't put in alot of additives - just coralvite, lugals & stronium, and all of these I probably add 1/4 - 1/2 recomended amounts. I do a 15% water change every three weeks. I also have what I would consider a medium bio load.
3) I don't feed micro food other then DT's and marinesnow twice a week. I'm thinking of starting some Pappone.
Like I said, other sps seem to be doing great and include moti caps, a couple monti digi's, and a buch of acros', like, staghorns, Pulchra, yongei, valida, Microphthalma, Tortuosa, tenuis, prostrata, birdsnest, Pocillopora and a few others.
I do have a very diverse mixed reef with softies (zoa's, mushrooms, ric's and zenia) I run carbon 24/7 and change it about every 6 weeks to help fend off chemical warefare and other polutants. I also run ozone but keep ORP around 370, mostly to knock down parasites like Ich.
feedback from those with fuzzy mili's (and others) is very much appreciated.
I'm thinking the lower ph may be a factor, but.....
thanks
Pete
I have a couple areas of concern that I want to get some feedback on:
1) I use two part, no calcium reactor and no lime, so my Ph runs between 8.1 and 7.9. PH is very stable and within reef parameters but low compared to those that use a calc reactor and or lime. If you have fuzzy sps, what does your PH run and what do you dose with?
2) I don't over skim and I don't put in alot of additives - just coralvite, lugals & stronium, and all of these I probably add 1/4 - 1/2 recomended amounts. I do a 15% water change every three weeks. I also have what I would consider a medium bio load.
3) I don't feed micro food other then DT's and marinesnow twice a week. I'm thinking of starting some Pappone.
Like I said, other sps seem to be doing great and include moti caps, a couple monti digi's, and a buch of acros', like, staghorns, Pulchra, yongei, valida, Microphthalma, Tortuosa, tenuis, prostrata, birdsnest, Pocillopora and a few others.
I do have a very diverse mixed reef with softies (zoa's, mushrooms, ric's and zenia) I run carbon 24/7 and change it about every 6 weeks to help fend off chemical warefare and other polutants. I also run ozone but keep ORP around 370, mostly to knock down parasites like Ich.
feedback from those with fuzzy mili's (and others) is very much appreciated.
I'm thinking the lower ph may be a factor, but.....
thanks
Pete