A quick collection of updates
- Got over the flukes and aiptasia :fingers-crossed: – no more losses thankfully – and thankfully not that many. Everyone happy and healthy
- Had a bad bacterial bloom (first one) which seemed to knock around ph and alk quite a bit – at the same time I lost (and continue to lose) some of my test acros. Just happened all of a sudden.
- Added some carbon (in media bags to my sump) and as I’m not running a fuge at the moment I’ve set up a frag tank of sorts in my fuge area and have set it to run lights overnight – opposite to my DT. This appears to helping stabilize ph/alk. I’ve got a co2 reactor/scrubber on the way as well I will hook up to my skimmer. I should see a small bump in ph from this.
- After I got ph and alk back to normal I decided to check my light levels – found a LFS I could borrow a PAR meter from and discovered that my lights were horribly low PAR on my rocks – especially low for the Acros – which probably explains at least some of the acro deaths. This is quite frustrating to be honest – I really wish I found a part meter earlier or the LFS I got to helped set things up properly. Explains why my LPS were doing well at high positions in the tank though.
- So….I’ve adjusted lighting – all I could do was lower the lights over my DT Acros but that seems to result in much better PAR for the acros I have left in the DT
- All the parts I need for the battery backup for my return pump have arrived – so I’ll be setting that up properly this week.