Somethings deffinetely wrong.. help

[Reeftanker3295]

Originally Posted by Neuticle

I wonder why your dkH is so high if you don't dose? Weird, is it possible you did the test wrong?

Tested twice, changed to end color at 14 both times, its a pretty clear test, it changes colors to end color on the right drop

[fihsboy]

Your dkh wouldnt rise because of windex, and it wouldnt cause HA. But excessive nutrients would. Test your DKH again and see if it was a misreading even though you already did twice.haha. and like Jadinop said about the bulbs, those pcs are probably done. Windex has other things in it besides just ammonia, which I have seen people go to the lfs with there whole 110 or 210 wiped out by the stuff. or by an airfreshner there (significant other) put in the wall next to the tank. Just gotta watch it. May not be the issue now. I would still do a pretty good water change. they fix a lot of problems, and dont cost much.

[Jadinop]

Originally Posted by Reeftanker3295

My lights get changed about every 3 months so im fine on that, but a question on my lights, about 2 weeks ago i switched one of my regular bulbs to an actinic bulb, could the lack of light from the white bulbs be causing this?

The 29 Biocube only uses 2 PC bulbs. Are both of them actinics now?

[Reeftanker3295]

1 actinic and 1 50/50 bulb. Came home today from upstate to find the xenia with brown slime on them and they were pretty much dead, the 2 day blackout didnt help with the hair algae at all, again bulbs are only 1 and about 3 months old, so dont think its the bulb, i dont know how i could have a nutrient problem, feed every 3 days a tiny bit a little at a time and it is ALL eaten, blow off my rocks during water changes and suck everything up, siphon the sand bed

[fihsboy]

1 actnic and one 50/50 would give you roughly 75% actinic lighting. Thats a little much. Your not getting par levels like you were with the one actnic and one 10k. Or two 50/50 bulbs. I ran 300 watts of actinic over a 29 gallon.......everything got brown and started to whither away. Try to get a 10k bulb, that will help you out a lot.

[Reeftanker3295]

I think that will help my zoas but what about my xenia? i know its not the lighting because hours after i put them in my tank they start to wither away and melt

[fihsboy]

DKH.......im still puzzled as to why its soo high though. Do you use anything at all as a supplement?

[Reeftanker3295]

I did use a calcium buffer two weeks back but that was because the corals were looking bad and calcium was a little low.

[Reeftanker3295]

bump

[fuzzybob4]

witch tank is this your 10g?
if so try more light or moving the corals to the 29g. if you don't have the light/money for them right now.

[jenglish]

Originally Posted by Reeftanker3295

I did use a calcium buffer two weeks back but that was because the corals were looking bad and calcium was a little low.

Define what you mean by calcium buffer... like 2 part?

Try managing the mineral load (mag/Ca/Kh) with water changes for a few weeks. Use something with higher mineral content or if you are going to adjust minerals, do it before you add the water to the tank.

As mentioned above you likely have very little PAR coming out of an actinic and a 50/50. Consider getting a daylight/10,000k bulb. You can try running it with the actinic, which is about the standard set up or with the 50/50 wich would offer more PAR but may look too yellow or washed out.

[Reeftanker3295]

I had my 10,000k lieng around because it was only 2 months old when we changed it out for the actinic so put that back in, helped a TINY bit, going to get 15 gallons of water tomorrow and do about a 14 gallon water change. And yes i mean 2 part

[quader94]

time to invest in an rodi it will pay for itself pretty quickly

[Reeftanker3295]

Well my LFS sells RO/DI and i buy that so im using RO/DI for topoff. I really dont know whats up with the xenia

[quader94]

same with mine but i got sick of bringing water back and fourth