I only use salifert. If its that big of a difference i think its just human error and not the test itself.
Personally with my 10 month old 25 lagoon things are just starting to survive. With a smaller tank its best to wait it out before adding anything. I found that the only thing that really do well is softies and anemone, the rest just slowly die out. But then again i never have any luck with LPS.



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I was thinking user error as well, but I did each test twice on the weekend and twice the weekend before. Got the same results. All I can think of is needing fresh reagent for the Hanna checker.

I won't be adding things very soon. Need to get what I have healthy first. It's nice to know I'm not the only one having troubles with a smaller tank.

Have pictures of your tank?

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Today was water change and testing day. Tank is looking pretty ugly. Lots of cyano on the sand and rocks.

I picked up a mini gravel vac, worked great to clean up the sand a bit.

Don't have much of a positive update on the corals, unfortunately. So far I have lost my 3 sps corals, my largest acan and a green toadstool.

My remaining 2 acans are doing alright. One likes to be all closed up one day and happy the next. The other always seems fine. Still struggling with my frogspawn and the Kenya tree seems to be loving things... At least something grows for me.

Fish are happy and doing well.

Since I lost all my sps I have decided to make this tank a LPS focused tank. I figured they are a little easier and I could use some coral wins to build off of for when I can set my 75 gallon up again.

I changed the light settings on the radion to the coral labs LPS/soft setting at 30% brightness.

If anyone has any advice on a successful LPS tank I am open to hearing it!

Tank Params are
Salinity: 1.026
Temp: 78
pH: 7.8
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 5
Phosphate: 0.021
Alkalinity: 9.6
Calcium: 435
Magnesium: 1380https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...55da2fd4cb.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...bbbf140492.jpg

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I dropped the brightness on the radion down to 20% this morning. Starting to see the frogspawn open up a bit more. Hopefully it continues!

That some nice looking scape

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Thanks. Didn't quite turn out how I originally envisioned, but I like it so far.

With the recent cyano covering the sand I have moved my photo period from 12 hours to 10.

Two heads of the frogspawn we're opening up a little bit today. Hopefully the rest will follow. Looks like lowering the brightness might help after all.

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If there is an Acclimation option in your light setting turn it on. It usually last for 30days. And it start at 50% on your original setting.

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I used that when I first put the corals in. Since moving it down to 20% brightness I figured I wouldn't need to use it.

My original acclimation was set to 4 weeks.

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Happy Halloween everyone!

Spent last night carving pumpkins. It's been awhile since I had done that. Forgot how long it takes to scoop all the guys out of a decent sized pumpkin!

Yesterday while searching for my algae scraper I found a bottle of vibrant. Decided to dose a bit of it. Unfortunately this was during lunch and I immediately got distracted by work and left the open bottle by the tank. And guess what one of the cats does? He stretches up to see what is going on and it's enough to knock the bottle over. So overdosed vibrant a bit yesterday...

The tank was cloudy, but no harm done. I did do a 5 gal water change.

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I thought my cat would at least show some interest in my tank, unlike the husband & kid, but no. He has completely ignored it. Sigh...
Sometimes I hold the dog up to the glass but his eyesight is almost completely gone now.