SPS Growth Puzzle

[christyf5]

lol are you shaking your fist as you say this, old man?

I agree tho, 10 years ago there were a lot of nice tanks out there that to my knowledge, weren't dosing magnesium. However, my tank wasn't one of them and since dosing magnesium (amongst other things), now it is

Have you ever thought about having your water completely tested? I don't know if that would help but it might shed some light on things.

http://www.aquariumwatertesting.com/

I thought there was a canadian version of that company but I can't seem to find it.

[reefermadness]

The canadian version of aquarium water testing is out of business.

How are you checking P04 and NO3?

Something is fishy.....I had the same thing on my old 90g BB tank. My N03 was 20-40ppm.....algae didnt grow though and p04 was fine using a high sensitivity merk kit.

I think my problem was I let the detrituis build up in the bottom and around the rocks of my tank causing a NO3 problem. With a BB tank you really need to keep it clean.

[Aquattro]

My NO3 is undetectable, and the bottom is really clean. I clean under the rock work with a powerhead. PO4 measured with Salifert and a meter. Both well into acceptable. Even Mg was 1350, so that's not the problem.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by christyf5

However, my tank wasn't one of them and since dosing magnesium (amongst other things), now it is

Christy, aren't you running a Ca reactor? Mine is apparently keeping my levels in mid 1300's.....

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Christy, aren't you running a Ca reactor? Mine is apparently keeping my levels in mid 1300's.....

no my reactor was giving me issues and I was going through CO2 too quickly so I decided to jump on the automatic doser bandwagon a couple years ago. I haven't had growth like this, well, ever and all the parameters are steady (except for alk which I am having a hell of a time with).