Frogspawn keep melting... Help

[Junmity]

Salinity is 1.023

I just bought a calcium reactor to try to bring it up

but i've been dosing twice a week with reefbuilder.

The strange thing is, i have two frogspawn that are pretty healthy since the beginning.

when i add zoa's they do usually close up for a couple days to a week before the fully open and start getting good colour.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Junmity

when i add zoa's they do usually close up for a couple days to a week before the fully open and start getting good colour.

thats not good either zoas should almost open immediately ,thats also a sign something is off.

[coolhandgoose]

My thought would be the ph, have you checked the ph of the water your frag was in prior to putting it in the tank. If it was at say 8.2 to 8.4 then goes into your tank with a ph of 7.9, that is a huge swing. The corals that are in there already probably got used to the declining ph over time.

Not sure why your ph would be so low. Something is causing your water to be too acidic, hopefully someone can chime in on that.

[Proteus]

Never listed what your po4 is at

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by Titus99

Never listed what your po4 is at

unimportant. Algae food mostly.

[Proteus]

I would disagree. I've lost lps of that sort from to high of phospate

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by Titus99

I would disagree. I've lost lps of that sort from to high of phospate

I highly doubt it was the PO4 that caused your issues. Just saying.

Anyhow, not going to argue over it, in two hours there is no way PO4 is the culprit.

[Junmity]

Good point on the ph...

Was much higher when the first ones went in(8.2)

Now it's declined. I've been dosing now and just bought a calc reactor.

I'll hold off till I get my ph up the. Try again. I'll update once I do!

Thanks so much for the help!