Upgrade time !

[Madreefer]

Looks good. I like your aquasacape. Why do you have one of your light fixtures higher?

[Craigdillman]

....Well funny story kinda... when I was installing them I didn't use long enough screws to go threw the board and hit a stud and in the middle of the night 1 day later the whole light fixtures fell into the water... managed to not start a fire or fry the drivers and also to save most of the leds but some on the left 2 most fixtures burnt out And i haven't got around to doing another order to replace them so I upped the output on the drivers to compensate but the left most one didn't lose any and it was noticeably more bright and with that rock higher corals seemed to like it like that so I just went with it

[gregzz4]

Love your tank size Craig

[Craigdillman]

Yea it's good and manageable 72x20x20

[Craigdillman]

Update

Well things looking remarkably well nitrates are below 10 now and probably below 5, both of the colonies that were really struggling are now coming back with a vengeance and seeing new growth tips on stuff that was really slowing down in growth ill post some before and after next week

Guess i learned my lesson to not get complacent and check all parameters not just big 3 and P04 cause hiding under the hood was the real problem,

Still increasing vinegar as not seeing any side effects and then getting a doser going and will just put in on a channel

[gregzz4]

So what was the issue again ?

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Craigdillman

Update

Well things looking remarkably well nitrates are below 10 now and probably below 5, both of the colonies that were really struggling are now coming back with a vengeance and seeing new growth tips on stuff that was really slowing down in growth ill post some before and after next week

Guess i learned my lesson to not get complacent and check all parameters not just big 3 and P04 cause hiding under the hood was the real problem,

Still increasing vinegar as not seeing any side effects and then getting a doser going and will just put in on a channel

At this point now I would stop increasing and let the bacteria mass do their thing your going to have to start dropping the dose anyways as the amount needed to lower isn't the amount needed to maintain so if things are looking amazing well then proceed with caution as going to low also has its downside glad to hear things are on the mend

[Craigdillman]

Well nitrates are below 5 now some of the before and after is crazy took a few pics with the phone quick





Color on this is nuts now


This was almost dead


now fully encrusted and starting to spiral out


Almost a full 1" growth on the tips from both these



Up to just over 100ml per day still needing to run GFO but p04 is still pretty low pretty happy with the results for around a month between pictures