Tank is a 50 gallon cube and has been running since April. I've been very slow to add things to the tank as I feel that nothing good happens fast in a reef tank. In that time, I've only added a couple of small frags and an anemone. 1 small frag of zoas, 1 single polyp blastomussa, and a sunset monti frag. Blasto looks great, zoas look great, and the sunset monti was starting to color up until the hurricane. The power loss and all that mess caused it to start slowly bleaching and it hasn't come back. Pretty sure it's a goner.
In this time, I've had no coraline algae growth either. None on the glass, none on the power heads, nothing. There's very few purple spots on my rocks and the spots aren't growing at all that I can see.
I just checked the water a few minutes ago and everything looks good.
SG 1.026
Ph 8.2
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Ca 480
Alk 7.3dKH
Mg 1380
Ca, Alk, and Mg are Salifert test kits. Others are API. SG checked with a refractometer and I verify calibration prior to each use.
Cheato is growing like crazy in the sump, it's jam packed in there now.
For lighting on the tank, I'm using the AI Hydra 26 with the program cycle many people have claimed to have the best success with. I had it pretty high over the tank, little over 2 feet above the water. Over the weekend I dropped it down to 12" from the water. I know that could be a factor, but I'd still expect it to be getting enough light to grow coraline. The anemone has been happy in the lower part of the tank and not moving with the light that high. The sunset monti was also in the lower 1/3rd of the tank and starting to color up as well.
Any ideas? I'm kinda at a loss here. Hoping to see some improvement with lowering the light.
In this time, I've had no coraline algae growth either. None on the glass, none on the power heads, nothing. There's very few purple spots on my rocks and the spots aren't growing at all that I can see.
I just checked the water a few minutes ago and everything looks good.
SG 1.026
Ph 8.2
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Ca 480
Alk 7.3dKH
Mg 1380
Ca, Alk, and Mg are Salifert test kits. Others are API. SG checked with a refractometer and I verify calibration prior to each use.
Cheato is growing like crazy in the sump, it's jam packed in there now.
For lighting on the tank, I'm using the AI Hydra 26 with the program cycle many people have claimed to have the best success with. I had it pretty high over the tank, little over 2 feet above the water. Over the weekend I dropped it down to 12" from the water. I know that could be a factor, but I'd still expect it to be getting enough light to grow coraline. The anemone has been happy in the lower part of the tank and not moving with the light that high. The sunset monti was also in the lower 1/3rd of the tank and starting to color up as well.
Any ideas? I'm kinda at a loss here. Hoping to see some improvement with lowering the light.