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In my 74 gallon bow front my mushrooms are turning white and my brain coral is failing. my ph is 8.4, nitrite 0, ammonia less than 0.25 but not 0, nitrate was 50 until I added carbon and nitrex to filter bags. temp is 74-78 My lighting is all power compacts half are actinic and half are...

I am running power compacts at a total of 470 watts for 12 hours a day. Calcium is 600ppm, alk is 8.2 and I do not have a phosphate test kit. Iuse 50% tap water and 50% ro on the advice of the LFS.

I never thought about rinising the food in R,O water first, so I will do that from now on and cut back on feedings. The fish int he tank right now are a 7 inch 6 year old yellow striped maroon clown, a mandarin goby that is fat from eating the mysis shrimp and the bristle worms in the tank, and...

Thanks for the reply! Tank size is 75 gallon bow front. I feed frozen mysis shrimp small cube daily, along with prime reef flake food. Then once or twice a week i feed frozen bloodworms. I have a undertank sump with 500 bioballs in it and a seaclone 100 protien skimmer. I will test for the...

my torch coral is not doing well. I seem to be able to keep torch corals about a year and then the began to slowly die. I do have a level of 50ppm nitrates that I am trying to get down. This is a recent rise. My tank is 6 years old and I have not had problems until now. I just tested and...