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  1. well, it's been a while and my tank has paid for it :(

    Hey guys, I just thought I would give a quick update since it has been a couple months since my last one. First let me start by saying I have sadly neglected my tank but not because I wanted to but I got a promotion at work then my boss took a vacation meaning I got to do his job (meaning I am typing this on my work break now.) My sps after growing and looking good went into decline browning out, loss of polyps, and in one case rtn (which has stopped at the tips of the coral.)

    I think ...
    Tags: rtn, sps, toxin
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    Questions - Need some input , ‎ Tank Entry , ‎ Random Thoughts
  2. SPS grows like MAD and than RTN's

    This has been going on now for like a month. My tank is a 140 shallow reef tank with T5's. I have two 6100 tunzes for water movement. Run the lights from 4:30 to 11:30. I have a total water volume of 260. I have two 30 gallon breeder tanks plumbed into for sps frag tanks. These are full of water but no corals in them at this moment.
    Water parameters are as follows
    ph 8.4
    Ca 380
    Alk 8
    NO3 15
    NO2 0
    NH3 0
    temps. swing .3 degrees of 77 ...