u mike

Hi Mike, and happy new year. I had to edit your post because it was making my eyes bleed. hehe I made your images "large" and placed them between text that was formatted double spaced (or like paragraphing). Also, since you were talking about parameters, I assigned this entry to the "Water Chemistry" category.

I noticed you've got a Flame Angel in there. It could be nipping at your Green Star Polyps. It is a pretty hardy coral and if your water results are good, it should be fine. Your pH was a big on the high end, but that isn't the number you'll get 24 hours a day. Was that the peak of the lighting period? Was it after you just dosed more alkalinity (as in 2-part dosing)? How do you test pH specifically? A test kit, or a pH meter?

2.4 meq/l Alkalinity is a bit low. The lowest we want is 2.86 meq/l or 8 dKH. Some other Alkalinity kits I use are Salifert, Elos, and Tropic Marin.

i use a test kit what i am going to do is re test later today then tomorrow will take water up to another fish store and see what he gets

thanks

Just a thought.... How often do you do water changes and do you supplement with any trace elements or other types of chemicals how has your skimmer been doing?

What about feeding your tank? Check experation dates on bottles of chemicals.

Test your pH at different times of day, and write down the time and results. pH is at its highest usually about 7 hours after the lights have been on, but not after 10 hours. It begins to drop after that. That kit is cheap and easy to test frequently. You can test in the early AM, then around noon, then 5pm, the 8 pm, then 11 pm and track the way it rises and falls.