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Hi there,
I'm relatively new to aquarium keeping, I bought a JBJ 45 gallon tank 8 months ago and have never been able to keep corals alive more than 4 months. I started with 3 Euphillias, thought everything was cool for 3 months, then had 2 peter away into nothingness. I realized I had a problem and assumed it was my water temps hitting 81.5 at times. I bought a fan and thought the issue was resolved. Then I bought a mushroom, a torch, and a small plate of assorted corals. I just this week had my last remaining original Euphillia die and realized its probably not the temperature messing this all up. Please help me fix this so nothing else dies!
JBJ RL-45
Current USA Orbit LED Light https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GFTNG3S
1 Jebao OW-25 set to medium high
Temperature controller, heater fan
Protein skimmer, filter socks, filter floss, IM media reactor with Dr Tim's NP-Active Pearls, everything cleaned regularly
RODI water and Instant Ocean salt
8 small clownfish and small assortment of snails and crabs. 5 gallon water changes approx 3 times a month.
Measured water parameters today and these are typical number I see:
Temp 78.2
Salinity 1.024??
dKH 8
Calcium 380
Ammonia 0.125
pH 8.3
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5
Phosphate 0
I question the salinity because the hydrometer I use never seems to agree on what the salinity actually is. I ordered a real refractometer today... Maybe this is all because I can't read the salinity correctly idk..
The test tubes picture is me trying to read Ph. I actually tested 5 vials out of frustration. Two were yellow, three purple. Yellow = 7.4 pH purple being ~8.2-8.4.
There was a few weeks when the temperature got around 81.5 before I could get a fan. Tank is always between 77-78.5 now.
Does anybody have any opinions on what is going wrong here? I'm leaning my API test kit is awful and screwing me over, but idk it could be my moderately weak lighting, I really have no clue. Please help me out here guys I really want to do this right and figure out what's going wrong. Thank you thank you.
I'm relatively new to aquarium keeping, I bought a JBJ 45 gallon tank 8 months ago and have never been able to keep corals alive more than 4 months. I started with 3 Euphillias, thought everything was cool for 3 months, then had 2 peter away into nothingness. I realized I had a problem and assumed it was my water temps hitting 81.5 at times. I bought a fan and thought the issue was resolved. Then I bought a mushroom, a torch, and a small plate of assorted corals. I just this week had my last remaining original Euphillia die and realized its probably not the temperature messing this all up. Please help me fix this so nothing else dies!
JBJ RL-45
Current USA Orbit LED Light https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GFTNG3S
1 Jebao OW-25 set to medium high
Temperature controller, heater fan
Protein skimmer, filter socks, filter floss, IM media reactor with Dr Tim's NP-Active Pearls, everything cleaned regularly
RODI water and Instant Ocean salt
8 small clownfish and small assortment of snails and crabs. 5 gallon water changes approx 3 times a month.
Measured water parameters today and these are typical number I see:
Temp 78.2
Salinity 1.024??
dKH 8
Calcium 380
Ammonia 0.125
pH 8.3
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5
Phosphate 0
I question the salinity because the hydrometer I use never seems to agree on what the salinity actually is. I ordered a real refractometer today... Maybe this is all because I can't read the salinity correctly idk..
The test tubes picture is me trying to read Ph. I actually tested 5 vials out of frustration. Two were yellow, three purple. Yellow = 7.4 pH purple being ~8.2-8.4.
There was a few weeks when the temperature got around 81.5 before I could get a fan. Tank is always between 77-78.5 now.
Does anybody have any opinions on what is going wrong here? I'm leaning my API test kit is awful and screwing me over, but idk it could be my moderately weak lighting, I really have no clue. Please help me out here guys I really want to do this right and figure out what's going wrong. Thank you thank you.
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