corals getting drab

[parrotchute]

My corals are starting to fade (especially the eagle eye zoos) - think it's more likely to be lighting, water quality, or additives?
I'm running T5s (4 mos old) and doing weekly 15% water changes, so I think the lighting & supplements (from the water change) should be good...

 

[daugherty]

What des your water test out to be

 

[parrotchute]

AM 0 Nitrite .1 Nitrate 2.5. I don't feed them much and I do weekly water changes and that's as low as I can get them...trying to get them better.

 

[daugherty]

could be your nitrite you need to get that down that could be fatel

 

[parrotchute]

Yeah, I've been trying to get it down, just did a water change too. I'm starting to wonder if it's a bad test kit, going to get a different brand today and check it out - it's been like that for a WHILE and it just won't go down...nothing seems to be affected by it, which is weird.

 

[daugherty]

could be a bad test kit have your ls check your water.

 

[yote]

I'll bet your nitrite kit is bad.It should be reading zero,or you'd probably alreadt lost some corals and fish both.
Could be that your magnesium is a little low too,but thats just a guess.

 

[XxKnuckleheadxX]

i would get some salifert test kits. but also take it to your lfs and have them test it like said above.

 

[parrotchute]

I got an API test kit and it read 0 on nitrites! Kind of sketchy that the marine lab one was off by so much, seems kind of strange that it'd be possible for chemicals to be inaccurate like that. I guess there's the possibility of contamination or something..

So levels are good, not testing for magnesium...I was looking at coral supplements today at the LFS (ended up buying a big piece of base rock & some more nass snails too) but couldn't decide what I needed to get to help my corals.

 

[XxKnuckleheadxX]

try some roti feast or marine solutions to help feed.