commodore
01/02/2011, 01:11 PM
I run a good skimmer, carbon/gfo reactors, weekly water changes, 2 part supplementation, etc. I keep mainly soft corals and a few LPS. My corals just seem to survive and not grow.
I was looking at someone else's tank yesterday and the soft corals were doing well. He didn't supplement. CA/alk/mag, rarely changed water and didn't skim, yet his corals were doing better than mine. He suggested that perhaps I was doing too much and should turn off my skimmer and only run it occasionally. He said that my water may be too stripped of nutrients,etc. to support good soft coral growth.
Does that make sense? I thought that as long as I had decent lighting and maintained good water quality,ph and proper levels of CA/alk/mag, softies should flourish and over-skimming, and use of carbon/gfo reactors would do more good than harm.
Advice? Thanks
I was looking at someone else's tank yesterday and the soft corals were doing well. He didn't supplement. CA/alk/mag, rarely changed water and didn't skim, yet his corals were doing better than mine. He suggested that perhaps I was doing too much and should turn off my skimmer and only run it occasionally. He said that my water may be too stripped of nutrients,etc. to support good soft coral growth.
Does that make sense? I thought that as long as I had decent lighting and maintained good water quality,ph and proper levels of CA/alk/mag, softies should flourish and over-skimming, and use of carbon/gfo reactors would do more good than harm.
Advice? Thanks