Ah ha!

Got you to look!

Do any of you stick folks have a hard time with LPS or Softies? Reason I'm asking is that I've a Kenya that seems to be sloughing off tissue which I repeatedly cut back. An Open Brain (trachy?) that may have been a file fish that decided it no longer needed it's mouth section. And for the life of me by now after a year I should have a lot of 'shrooms but they just don't seem to grow that well for me.

Additionally, and this is worthwhile for future buyers, the only zoas I seem to be able to keep are the more hardier species.

Now all of my sticks are showing growth. Every last one of them is either spreading a disk at their base or branching out noticably. I don't have the color varient that I've seen in some of your tanks, but they're doing well as far as growth.

I run ten T5 tubes inside my canopy, and the spectrum can probably be dialed in a bit better. Right now I can tell you that I have a couple of whites, a couple blues, and a couple of purple/violate tubes labled "coral excellerator" and "Coral Stimulant".

I dose kalk, until recently, by hand. One teaspoon disolved in RO (about a gallon) poured into the sump around four am. I've since hooked up a aqualift pump to a five gallon container filled with solution. And I stir that before I bed down for the night.

My parameters are all zero for the important stuff (AM, Trite, and Trate)... and I know what you all are thinking, everyone's 'trate is always zero. I tested mine for the first time in about four months over the weekend and the color was so light it didn't even register on that color chart. I blame this on the vast and copious amounts of Cyano Bacteria which I've read tends to love 'trates. My PH was just a bit low, but who can really tell with those colors?

I haven't checked CA or Alk... primarily because my sps seem to be doing fine.

Okay, so I can get back to work my question is rather simple. Do any of you SPS folks find the same difficulties in maintainging the lps and softies?