Calcium up take at a low!

[CoralBeauties]

glad to hear things are working for the better.
jeff

[thepipbull]

Glad to hear lets see some pics

[erky]

A few of my acros and misc frogspawn

[thepipbull]

looking good Erky

[erky]

thanks that ANacropora has really taken off in the past 6 weeks its growing so fast, would love to find some other colors and thinking about fragging some here soon.

[CoralBeauties]

so now that this mess is getting better do you have any feelings on adding the t5 to your lighting?  I am thinking on taking off the added led strips I installed on my system and putting on the 2 t5 bulbs that I have.  I am thinking I have too much spotlighting with my current lights and alot of shadowing.   I have a nice piece of pinky the bear that is growing like a weed on half of it and not growing at all on the other half.  That is why I am thinking I am getting some spotlighting with my leds. 
Jeff

[erky]

so now that this mess is getting better do you have any feelings on adding the t5 to your lighting?  I am thinking on taking off the added led strips I installed on my system and putting on the 2 t5 bulbs that I have.  I am thinking I have too much spotlighting with my current lights and alot of shadowing.   I have a nice piece of pinky the bear that is growing like a weed on half of it and not growing at all on the other half.  That is why I am thinking I am getting some spotlighting with my leds. 
Jeff

Ive had t5's running since october on the tank. I did it because the lights are only 16 inch and there seemed to be a bare spot on the back row of my tank, and i had the light laying around anyways.  I think your your setup it would only benefit your goals. LEDs are great but so are T5's id say they compliment each other very well!

[erky]

been tracking my phosphates for the past few months, seems strange to me that they jump around so much, they go from .03 - .16 when I test every few days, anyone know a reason for this or is this common? Id like to keep them steady is possible.

[CoralBeauties]

What if anything are you using for phos reduction now? Testing with a Hanna checker?  If so run the test several times with the same test viles. I usually CK my several times till I get the same reading.
Jeff

[erky]

Hanna ulr tester

[CoralBeauties]

Test your sample multiple times and see if you get different readings.  I notice my first test is usually higher then the follow up tests.
Jeff

[erky]

Test your sample multiple times and see if you get different readings.  I notice my first test is usually higher then the follow up tests.
Jeff

will do

[erky]

for anyone following this thread, my tank has been bouncing back, so much that I started dosing nitrates again to keep them at 3-5ppm.

[CoralBeauties]

That's is great news.