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Okay I'm need of some advice. I cannot keep any sps alive for the life of me. My nems are doing good and my zoas look good and my one los looks good but I cannot keep sticks alive I even killed a birds nest.
Water parameters: just checked 10/31
Pos-.04 ‐.06
Nitrites around 4
Alk was steady at 8 just lowered it to 7.3 thinking I was burning them but bot the case.

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Have you checked your salinity, calcium, and magnesium? I would guess that you have. If they are all in line, and your lighting is good, I'd send a test off to Triton to see if anything is way off that you can't test for.

Any big swings in temperature or alk?

 

Dang I forgot to add that
Salinaty is 1.025
Cal 460
Mag 1360
No big swings on alk (other than me just lowering it) as I check 2x a week add alk daily its not much 30 mil. Coraline alge grows very fast. I'm just baffled. Maybe I should have raised instead of lowering.
Test kits are hanna and red sea.

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Your nutrients look fine. With cal 460, I would probably shoot for 8.5-9.0 for alk. But I don't see why your current readings would be a problem for SPS.

 

That's why I'm so baffled. Thanks for the input I will raise my alk slowly over the next or so and reevaluate from their

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Have you measured your PAR?

 

No, I have never checked my par.

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This could be your issue, SPS love light and it can be very hard to judge with your eye. Looks like you’re a member, borrow the GIRs PAR meter.