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Calcium, calcium, where for art thou?

April 26, 2017art calcium Thou

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Calcium, calcium, where for art thou?

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Hello all, Thank you in advance and again for your incredible advice. I have a question regarding calcium levels with a brief aside to my bubble coral. I’ve attached 5 pictures of my 150 which is 19 months established. What you cannot see in the pictures are the protein skimmer, UV sterilizer, Phosban reactor, Chiller, Wavemaster controller and refugium. I’ve been running the following levels for a year now since Bob gave me the advice. Salinity 1.025, PH 8.2, Phosphates 0, Alkalinity 6.5, Calcium 450, Temp 75. My corals have exploded over that time period! The second picture is of my bubble coral and the two clowns that adopted it a year ago when their LTA didn’t survive. The bubble never seemed to mind. I noticed about a week ago that the bubble was either opening for a short period of time, opening only on one side or not at all. I thought perhaps that the clowns were getting too big and/or being too aggressive for its liking. Today, there are only a few small bubbles that op