another pic of the bottom of the paver. check outhe the black stain…
The black color is normal. You’ll see that an inch down in live sand too.
Yes
I’m still going with too clean! Hopefully getting the pavers out makes a difference! I still have to get over to see the tank again sometime soon! Keep us posted.
Thanks for the responses. Both pavers are out and I’m pretty happy with the new scape. Big thanks to Christian for helping me with this today. I’ll take some pics tomorrow when everything settles down.
When you first set your tank up, didn’t you have some sort of problem with algae ? Think these pavers are to blame for that also?
And yes I kno I can’t spell
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When you first set your tank up, didn’t you have some sort of problem with algae ? Think these pavers are to blame for that also?
And yes I kno I can’t spell
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I think the initial outbreak was just some of the new tank uglies combined with dry rock that wasn’t 100% cured.
Why did you think it was ok to put pavers that are chemicaly treated in your tank? Wish i knew that sooner i would.have told you that wasnt a good idea…
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Why did you think it was ok to put pavers that are chemicaly treated in your tank? Wish i knew that sooner i would.have told you that wasnt a good idea…[/quote]
That lighting guy, Dr Sanjay was using them. And Bryant. I blame Bryant. J/K
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Why did you think it was ok to put pavers that are chemicaly treated in your tank? Wish i knew that sooner i would.have told you that wasnt a good idea…[/quote]
I should point out that theven pavers appeared to be basic, gray pavers that weren’t treated or stained in any way when I first bought them.
I’m sticking with lighting being the problem. I doubt the pavers were causing your issues. If they were leaching something you wouldn’t have poor growth, you’d have dead corals.
I have also been told that once corals go into hibernation mode they need something to kickstart them again, I have been told to frag it and it will start growing again if conditions are good.
See if you can take par readings. The club may have a par meter to borrow.
Here is a link to Melev par testing. Toward the end he took readings for individual corals.
Interesting
We have a seneye meter floating around somewhere. You can also get a lux meter for under $20 from Amazon. I just put mine in a ziploc bag and it works fine underwater. You just need to calibrate the loss from the bag.
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We had one but someone broke it. We were supposed to get the parts to fix it but not sure if that was done or not.
Nope still in my garage, Apogee said they would send me the part but never did, and when I tried to order it it would not let me order since I did not have the serial number the part is only $15.00.
I will reach out to them again.
Get the new sensor calibrated for LEDs!!! 
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Get the new sensor calibrated for LEDs!!! :)[/quote]
We have a MQ-200 I don’t think it supports the full spectrum sensor and it would be a lot more then the 15 bucks and shipping.
We can do the math with the MQ-200 and get ballpark results