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Hello. I've been really struggling with making sense of my alkalinity consumption. A little bit on the system. It's a 50 gallon display with a 29 gallon sump.
So I took same data on consumption at various starting alkalinity. I confirmed that consumption drops as alkalinity increases. Here is the chart. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
- 60 gallons total water volume
- combined carbon/GFO reactor
- top off water has 5 tsp kalkwasser per 5 gallons of water
- About 40 lbs of live rock and about a box and a half of those ceramic bio sphere balls in the sump
- Nitrate is always zero
- Phosphates basically zero on the meter
- Magnesium runs about 1380 ppm
- pH hovers between 7.9 - 8.1 using a CO2 scrubber on the skimmer air intake line
- I have 8 small corals and five (5) fish
So I took same data on consumption at various starting alkalinity. I confirmed that consumption drops as alkalinity increases. Here is the chart. Any thoughts would be appreciated.