I need some help.
I have a 2.5 month old Red Sea Reefer - total water column is 112g. Have a bunch of coral that mix of SPS and soft (all looking good). I had ich in the tank about a month ago that killed everyone but a chromis and am waiting it out for the full 70+ days before putting other fish back in.
In my sump, I have bioblocks and skimmer in 2nd chamber, ton of sea lettuce in 3rd chamber. I added a CO2 scrubber to the skimmer that was working amazing until the pellets were used up, I changed them but have never been able to get the pH back up consistently ever since
Current water parameters are:
pH: 7.93
ORP: 238
Salinity: 1.027 (I know that's on the high side, I have a water change coming up)
Alk: 12 or more since I keep trying to add buffer in there to raise the pH
Ammonia: 0.25 - I stopped measuring this after all the fish died from ich. So I am not sure why it peaked up. I feed the chromis and coral every few days so ????
Ca: between 300 and 360 (i supplement regularly)
Magnesium: between 1240 and 1340 (I supplement regularly)
Nitrate, ite and Phos all zero
I tried adding ozone a few days ago thinking that maybe there was too much biomaterial - tank is clear but no change.
I will add buffer to the tank - the pH will jump about 0.2-0.3 then it will come right back to >8 in a matter of an hour or so. I'll add kalk...same thing.
I'm still figuring a lot of this out as I go so I apologize if this is beginner level stuff that I'm not getting
Help!
I have a 2.5 month old Red Sea Reefer - total water column is 112g. Have a bunch of coral that mix of SPS and soft (all looking good). I had ich in the tank about a month ago that killed everyone but a chromis and am waiting it out for the full 70+ days before putting other fish back in.
In my sump, I have bioblocks and skimmer in 2nd chamber, ton of sea lettuce in 3rd chamber. I added a CO2 scrubber to the skimmer that was working amazing until the pellets were used up, I changed them but have never been able to get the pH back up consistently ever since
Current water parameters are:
pH: 7.93
ORP: 238
Salinity: 1.027 (I know that's on the high side, I have a water change coming up)
Alk: 12 or more since I keep trying to add buffer in there to raise the pH
Ammonia: 0.25 - I stopped measuring this after all the fish died from ich. So I am not sure why it peaked up. I feed the chromis and coral every few days so ????
Ca: between 300 and 360 (i supplement regularly)
Magnesium: between 1240 and 1340 (I supplement regularly)
Nitrate, ite and Phos all zero
I tried adding ozone a few days ago thinking that maybe there was too much biomaterial - tank is clear but no change.
I will add buffer to the tank - the pH will jump about 0.2-0.3 then it will come right back to >8 in a matter of an hour or so. I'll add kalk...same thing.
I'm still figuring a lot of this out as I go so I apologize if this is beginner level stuff that I'm not getting
Help!