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And even a 1 gallon water to 1/2 cup mix to get 1.025.
Lol. Don’t assume your fish shops salinity is correct, check for yourself. I think lots of folks get salinity wrong.what does all that mean!!!! so many words and numbers!! sometimes I think he writes to frustrate...his articles need more pictures!!! (although there's quite a few in that one )
If you don't get your parameters in order all you will have left in your tank is nuisance algae.thanks all.
Dosing a liquid nitrate or more heavy feeding. Am I looking for trouble with green hair algae and nusciance algae?
That's incorrect but if your nutrients are bottomed out like they are now you open the door for dinos which makes GHA seem like a cool breeze on a hot day.What mean is typically higher nitrates and phosphates equal a lawn on the rocks. If that happens then I just dump the tank( oh the money that would be wasted).
I will retest the alk later.
This is so true. Algae is good. It is part of the complete biome in a tank and managing it is key.90g tank so you should invest in a tang or foxface to deal with any nuisance algae. Algae is good. Just have to manage it so it doesn't take over the tank.
Some corals I have had since the beginning. They just don’t grow or actually shrink.
thanks all.
Dosing a liquid nitrate or more heavy feeding. Am I looking for trouble with green hair algae and nusciance algae?
Took some water to a LFS to compare numbers.
PH 8.0
Ammon 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 8
Sal 1.023
Phos 0
Cal 278
Alk 11.56
Mag 1149
My Salifert kit had Alk at 13 this morning.
I am not sure what they used. On the Salifert the Alk was 13 and CA 330. Raising the CA should lower the Alk. Along with water changes.
I am not dosing anything.
From what I have read. Elevated Alk will allow coralline to grow more so now that makes sense.
that is the plan. Making up more water this week. Will test. I also calibrated the refractometer with calibration fluid. It was off .01.I would just let the alk drop and then dose calcium back up or just do water changes. Test some brand new water and see what that reads.
Did you get those nitrates and phosphates up?Update. Started dosing more reef energy (twice a week). Most LPS the tank are status quo. Not allot of growth but alive it always. Some have shrunk. Increasing the lighting has a positive affect on the Zoas lower in the tank. Some are starting to come out more and spreading . Richordeas are shrinking and will be gone soon. Coraline still looks ok. Held off on water changes for the past 2 months. But will do one in a few weeks.