Really don’t know what’s been up with my tank as some of my corals just aren’t doing so well and i’m also losing some, i’ve been chasing my phosphates and nitrates which i’ve finally learned how to keep them stable now im just trying to figure out what’s going on with my ph and akalinity. my zoas are barely opening, my plate coral is one foot out the door and so is my blasto and now my goni doesn’t open which since i’ve had it barely opened a bit and i don’t know why? I make my own water using a brs 6 stage rodi system and i use fritz salt at 1.025. I test pretty often with the hanna 9 in one tester and my parameters currently are sitting at
alkalinity: 11.5
phosphates: 0.09
nitrates: 2.0
pH: 7.7
calcium: 574
magnesium: 1430
my alkalinity is slowly coming down as i’ve seen it as high as 19 i’m not sure how it ever got that high as i’m not really sure how you can get it go down unless it’s done naturally, so i’m the right track. i haven’t been able to test nitrates since i didn’t have reagents until today so i can imagine it needs to be sitting around 10-14 so i fed a little more then usual to help raise that. My tank doesn’t eat up both nutrients like some tanks do even though i run gfo/carbon through a reactor and also chaeto which seems to never grow in my sump. I was dosing nopox for some time and since then i’ve weened my tank off of it. My calcium was low as 330 so i dosed 10ml of api calcium and it jumped pretty fast surprisingly and too high. My tanks only 5 months old and i don’t dose anything crazy other than trace elements ever wc and stress zyme. For the time being when my phosphates were sitting around .90 and nitrates were unknown so my water changes were probably around 30% maybe more which i can assume is way too much but now i just do around a 20% every week or when i notice my nutrients get too high.
my tank is a 35 gal cube, tank mates consist of 1 maroon clown 1 bullet hole clown 1 flamehawk fish 1 mandrian goby 1 midas blenny 1 six line wrasse
corals are mostly softs, lps and euhphyllia
CUC: 2 conchs 5-10 blue legged hermits snails maybe 5 or so 1 emerald crab
alkalinity: 11.5
phosphates: 0.09
nitrates: 2.0
pH: 7.7
calcium: 574
magnesium: 1430
my alkalinity is slowly coming down as i’ve seen it as high as 19 i’m not sure how it ever got that high as i’m not really sure how you can get it go down unless it’s done naturally, so i’m the right track. i haven’t been able to test nitrates since i didn’t have reagents until today so i can imagine it needs to be sitting around 10-14 so i fed a little more then usual to help raise that. My tank doesn’t eat up both nutrients like some tanks do even though i run gfo/carbon through a reactor and also chaeto which seems to never grow in my sump. I was dosing nopox for some time and since then i’ve weened my tank off of it. My calcium was low as 330 so i dosed 10ml of api calcium and it jumped pretty fast surprisingly and too high. My tanks only 5 months old and i don’t dose anything crazy other than trace elements ever wc and stress zyme. For the time being when my phosphates were sitting around .90 and nitrates were unknown so my water changes were probably around 30% maybe more which i can assume is way too much but now i just do around a 20% every week or when i notice my nutrients get too high.
my tank is a 35 gal cube, tank mates consist of 1 maroon clown 1 bullet hole clown 1 flamehawk fish 1 mandrian goby 1 midas blenny 1 six line wrasse
corals are mostly softs, lps and euhphyllia
CUC: 2 conchs 5-10 blue legged hermits snails maybe 5 or so 1 emerald crab