Hello everyone, . So basically I’ve had a waterbox 50.3 AIO system since December I had a ton of corals and it was doing great till I was back in school and kinda of neglected it and didn’t check on it as much other then to feed the fish. After awhile I had a big crash and Dino’s came and practically wiped the entire tank except the fish. (One died) and after that crash I completely neglected the tank and could care less about it. It would have tons and tons of gha then I would run treatment and cyano would pop up, then treatment again and it would go back to gha. But recently I finally decided I want to get this tank back under control and start an sps dominant tank. Oh and while there were no corals I had my dosers running and when I finally tested the water a couple days ago it was insane. I will attach results, i then did a 20 gallon water change so practically 45% maybe to lower these parameters. I also was not running a skimmer for quite awhile due to the treatments.
07/25/23: 50.3
PH: 8.2
Ammonia: 0.25ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 40 ppm
Phosphate: .50 ppm possibly
No skimmer active and loss of flow
I currently just tested alkalinity and it’s at like 13.7-14. Calicum is at 500+ ppm plus I can only see to 500 on my redsea test kit. So I’m just going to assume between 500-600 easily. I guess the tank just racked up all these numbers with the dosers being on and nothing in the tank but fish. But with this high alk that means calcium should be reduced which then means my calcium had to be through the roof at maybe 1000ppm who knows
7/30/23: 50.3
Summary: turned off dosers because there were no corals and parameters were extremely high.
Test Kit Red Sea Foundation Pro:
Alkalinity: 10.6 dkh
Calcium: 500 ppm
Magnesium: 1400 ppm
Test Kit API:
High range PH: 8.0
Ammonia: looking like maybe 0-0.5 maybe, doesn’t look fully yellow(showing zero)
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Phosphate: 0.25 ppm
Nitrate: looks to be 20 ppm
Equipment and what I’m running (7/30/23):
Water box 50.3 AIO
Skimmer
Filter floss
1 fluval Phosphate filter pad absorber (for fun)
A bag of gfo
Couple bags of carbon
Filter mesh
1 Nero on max (2000 GPH)
Waiting for my other one to get replaced
1 jebeo sow-4 max speed
1 jebeao slw-10
2 AI hydra 32hd
2 dosers dosing calcium and alkalinity
3 clowns and one baby wrasse.
So what should I do with my parameters know in order to get ready for sps like acros and stuff. Feeding in the first pic. I attached what it used to look like. And last thing for quite a long time I wasn’t running my lights at all to prevent algae growth but I did get a lot of it under control so I turned my lights on just a little. Thank you for reading this if you make it down here. Please help
07/25/23: 50.3
PH: 8.2
Ammonia: 0.25ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 40 ppm
Phosphate: .50 ppm possibly
No skimmer active and loss of flow
I currently just tested alkalinity and it’s at like 13.7-14. Calicum is at 500+ ppm plus I can only see to 500 on my redsea test kit. So I’m just going to assume between 500-600 easily. I guess the tank just racked up all these numbers with the dosers being on and nothing in the tank but fish. But with this high alk that means calcium should be reduced which then means my calcium had to be through the roof at maybe 1000ppm who knows
7/30/23: 50.3
Summary: turned off dosers because there were no corals and parameters were extremely high.
Test Kit Red Sea Foundation Pro:
Alkalinity: 10.6 dkh
Calcium: 500 ppm
Magnesium: 1400 ppm
Test Kit API:
High range PH: 8.0
Ammonia: looking like maybe 0-0.5 maybe, doesn’t look fully yellow(showing zero)
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Phosphate: 0.25 ppm
Nitrate: looks to be 20 ppm
Equipment and what I’m running (7/30/23):
Water box 50.3 AIO
Skimmer
Filter floss
1 fluval Phosphate filter pad absorber (for fun)
A bag of gfo
Couple bags of carbon
Filter mesh
1 Nero on max (2000 GPH)
Waiting for my other one to get replaced
1 jebeo sow-4 max speed
1 jebeao slw-10
2 AI hydra 32hd
2 dosers dosing calcium and alkalinity
3 clowns and one baby wrasse.
So what should I do with my parameters know in order to get ready for sps like acros and stuff. Feeding in the first pic. I attached what it used to look like. And last thing for quite a long time I wasn’t running my lights at all to prevent algae growth but I did get a lot of it under control so I turned my lights on just a little. Thank you for reading this if you make it down here. Please help
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