alkalinity and ca swing

I wanted to write about this subject as I too started to dig into the world of chemistry and became determined to simplify the thousands of words and simple but yet complicated chemistry equations about Alkalinity. come to find out its not that complicated! So let's uncomplicated Alkalinity...

It’s impossible to keep ALK at 9. I find myself always on the higher end 11-12 / 180-198

Hello reefers, My last post somehow ended up without so I am reposting. i have this hammer coral which won’t extend its polyps. Everything else in the tank is opening, but this one is unhappy. Before it was on weaker flow and I tried moving it but that’s not the cause. so what happened is...

Hey everyone, so I’m trying to stabilize my parameters and get a good dosing schedule going but my calcium keeps rising and my alk keeps dropping pretty fast. I know that they are connected and that’s why that’s happening. My alk is currently around 10 dKH and my calcium 501ppm (trident system...

I have an very established 180 gal mostly Lps tank,and for example I have my alk dosing every other day 24 ml four times and 17 ml once, spaced from 7pm-2am. If I was to change my dosing pump to dose everyday with those same amounts just cut in half, would it swing my chemistry and cause...

Hello Everyone! So past couple of week ive been having problems measuring the daily dosage for my Mg, Ca, Alk. I was using salifert for all three and i would adjust all three to the recommended level then wait 4 days then remesure them, but i performed this 3 times all over and all three times...

Hi All, I have a 209G reef tank ( 10 years old) and use BRS 2-parts dosing of soda ash and and Ca chloride mix. I also dose Mg. I use trident analyzer to monitor all 3 parameters daily and control dosing. I can not get Alk and Ca stabilized. Alk goes high but Ca reduces. Then I stop dosing and...