alkalinity

Hi guys, This forum has been very helpful with all my beginner questions and was hoping some of you might shed some light on my ongoing problems with water chemistry. Tank has been up and running for about 2 months and the levels don't want to stabilize. LFS says the water still needs to buffer...

From two months i have been using calcium reactor on sps dominated 75 gallon tank. The calcium is stable around 430 ppm but the alkalinity keeps dropping if i dont dose alkalinity. Its like my tank is using alkalinity more than calcium. how can i keep both Ca and Kh stable using just calcium...

I have been monitoring my alk every day (mostly) for the past 2 weeks and have seen some interesting trends to which I cant figure out the cause. Tank is a 180 gallon 6x2x2 mixed reef. Three live rock pillars, sea floor special sand (1-2") Fish are: -Dejardini Tang -Blonde Naso Tang -Yellow...

@Randy Holmes-Farley if you may ... and I apologize in advanced if this has been raised in the past. By no means this is to compare between Randy's and Red Sea; I just want to understand. I was looking at your Alkalinity part (recipe #1 and recipe #2) Recipe #1 for pH below 8.3 (bake then...

I'm getting broke having to buy the ready-made liquid of Red Sea B, in saying that my intention is to stay with this brand and turning my head onto its powder version. For those that have utilize Red Sea B in powder version, can you tell me if it's hard to completely mix the powder and making...

This what I've experienced and some folks too who carbon dose, be that NoPox or Vinegar or Vodka. I can't remember what was the explanation for this. If I recall correctly it is definitely not due to corals uptake, nor precipitation. How does Carbon reduces Alkalinity?

I've been battling algae on my sand bed and rocks since i think my tank went through a mini-cycle about 2 months ago when I was vacuuming my sand bed during water changes. I do water changes every other week and do about 30 gallons and now, just vacuum the algae off the surface of the sandbed...

so I am getting more serious about my testing/dosing regime. I was using Ocean's Blend 2 part and I was reading about Randy's 2 different recipes and decided to by the BRS 2 part supplies because Randy mentioned in other posts that they use his recipe. I planned to use recipe 2 because I am...

Hey everyone, I am new, like literally signed up today. I have read a lot of info and learned a lot of things from this website so I thought I would join. I am fairly new to the hobby and am obsessed ( obviously) its so fun! Anyways my question is, what is the ideal numbers for alkalinity...

For some time now i've experienced a constant drop of my Alkalinity although my Calcium and Magnesium do not drop remotely as fast. It's perplexing. Does anyone have experience or insight as to what could be causing this?

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My current 2-part dosing schedule splits Alkalinity and Calcium into 2 separate times utilizing the Reeftronics program generator to program my Apex and BRS 1.1 mL peristaltic pumps. I dose 60ml of Alkalinity over the course of 12 hours from midnight to 1200 - my logic being to help buffer the...

I try to keep my tanks alk between 7-9 but when I use my red sea salt(not the pro) it brings my alk back up to 11. I was wondering if I had a bad batch of salt or something else.

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Hello, This is my first post so please forgive me if I "mess something up": I have a 175 gallon (+20 gallon refugium) mixed reef tank (LPS, softies, fish). Below are my current tank parameters Alkalinity - >14dKH (Red Sea Test Kit) pH - Fluctuates between 8.0-8.1 (lower at night; American...

So I put a new set of Recipe 2 Ca and alk gallons online a couple nights ago and I just noticed that the alkalinity part isn't turning the water cloudy anymore as it goes in the water. Same reagents and formula as always. (About 300+ grams/gallon.) Same old bag of arm & hammer. Anyone have...

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I have been researching Alkalinity levels in SPS dominant reef tanks and the numbers are all over the place. So I decided to poll R2R members and see where you like to keep your Alkalinity in your Reef tanks. Feel free to comment on what type of tank, salt, and method of Alkalinity...

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Based on the information below, can you solve the riddle? I have a 120g DT connected to a 40b frag tank and an Emerald 39 sump. I am dosing BRS two part on BRS peristaltic pumps running on an Apex controller. Mg is tested and dosed when needed (maybe monthly..) Alk Program: Fallback OFF OSC...

Hey all, doing my Alk test using a Red Sea test kit. Not sure if I'm doing it correctly. I am using the Red Sea mature pro kit to cycle my tank. When I add the first drop it doesn't get to the start color shown on the card. At drop 9 it gives me the color on the pic attached. If I read...

The solution that I use to raise Alkalinity is Red Sea Foundation B and it has some solids at the bottom, which I usually shake shake ... before dosing (pouring) it (manually) to the sump. I intend to automate the process by using dosing pump ... by automation, that means no more manual shake...

My favorite most helpful LFS closed and I'm having some issues with dosing calcium and alkalinity on my own! I dose a 2 part daily in my reef tank. My alkalinity is at 8.5 dKH (right where I want it) but my calcium blew up to over 500 ppm! I need to lower my calcium (I'd like to hit the 400...

Hi with the announcement of the P4 we also mentioned that Alkalinity and measurement of other parameters (e.g. Ca) are coming soon. Personally I didn't expect that much of feedback and interest in these planned new features for the ProfiLux, actually I wasn't aware that this is something...