paramaters

I purchased a tank off of Facebook marketplace. I was understood it to be a cycled tank. But when purchased I was only given 5 gallons of the water. There for I made all new water. I know my tank is acting a little funny and not opening up like it should. I bought the regular test kits and all...

For anyone who has the HI97115. What have you found to be helpful when using it? Here are a couple mods I have made; 1) Mark caps, alignment arrow is annoyingly hard to find early in the morning when I do my testing. I also mark one with a C to indicate my clean sample that I use to get the...

Hi everyone, Setting up a new tank (total water volume will be between 265-280 gallons) New to the world of calcium reactors I don’t have a budget, just wondering what are the best high and then mid range calcium reactors are and what the benefits of one over another are. For context this...

last parameters reading at 9-28-23. Salt water master kit: Nitrate- 0 Nitrite- 0.25 Ammonia- 0 PH- 8.0 Reef master kit: Nitrate- 0 Calcium- 22dkh / 440ppm Phosphate- 2.0 KH- 8dkh / 143.2ppm Am i due for my 3-5days water/reef testing?

Hi everyone I have a question. What’s a good and safe way to raise phosphates? I always read that you wanted your nitrates and phosphates to be o. But since getting back into the hobby I’ve seen/read you’ll want a little of both in your tank. I started my tank in July so still new but just...

Is the Aqua Medic water testing company still in business? I found information on Bulk Reef Supply about them and their test is what I’m looking for but I can’t seem to find anywhere to actually purchase it from. Is this still a company? If so, does anybody have a link to where I could purchase...

Hi all. My anemones has been looking worse and worse over the course of the past month or so. Started off looking awesome which I have attached to the pics. Since then I’ve had one move all around the tank and the other just not fully opened. Parameters are below. Would appreciate any insight...

2 and a half months in with my first tank. 13.5 Fluval evo. After I cycled the tank I slowly added a couple fish and coral. 2 clowns Neon goby CUC 2 zoanthid 1 Frogspawn my parameters are Ammonia-0 Nitrite-0 Nitrate-40 ph- 7.8 Alkalinity- 8.3 Calcium- 370 Phosphate- 0 I know those aren’t...

I have 5 Hanna checkers for sale. A phosphate ULR, Nitrate LR, pH, alkalinity, and calcium. All are lightly used and in good shape. All have reagant except for the nitrate tester which is out of liquid reagent after the bottle leaked. Looking to sell them as a package or separately. Dm me for...

Hello, I am wanting to hear from some experienced reefers and get some advice on how I should approach this situation. I have noticed in the last 2-3 weeks small changes to my zoanthids, chalice, and overall look of my tank. Specifically, zoas seem to have a few heads close or barely open...

I know this is going to be controversial… I have a 13.5 Fluval and I’ve been running it at about 82 degrees. I’ve read that this can help cut down Dino’s growth. It seems to be helping. Any idea what long term effects of this increased temp may be? The corals seem fine but I could be doing...

I am dosing iquatics kh buffer daily (0.3g) to maintain kh 8.4 Whilst calcium stays steady at 420-400, magnesium is dropping. I am dosing magnesium salt every day to maintain at 1360. Without this it falls to around 1200. Even a water change will lower it to 1290. salt params are way higher...

Tank isn’t really new (about 14 months) but I’m having a parameter consumption problem. I water change 20L (tank is 60L) Saturday every week. Salt mix is: kh 9.8 mg 1340 , ca 440 Before water change parameters were : Kh 7.0 mg 1200 ca 400 After water change: Kh 8.4 mg 1200 ca 400 24 hours...

Hello all. Happy Saturday. I made a post last Friday. Feel free to look at it. I added fish (clownsthe following day (last sat). Also added the pulsing Xenia and GSP. The fish have done well and we’re eating great. I bought them from the Corner Reef in St. Louis. Not sure if my tank was fully...

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...

Hi all, I have a 40 g sumpless system running a canister filter. The canister is mostly filled with Matrix and has some floss for general waste capture. I’ve recently upgraded from FOWLR to starting with some corals, upgraded the lighting to a Kessill A160 blue. Current stocking is 2 clowns...

Last week my alkaline was low at 6.4 22nd: ka-7.9 Mg-1410 Ca-445 today: ka-9.2 Mg-1390 Ca-465 I’ve not been adding anything I’ve just been doing weekly water changes and topping up with ro water when needed.

Bubble algae issue is getting way out of hand, I’ve got 6 emerald crabs in a 50 g display (90g system) and they haven’t made a dent. Manual removal isn’t really an option most of the rock work is covered in coral or fused together with putty making it way too large to pull out. I try to scrape...

I’m currently going through the ugly stage and today added a few snails and hermit crabs. As well as a pair of clowns. i currently now have 3 chromis and two clowns. I tested my water and shop said it was fine…but to me the nitrates look to high, I’ve done a 20% water change and will test...

Hi, we’ve started noticing tissue recession in our 24k lepto and our cyphastrea which were previously doing really well, we also have a favia suddenly missing a chunk. In addition, a lot of our euphilia are not extending like they used to. Anyone seen this before or know what might be the...

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...

Hi all, So my chemistry was going well after cycling new tank in December 2021. It was my first aquascape attempt, and was in the middle of the ugly stage so I was doing a clean. During the clean, I knocked the top rock off and it almost crushed my torch and conch snail. Because I didn’t...

Hi guys! I have had a fluval Evo for nearly a year. My plan was Xenia hell, because who doesn't love a tank with Xenia on every surface and a couple clowns to play in it? Apparently this tank had other ideas. If it is soft, it dies. Soft corals, mushroom coral, xenia, zoas, seahares...

Hello all! I currently have a 60 gallon reed tank that has been having some problems. I run 2 AI prime lights in my tank and seem to notice a couple things. My acans have not seemed to do very well where the light hits em, however they are encrusted to the actual rock. Also, many of my corals...

How/why would my nitrate swing so much throughout the day? And how to correct it? 100 gallon tank, 4 months old, transfer from 2 year old 40 gallon, mostly softy and LPS, few SPS. I attached pictures of the readings. But at times, I have tested NO3 in the course of a day and it can swing from...