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Hopefully I didn’t nuke my tank. I was manually adding some alk with my doser when my son started screaming. So I did the dad thing and went and checked on him. Come back down and here my dosing pump. Oh crap. I ended up dumping around 30ounces of brs alk mix into my 40g tank. It was clowdy, white and had chucks of alk all over the tank. I only have 20g of saltwater mixed at the moment. 40g alk was a 8.5. But my saltwater is 11. ****.
luckily for me I have a 200g system 10 feet away. And since it’s just fish at the moment(no coral yet), it’s alk was fairly low, around 6.5.
Well I’m now syphon if water between the two tanks. Based on my calculations, this should bring the alk to around 12dkh. While this sucks, after a 50% water Change on The 40g. The alk was over what the test could test.
I’m kinda venting, I have a 23head torch, 5 head torch, 30+ head Duncan, a couple small acros and misc coral in that tank. I’m really hoping I don’t loose them. The ph jumped to over 9.5. Ph is back to 8, alk it down to 13. While there’s still going to be an alk spike. I hope my coral make it. This has all happened In the last hour. So hopefully I didn’t make it worst by dropping it so fast. But then again, they would have died if I left it.
Im glad fish don’t mind alk changes .
luckily for me I have a 200g system 10 feet away. And since it’s just fish at the moment(no coral yet), it’s alk was fairly low, around 6.5.
Well I’m now syphon if water between the two tanks. Based on my calculations, this should bring the alk to around 12dkh. While this sucks, after a 50% water Change on The 40g. The alk was over what the test could test.
I’m kinda venting, I have a 23head torch, 5 head torch, 30+ head Duncan, a couple small acros and misc coral in that tank. I’m really hoping I don’t loose them. The ph jumped to over 9.5. Ph is back to 8, alk it down to 13. While there’s still going to be an alk spike. I hope my coral make it. This has all happened In the last hour. So hopefully I didn’t make it worst by dropping it so fast. But then again, they would have died if I left it.
Im glad fish don’t mind alk changes .