hey all! Just wanted to post a helpful reminder to check your salinity and calibrate your refractometer! I had during lps corals and bleached sps for the the last week. I tested all parameters
Calcium:400
Alk: 9.2
Mag: 1245
Nitrate:5
Phosphate: .12
I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why my corals were fading away. I was talking to @usernam invalid and he said check your salinity. Sure enough I saw my calibration of my refractometer was way off and my salt was actually at 1.020. I did a water change with water at 1.022 and have salt in the top off so hopefully by the next 2 weeks everything g is back on track.
Just wanted to remind everyone how easy it is to overlook such a simple parameter
Calcium:400
Alk: 9.2
Mag: 1245
Nitrate:5
Phosphate: .12
I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why my corals were fading away. I was talking to @usernam invalid and he said check your salinity. Sure enough I saw my calibration of my refractometer was way off and my salt was actually at 1.020. I did a water change with water at 1.022 and have salt in the top off so hopefully by the next 2 weeks everything g is back on track.
Just wanted to remind everyone how easy it is to overlook such a simple parameter