Ok so I’m 2 months in. 46 gallon bow front, pair of ai primes, live rock, live sand, 8 crabbies, only one snail left, royale gramma, yellow eye kole tang, dragon goby, fairy wrasse, pair clowns, green star polyp.
my issue is alkalinity/ph. My ph stands at 8.3 pretty much all day every day but alkalinity seems to lose about 3/4 point each day so I’ve been adding about3/4 to 1 teaspoon of seachem reef builder every night in my top off RODI water.
All other parameters are perfect ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 0, phos 0, calcium 430-450. Salinity 1.026, temp. 79-80 very little fluctuations. I use BRS mini reactor with 1/2cup rox.08 and 1/4cup GFO. I have 10 gallon sump with refugium filled with marine pure blocks, Chaeto (which is turning white) and sea lettuce (hoping it grows better) I have a huge colony of copepods/amphipods and even saw and caught bristle worm (The good kind) last week. Hoping I don’t get many of those nasty creatures.
Ok so now the advice part?
when I start adding corals I’m pretty sure the alkalinity will need even more buffer. What is the best way to make this automatic? Should I get the 2 part with dose pumps from BRS? It’s like $190 -$200. Or is there a better way? Easier? Cheaper? is the way I’m doing it now ok?
also I don’t have a skimmer yet but honestly I don’t foresee needing one as my nitrates are being destroyed by my filtration. I also have a Eheim 4+ 600 canister running independently with its own return and intake.Mabye I’m overdoing it? Looks clear as ever since adding reactor.
my issue is alkalinity/ph. My ph stands at 8.3 pretty much all day every day but alkalinity seems to lose about 3/4 point each day so I’ve been adding about3/4 to 1 teaspoon of seachem reef builder every night in my top off RODI water.
All other parameters are perfect ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 0, phos 0, calcium 430-450. Salinity 1.026, temp. 79-80 very little fluctuations. I use BRS mini reactor with 1/2cup rox.08 and 1/4cup GFO. I have 10 gallon sump with refugium filled with marine pure blocks, Chaeto (which is turning white) and sea lettuce (hoping it grows better) I have a huge colony of copepods/amphipods and even saw and caught bristle worm (The good kind) last week. Hoping I don’t get many of those nasty creatures.
Ok so now the advice part?
when I start adding corals I’m pretty sure the alkalinity will need even more buffer. What is the best way to make this automatic? Should I get the 2 part with dose pumps from BRS? It’s like $190 -$200. Or is there a better way? Easier? Cheaper? is the way I’m doing it now ok?
also I don’t have a skimmer yet but honestly I don’t foresee needing one as my nitrates are being destroyed by my filtration. I also have a Eheim 4+ 600 canister running independently with its own return and intake.Mabye I’m overdoing it? Looks clear as ever since adding reactor.