you know what you're doing suggest run that cal 460 to also help bring down kh
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Hahaha I don’t know what I’m doing! It’s just the water changes that have been keeping the levels elevatedyou know what you're doing suggest run that cal 460 to also help bring down kh
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You guys....
I'm scratching my head so hard. Ive been dosing 20mL (started with 10mL) for 10 days now. My nitrates arent budging... I'm only feeding mysis 2x a week, and pellets are on auto feeder 3x a day on the smallest opening.
I can tell the corals are happier, they are much more fluorescent before the whites kick on in the morning. However, I am lost and confused as to how long to keep dosing 20mL every single day. I test NO3, dose, then about 4 hours later I test NO3 again, and its been between 25-50ppm every single day. I have no idea why it's not budging! So frustrating.
Looks great to me. Not sure I would do anything but maybe a water change.So I finally bit the bullet and bought all the other test kits i needed (PO4 and Mg)
Here's my full spec numbers as of today:
Alk- 15+ --- this is the obvious culprit and idk how to lower it :/
Ca- 400
Mg- 1350
NO3- 30
PO4- 0.9
pH- 8.0
sal- 1.024
PO4 is a little on the high side but so is NO3, so on a ratio side they are pretty on point. Also, just by visibility point theres no algae growing in the display, just the refugium.
I am going to try @Randy Holmes-Farley 's trick and use sodium bisulfate to lower the alk. I have seachem's marine buffer" to keep the pH from dropping.
Still, everything is looking beautiful minus the walt disney and myagi tort --- birdsnest is fat and happy!
Good to see you Ali.. How have you been?? We get 1yrs pics?;Peeking;PeekingMy one year tank-aversary is coming up soon
I'd run both again see if you get an consistencyDoing a deep clean today so I can take pictures tonight
But I have a quick question.
which would you trust more:
I have the Hanna ULR phosphate checker
I took an original 10mL sample and it said my PO4 was 0.9ppm
Then I took a 100mL sample and it said my PO4 was 0.05 (at 100mL— so actually 0.5)
which would you trust more?