Hey everyone,
I need some help here please. I have 160gals in total - 90 display, 40 frag and trigger platinum sump. I regularly was dosing 80-100 ml of alk throughout the day. I went to increase my dose one night about 3 weeks ago and ended up fat fingering the dose to 1000ml instead of 100ml. By the time I saw the trident alert in the am it had dose like 400ml. Luck had it that I received about 8 new acros same day. I did a small water change, cleaned up what I could and let the dkh drop back down.
After that incident it seems like my alk and cal consumption is way too much now. For a while I thought it was from the 16 new frags I have added but in order to keep the Alk around 11 know I am dosing 300ML and 100Ml of calc. I did a major cleanup of sump and tanks yesterday again and continued my dosing. I have tested the water w/ trident and Red Sea kits and the readings are the same. If I don't dose any alk I will drop 2 dkh if not more. Is it possible for that size of a tank to possibly be consuming this much? The supplements are not building up in the sump (have powerhead circulating that area) and the water is not cloudy.
I am using Red Sea foundation and trace colors.
Any insight or suggestions on how to get things back on track?
Thanks so much~!
I need some help here please. I have 160gals in total - 90 display, 40 frag and trigger platinum sump. I regularly was dosing 80-100 ml of alk throughout the day. I went to increase my dose one night about 3 weeks ago and ended up fat fingering the dose to 1000ml instead of 100ml. By the time I saw the trident alert in the am it had dose like 400ml. Luck had it that I received about 8 new acros same day. I did a small water change, cleaned up what I could and let the dkh drop back down.
After that incident it seems like my alk and cal consumption is way too much now. For a while I thought it was from the 16 new frags I have added but in order to keep the Alk around 11 know I am dosing 300ML and 100Ml of calc. I did a major cleanup of sump and tanks yesterday again and continued my dosing. I have tested the water w/ trident and Red Sea kits and the readings are the same. If I don't dose any alk I will drop 2 dkh if not more. Is it possible for that size of a tank to possibly be consuming this much? The supplements are not building up in the sump (have powerhead circulating that area) and the water is not cloudy.
I am using Red Sea foundation and trace colors.
Any insight or suggestions on how to get things back on track?
Thanks so much~!
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