So looking for a little feedback as I am new to corals in general and only kept FOWLR
Brief backstory: 3/2 I picked up 4 SPS at a CMAS fund raiser that were not in the best of shape when I got them home. They were pretty chunky frags. Well same night I kind of went a little wild and bought 8 frag seeds in the JF live sale. Well I decided..hmm maybe I should check my Alk and discovered my Alk was at 4.035. and my Cal was not even turning Blue on my New Red Sea Pro test which was due to being very high. So immediately grabbed my Triton test box pulled water and sent it out. So over the last few weeks I have been slowly rising my Alk up to where it is currently tonight.
So the facts currently:
Alk: 8.6 dkh(hanna)
Calc: 469ppm (triton results came back as high been creeping down very slowly). This number was measured with a Hanna checker
Mag: 1325ppm (need to adjust up to 1450)
PH: 8.2
Salinity: 34ppm ( will adjust on water change)
temp: 78*
lights: are 2x Maxspect Ethereal, Shifted light to the blue side. Was running the BRS AB+ setting for them and was not pulling enough par even below the surface (measured by my Apogee sq-520 sensor connected to my laptop). Frag rack with the JF stuff is sitting at 253 Par, the others 4 are anywhere from 150 to 221 par ( first lesson I learned is no never glue to my live-rock directly again. Will attach to rock rubble going forward)
Observations:
So question: I am noticing though that I am blowing through 0.5 DKH a day for 4 chunky size frags and JF 8 frag seeds. Does that sound right? I am using for my tank (about 90 Gal total volume) 13ml of Red Sea Foundation part B a day to hold in the 8.5-8.6 range. Once my Cal drops below 450 I will start to add part A.
Thanks
Tom
Brief backstory: 3/2 I picked up 4 SPS at a CMAS fund raiser that were not in the best of shape when I got them home. They were pretty chunky frags. Well same night I kind of went a little wild and bought 8 frag seeds in the JF live sale. Well I decided..hmm maybe I should check my Alk and discovered my Alk was at 4.035. and my Cal was not even turning Blue on my New Red Sea Pro test which was due to being very high. So immediately grabbed my Triton test box pulled water and sent it out. So over the last few weeks I have been slowly rising my Alk up to where it is currently tonight.
So the facts currently:
Alk: 8.6 dkh(hanna)
Calc: 469ppm (triton results came back as high been creeping down very slowly). This number was measured with a Hanna checker
Mag: 1325ppm (need to adjust up to 1450)
PH: 8.2
Salinity: 34ppm ( will adjust on water change)
temp: 78*
lights: are 2x Maxspect Ethereal, Shifted light to the blue side. Was running the BRS AB+ setting for them and was not pulling enough par even below the surface (measured by my Apogee sq-520 sensor connected to my laptop). Frag rack with the JF stuff is sitting at 253 Par, the others 4 are anywhere from 150 to 221 par ( first lesson I learned is no never glue to my live-rock directly again. Will attach to rock rubble going forward)
Observations:
- The 4 frags that I picked up at the fund raiser are bouncing back and I think are going to be pretty cool looking.
- I will say.. my Coralline Algae is taking off like crazy again.
So question: I am noticing though that I am blowing through 0.5 DKH a day for 4 chunky size frags and JF 8 frag seeds. Does that sound right? I am using for my tank (about 90 Gal total volume) 13ml of Red Sea Foundation part B a day to hold in the 8.5-8.6 range. Once my Cal drops below 450 I will start to add part A.
Thanks
Tom