Hi All,
I have an 18 month old cade 1200 512 liter (135 gallon mixed reef.)
Up until now I have maintained stable parameters (Below)
Calc - 440
Mag - 1400
PH - 8.4
Alk - 8.5
Temp - 26
Sal - 34ppt
No3 - 10ppm
Po4 - 0.10ppm
I dose red sea foundation A,B & C products.
Calc - 15ml per day
Alk - 20ml per day
Mag - 25ml per day
I test regularly and adjust them as needed as the corals grow or add more etc.
My alkalinity has crashed to 5.8 in a couple of days, I decided to double up the red sea foundation B dosing (KH/ALK)
I was dosing 20ml per day and uped it to 40ml
There has been minimal changes in the alkalinity level over a couple of weeks i was measuring it between 6 and 6.5dkh
I decided to up the dosing to 60ml and after a couple more weeks i am still measuring it to be around 6dkh
I do weekly 20% water chances with redseas coral salt pro mixed to 34ppt
The biggest change i have noticed on the corals is not really any growth over the last month or 2 and the gonipora has closed up. However I have fairly recently diped them in revive coral cleaner as they had some kind of flatworm on them.
I am looking for advice from you experienced reefers on suggestions to proceed. Do i just keep upping the KH dosing?
I keep zoas, hammers, torchs, frogspawn, couple of small leathers, scollys, trachys, duncan, a bubble tip nem, a few small SPS and some others I have forgotten the names of.
Edit: I use Hannah checkers for NO3, KH, Po4 and redsea for Mag and Calc
Edit (added No3 and Po4 to parameters)
I have an 18 month old cade 1200 512 liter (135 gallon mixed reef.)
Up until now I have maintained stable parameters (Below)
Calc - 440
Mag - 1400
PH - 8.4
Alk - 8.5
Temp - 26
Sal - 34ppt
No3 - 10ppm
Po4 - 0.10ppm
I dose red sea foundation A,B & C products.
Calc - 15ml per day
Alk - 20ml per day
Mag - 25ml per day
I test regularly and adjust them as needed as the corals grow or add more etc.
My alkalinity has crashed to 5.8 in a couple of days, I decided to double up the red sea foundation B dosing (KH/ALK)
I was dosing 20ml per day and uped it to 40ml
There has been minimal changes in the alkalinity level over a couple of weeks i was measuring it between 6 and 6.5dkh
I decided to up the dosing to 60ml and after a couple more weeks i am still measuring it to be around 6dkh
I do weekly 20% water chances with redseas coral salt pro mixed to 34ppt
The biggest change i have noticed on the corals is not really any growth over the last month or 2 and the gonipora has closed up. However I have fairly recently diped them in revive coral cleaner as they had some kind of flatworm on them.
I am looking for advice from you experienced reefers on suggestions to proceed. Do i just keep upping the KH dosing?
I keep zoas, hammers, torchs, frogspawn, couple of small leathers, scollys, trachys, duncan, a bubble tip nem, a few small SPS and some others I have forgotten the names of.
Edit: I use Hannah checkers for NO3, KH, Po4 and redsea for Mag and Calc
Edit (added No3 and Po4 to parameters)
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