Hi Everyone
I'm new here, and my tank is new as well. Tank size is 130 liters, using a Zetlight 1201, no skimmer, just mechanical filtering..... Tank has been running for 2 months, started using cycled water and some live rock
Currently have about 10 zoa's in, (1 which is not doing great, the others all seem perfectly happy)
2 hammer (seems very happy)
2 small galaxy torches (doing good)
And a red and green Goni (not doing so great)
2 Clowns
1 Blue wrasse
1 Blue streak Goby
1 Molly
1 Mandarin Dragonette (which eats pellets, but I feed him some pods every now and then as well)
I took the time to test my water parameters everyday for the last week
Calcium is around 400
Phosphate a bit high at 0.5
Nitrites is 0
Magnesium hovers between 1200 and 1380 (I'm dosing ocean six reef complete and ocean six magnesium daily)
But my alkalinity stays high around 13.7 to 14.1
I tried reducing dosage, did a water change...
Its not a big expensive setup, it was a gift to my 5 year old son, he likes the fish, I enjoy the corals...
I'm just worried about the alk being so high (even though its stable) and how to get it down without causing an alk swing...
I am considering ditching ocean six products all together and switching over to red sea...
Any suggestions?
I'm new here, and my tank is new as well. Tank size is 130 liters, using a Zetlight 1201, no skimmer, just mechanical filtering..... Tank has been running for 2 months, started using cycled water and some live rock
Currently have about 10 zoa's in, (1 which is not doing great, the others all seem perfectly happy)
2 hammer (seems very happy)
2 small galaxy torches (doing good)
And a red and green Goni (not doing so great)
2 Clowns
1 Blue wrasse
1 Blue streak Goby
1 Molly
1 Mandarin Dragonette (which eats pellets, but I feed him some pods every now and then as well)
I took the time to test my water parameters everyday for the last week
Calcium is around 400
Phosphate a bit high at 0.5
Nitrites is 0
Magnesium hovers between 1200 and 1380 (I'm dosing ocean six reef complete and ocean six magnesium daily)
But my alkalinity stays high around 13.7 to 14.1
I tried reducing dosage, did a water change...
Its not a big expensive setup, it was a gift to my 5 year old son, he likes the fish, I enjoy the corals...
I'm just worried about the alk being so high (even though its stable) and how to get it down without causing an alk swing...
I am considering ditching ocean six products all together and switching over to red sea...
Any suggestions?