Water changes will be helpful, but won’t readily solve the issue of lots of excess lanthanum in the water.
I've always taken the conservative approach to crisis.
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Water changes will be helpful, but won’t readily solve the issue of lots of excess lanthanum in the water.
Personally, with the rebound of phosphate that was locked up in the rock, I think you are right.Ok, Sodium Phosphate came in today. Just tested the water to get a baseline before dosing and numbers looks good.
pH: 8.41
Salinity: 33.6 - A little low, will work on slow correction.
Alk: 9.2
Ca: 502 - Hanna Checker so probably high reading, but not crazy out of line if correct.
Nitrate: 12.7
Phosphate: 0.06
Given that I have good measurements on everything except salinity, I'm feeling I should not dose the phosphates. @Randy Holmes-Farley what are your thoughts on this?
Thanks,
-Chris
Yah, the water is really clear now.If the phosphate is on clear water and is accurate at 0.06 ppm, I'd probably not dose phosphate right now, but I'd watch it for a bit.
Yah, the water is really clear now.
I feel like you're putting too much trust into your doser. Might want to reconsider.Ok, tested this morning and Phosphate is at 0.0. Going to mix up a batch of the sodium phosphate and start dosing at 0.1 ppm per day. Planning on splitting into 24 1ml doses so I can slowly add over the course of the day.
Ok, tested this morning and Phosphate is at 0.0. Going to mix up a batch of the sodium phosphate and start dosing at 0.1 ppm per day. Planning on splitting into 24 1ml doses so I can slowly add over the course of the day.
Found out what the root cause was, and it is no longer being used.I feel like you're putting too much trust into your doser. Might want to reconsider.
Glad you did. But I'd still be a bit concerned that a power outage could cause further issues since the wifi strip turning off and on caused it the first time. I believe a number of other folks have had issues with the Jebao doser. To be clear, I love Jebao return pumps and power heads and run them on multiple systems. I am not a Jebao hater; far from it. I have a Jebao doser on the shelf from many years ago that I've been too chicken to use .Found out what the root cause was, and it is no longer being used.
The corals and inverts seemed to be fine and as far as I know, I did not lose any of them. In fact, I added corals the Saturday after the incident and they are fine too.TCoach
did your corals lose any color/lighten/bleach at all or they held fine through the issue?
Running T5's on this tank instead of LEDs. .somehow missed this thread until today. if I could have got in to post #2 I would have said: reduce your overall light power at the current spectrum by -30% right off the top. cloud simulation until you stabilize.
it's the strongest bleach protection trick I know during param insults. you'd be amazed at the % coral loss that is simple, stoppable sunburning
it's a powerful trick because you can run it on a perfectly fine reef tank without harm. no reef on the planet cares if some clouds pass overhead, for a while. used on a reef in distress, you can time it with strong feeding to heal corals quickly from insults in many cases where the bright unadjusted light burns them badly, sometimes unable to recover. if yours made it with no lightening phase then that's great, they have a solid foundation to weather some challenges. nice leadup growth was a strong insulator for them.