Evening all

[Bryant Day]

I am looking for people with experience with Red Sea NoPox, Foundation, Reef energy, and color. I have been using NoPox for about 6 weeks. I have my nitrate and phosphate under control (1ppm), I have been using foundation, reef energy, and color for about two weeks. My tank is fish + LPS. My chemistry is Ph 7.9 night (was low 7.4 day time), Alk is 8.4, (Red Sea recommends in the 12s) Calcium 410 (red sea likes 440), ammonia 0, nitrite 0, salinity 1.026 - 1.024 (starts out at 1.026, by end of week with RO/DI auto top off is down to 1.025. Was just recommended to take to 1.024 to try to drive my Ph up and Mg down. Mg in the tank is 1600, new batch of salt water is 1340.

I imported a new light profile for my radions, and now I have a green algae bloom--even with dosing NoPox.

Looking for advice.

Thanks

 

[Flyingbulldog]

How often do you feed your fish/corals by how much? 1ppm for Phosphate is high you want it 0.2-0.6. Nitrate on the other hand is a different story, since you have lps tank, you can have nitrates between 5-10ppm

 

[Bryant Day]

How often do you feed your fish/corals by how much? 1ppm for Phosphate is high you want it 0.2-0.6. Nitrate on the other hand is a different story, since you have lps tank, you can have nitrates between 5-10ppm

Thanks for the reply. Nitrate is 1 ppm, Phosphate is 0 on hanna checker and 0.03 on Red Sea test. I feed the fish (four: lemon peel, Foxface, two x golden nugget) once daily sinker pellets, and I put clip in green algae for the Fox every day. 1 day / week I sub frozen food. I feed the corals 2 x per week.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Did you overdose a magnesium supplement? If not, the 1600 ppm might be testing error. Many people have issues with the Red Sea kit.

I would not drop the salinity. It will drop everything, and isn't a good solution to elevated magnesium any way.

 

[ALs FLorida Corals]

My red Sea also gives me over 1600 re a ding with my red Sea water

 

[Bryant Day]

Did you overdose a magnesium supplement? If not, the 1600 ppm might be testing error. Many people have issues with the Red Sea kit.

I would not drop the salinity. It will drop everything, and isn't a good solution to elevated magnesium any way.

Randy thanks for jumping in. I had quantum reefs test the water as well we both got the same results. The fresh salt water I made was right where it was supposed to be. The water in the tank 1600. I have never dosed magnesium.

with the salinity at 1.024 Ph has risen to 7.9 day time, Alk 9.0, but Mag is still at 1600. I have no idea what is causing it. All the other parameters seem to be fine.

 

[Bryant Day]

Randy the only dosing I have done is NoPox for about 6 weeks now, and two weeks ago started the Reef energy, daily, Reef Foundation once per week, and same for reef colors.

 

[Flyingbulldog]

It could just be an imbalance of your phospate and nitrate. Sometimes when phosphate reads zero and you have algae, it means that the algae is eating of your phosphate and that is why it's 0.

 

[Bryant Day]

It could just be an imbalance of your phospate and nitrate. Sometimes when phosphate reads zero and you have algae, it means that the algae is eating of your phosphate and that is why it's 0.

OK, so what do I do?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

If it really is 1600 ppm, it must have come from the salt mix (assuming you are not topping off with tap water).

The only way to reduce it is to do water changes with a lower magnesium salt mix. I would just stick to regular water changes. it's not an emergency.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

And, of course, don't use the Reef Foundation magnesium supplement.