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Hello everyone,
I live that the hobby has gotten so social. Brief background: Have been out of the hobby just over 10 years. Had F/O for 5 years. Kept getting moved around for work every year or so and sold my fish and setup. Im firmly planted now and dove into a reef tabk. I just aet her up during our "quarantine." Tank has been up and running for 5 days. I have no fish and havent cycled. First clown on the way. Tank was stable @ 11 ALK and 8.3 PH the first day and started dropp off as expected considering the tanks in my mancave (a semi above ground basement.) I began dosing kalk in small amounts in ATO to buffer. PH was stable for a few days at 8.1- 8.2 but my ALK started to drop from 11 to 9.1. I thought I was overdosing the kalk and figured my CAL would b crazy high causing the low ALK but multiple test kits revealed i was low @ 400. No nitrifying bacteria added yet. With my first fish on the way I dont want to stress him with crazy fluxuating perameters. Could dosing the kalk in ATO caused this? Im doing a 30% water change in the am to hopefully dilute any problems I caused. Should I let the PH fall and settle w/o buffering to see where it stabilizes? I kno plenty of people whose tanks are on the lower end like 7.9 and 8.0 and their fish do fine granted corals get stunted. Anyone have any ideas?
RedSea E-260
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
PH 8.1
ALK 8
SG 1.024
CAL 400
4 stage cyclone RODI
RedSea Coral Salt Pro
I live that the hobby has gotten so social. Brief background: Have been out of the hobby just over 10 years. Had F/O for 5 years. Kept getting moved around for work every year or so and sold my fish and setup. Im firmly planted now and dove into a reef tabk. I just aet her up during our "quarantine." Tank has been up and running for 5 days. I have no fish and havent cycled. First clown on the way. Tank was stable @ 11 ALK and 8.3 PH the first day and started dropp off as expected considering the tanks in my mancave (a semi above ground basement.) I began dosing kalk in small amounts in ATO to buffer. PH was stable for a few days at 8.1- 8.2 but my ALK started to drop from 11 to 9.1. I thought I was overdosing the kalk and figured my CAL would b crazy high causing the low ALK but multiple test kits revealed i was low @ 400. No nitrifying bacteria added yet. With my first fish on the way I dont want to stress him with crazy fluxuating perameters. Could dosing the kalk in ATO caused this? Im doing a 30% water change in the am to hopefully dilute any problems I caused. Should I let the PH fall and settle w/o buffering to see where it stabilizes? I kno plenty of people whose tanks are on the lower end like 7.9 and 8.0 and their fish do fine granted corals get stunted. Anyone have any ideas?
RedSea E-260
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
PH 8.1
ALK 8
SG 1.024
CAL 400
4 stage cyclone RODI
RedSea Coral Salt Pro