Help please. Emergency!

fishguy242 · May 1, 2020

would take hand and wave off build up off rocks and corals,i know this will cloud up a little but will help corals n rock

boacvh · May 1, 2020

Update: 2nd emergency WC finished. Looking much better. All my rocks are white but I'll worry about scrubbing those later.
Alk is 9.5 after the WCs. Ph still 8.2. I usually keep my tank 8 to 8.5.
Will prepare some more water and perform some smaller water changes this weekend.
Again, eternally grateful for the urgent help to all of you.

ScottB · May 1, 2020

I butt dialed a liter of ALK once. Hit about 18dkh and the only thing I lost was a blasto. All my SPS survived. No PE for a while but WC was all I did to correct.

boacvh · May 1, 2020

ScottB said:
I butt dialed a liter of ALK once. Hit about 18dkh and the only thing I lost was a blasto. All my SPS survived. No PE for a while but WC was all I did to correct.

Hopefully I don't lose much either. !

WiscoFishNut · May 1, 2020

Hope everything pulls through ok! Looks like you got a very timely assist!

NewGoby · May 1, 2020

boacvh said:
Update: 2nd emergency WC finished. Looking much better. All my rocks are white but I'll worry about scrubbing those later.
Alk is 9.5 after the WCs. Ph still 8.2. I usually keep my tank 8 to 8.5.
Will prepare some more water and perform some smaller water changes this weekend.
Again, eternally grateful for the urgent help to all of you.

Honestly, Alk @ 9.5 is fine - just let it drop - may rise a bit though if you scrub / wave the white stuff off the rocks as that's also Alk that hasn't mixed with the water properly

boacvh · May 1, 2020

NewGoby said:
Honestly, Alk @ 9.5 is fine - just let it drop - may rise a bit though if you scrub / wave the white stuff off the rocks as that's also Alk that hasn't mixed with the water properly

Thanks. Good to know. Will wait to scrub them then.
So far only couple casualties. Two birdnest frags I had just gotten. All other corals actually open now. I guess 55 gallon WC did it. Thank God for the pH alarm on my apex or this would have gone unnoticed. Here is tank now! It has water again instead of milk!

boacvh · May 2, 2020

Final update: everything back to normal. Had a few sps casualties only. For reference, I checked the log and turns out I had dumped exactly 743ml of 2 part into tank with this mistake.

Once again thanks everyone that helped me above.