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So I have a small tank downstairs, 30gallons, sumped. Had an octo hob 100 skimmer. Sump has 200g going through it. Power heads move around 1500-2000 gallons.
I used reef crystals. My perimeters are as follows.
Alk-7.2
Nitrates-20-25ppm
Pho-0
Sal-1.025
Ph-???
Calcium-500
Mag-1450
So last night a couple coral didn’t look that great. Still colorful but had gotten a whiter color too them. I have lots on montis, 4 acros and some random stuff in there.
Last night I decided to try to bring my alk up from 7, so I did a 5g water change, then dosed some soda ash, that brought my alk up to 7.3(only dosed a little to raise it slowly.
However I was getting heavily shocked last night. Got zapped a good 5-6 times. So I started standing on some milk crate.
A couple days ago I was cleaning my pumps and found one circulation pump the wire was torn and had exposed copper(partly why I ended up doing a water change the following day).
I have 2 cleaner shrimp, and one damsel in the tank. Shrimp are acting normal. Tank perimeter have been pretty stable for the last few months. Only think is I did recently IS bring the salinity up from 1.023-1.025(had slowly dropped over the last 2 months).
I can home and it looks like nothing will survive. Should I do a massive water change? Or will that make things worse?
I used reef crystals. My perimeters are as follows.
Alk-7.2
Nitrates-20-25ppm
Pho-0
Sal-1.025
Ph-???
Calcium-500
Mag-1450
So last night a couple coral didn’t look that great. Still colorful but had gotten a whiter color too them. I have lots on montis, 4 acros and some random stuff in there.
Last night I decided to try to bring my alk up from 7, so I did a 5g water change, then dosed some soda ash, that brought my alk up to 7.3(only dosed a little to raise it slowly.
However I was getting heavily shocked last night. Got zapped a good 5-6 times. So I started standing on some milk crate.
A couple days ago I was cleaning my pumps and found one circulation pump the wire was torn and had exposed copper(partly why I ended up doing a water change the following day).
I have 2 cleaner shrimp, and one damsel in the tank. Shrimp are acting normal. Tank perimeter have been pretty stable for the last few months. Only think is I did recently IS bring the salinity up from 1.023-1.025(had slowly dropped over the last 2 months).
I can home and it looks like nothing will survive. Should I do a massive water change? Or will that make things worse?