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Hello,
I've been running a 110 gallon for a year and 2 months now. An upgrade from a 34 gallon which a ran for over 5 years. I did get a little lazy with the maintenance after I had lost almost all but 2 fishes and all but 2 corals. I'm trying to get things going again and stay on top of it. so I have been doing 26to28 gallons of water change per week for the last 4-5 weeks to try and get phosphates to a good level. Which as of yesterday were at 0.04 compared to the day before the water change 0.06.
Calcium is now 403 which is good the day before WC it was 454.
Alkalinity is in the low 5s I can't remember if it was 5.3 or 5.6 yesterday, but the day before WC it was 5.3 so definitely need to bring it up. I'm thinking be between 8-12.
I am not dosing anything and I was not doing any testing prior.
My hammerhead & toadstool leather corals do not look happy, see attached picture, don't know if they got use to a dirty tank, lol.
So I've used all for reef in the previous tank (34g) and was thinking of using that in this one.
If I do, will it also increase the calcium?
I use Tropic Marin Pro-reef salt at 1.025.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
I've been running a 110 gallon for a year and 2 months now. An upgrade from a 34 gallon which a ran for over 5 years. I did get a little lazy with the maintenance after I had lost almost all but 2 fishes and all but 2 corals. I'm trying to get things going again and stay on top of it. so I have been doing 26to28 gallons of water change per week for the last 4-5 weeks to try and get phosphates to a good level. Which as of yesterday were at 0.04 compared to the day before the water change 0.06.
Calcium is now 403 which is good the day before WC it was 454.
Alkalinity is in the low 5s I can't remember if it was 5.3 or 5.6 yesterday, but the day before WC it was 5.3 so definitely need to bring it up. I'm thinking be between 8-12.
I am not dosing anything and I was not doing any testing prior.
My hammerhead & toadstool leather corals do not look happy, see attached picture, don't know if they got use to a dirty tank, lol.
So I've used all for reef in the previous tank (34g) and was thinking of using that in this one.
If I do, will it also increase the calcium?
I use Tropic Marin Pro-reef salt at 1.025.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,