Is my tank stable?

Jakepen · Jul 22, 2016

Tank is four months old, supports a good amount of lps and coralline coming in strong. My paramaters today were; Alk 8.5 dkh, calcium 440 magnesium 1400. This was before I dosed. My tank consumes 3 dkh per day, I dose twice daily. So at 5am my tank is at 8.5dkh, I dose it to 10. Then at 5pm, my tank is back to 8.5, so I bring it back to 10. I dose equal part calcium. All my coral is thriving, and I can see growth Almost daily. I know a 1.5 swing is a bit much, but my corals don't mind. I want to know if I can support sps. Any thoughts?

Jaxon · Jul 22, 2016

Nice looking setup

Jakepen · Jul 23, 2016

Jaxon said:
Nice looking setup

Thank you!

Seadragon1 · Jul 23, 2016

I agree it's beautiful

SeaDweller · Jul 24, 2016

Here's my thought.

I've been hand dosing for years. Once a day. In the morning. For my current tank I was dosing 300 mls of both in the am before work and it probably brought my dKh from 8.5 to 10-11+? And by night falls to 8.5 again. I then got a dosing pump but was too lazy to set it up until weeks later. The dosing pump keeps everything stable (using Ca reactor instead) and I keep it as a back up just in case.

My tank is sps dominated. So although I didn't see any ill effects doing what I did for years, the stability is better peace of mind and what acros and sps would like to experience day to day. You'll see them thrive and take off if there is stability, and in the sps game stability is king.