Low alkalinity consumption

[ChrisQ0904]

What would cause a really low/no alkalinity consumption?

I have an 80g system that is sps dominate and I have slowly been needing to decrease my ALK and increase my CA and MG. My current daily dosage are as follows:

CA - 40ml
MG - 40ml
ALK - 3ml

Paarameters as of today"

 

[kacrocorals581]

Have your acros stopped growing or slowed?

 

[ChrisQ0904]

They slowed down in growth, but what do you think is causing it?

 

[kacrocorals581]

To many different possible things to list , changing all the bulbs at once can shock corals and make them stop growing.

 

[ChrisQ0904]

To many different possible things to list , changing all the bulbs at once can shock corals and make them stop growing.

What about the reflectors? My bulbs are 7months old or so but I did change all my reflectors a few weeks ago

 

[kacrocorals581]

It's possible I'm pretty sure I've sneezed next to my tanks before and they stopped growing.

 

[rovster]

First check your test kit or checker. If that is ok anything else can cause a stall....change in lighting change in any parameter, stirring something up, not sure sneezing would cause it but I guess it's possible!


In my own tank I've seen stalls when I started carbon dosing, changed gfo, changed lighting, significant alk spike or dip, heavy fragging, bottoming out nutrients.

 

[JPergamo]

First check your test kit or checker. If that is ok anything else can cause a stall....change in lighting change in any parameter, stirring something up, not sure sneezing would cause it but I guess it's possible!


In my own tank I've seen stalls when I started carbon dosing, changed gfo, changed lighting, significant alk spike or dip, heavy fragging, bottoming out nutrients.

Was perusing Google and stumbled onto this post, wanted to see if there was any content about alk consumption slowing down after a fragging day. Ive noticed mine does for a few days after I chop and snip. Thanks for the post from a few years ago