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Hes using a pro salt which has elevated alk. He wants to match the water change water alk with the tank water alk which will require the above mentioned chemical or muriatic acid.Curious, how do you make new water up and it's too high in alk? I've never tested my wc water, just assumed if the sg was good then it was good to go
Sadly, one F-up in 4 years will kill some nice colony worthy growthUnless one keeps ones tank at the eact parms as the salt you are using, Excactly!!! one has to/should adjust the new water prior to performing a wc. If not then you will always be on that up an down roller coaster of levels. And adding this an that to raise or lower you parms post wc.
Truth be told I was out of my salt.. I only had instant ocean salt which I use for my QT tanks only. So I adjusted the water up to match and screwed it up a bit.(**** happens) once in 4 years is not a bad track record.
Salinity is not the only think one should check before adding water. Alot of info on salts with crazy levels.
This is how I treat my new water prior to adding it. I test it first, adjust it second, then add. It not required, but it makes me fell warm an fuzzy that there is little to no impact on my Dt water.
What happened? Why did I get a monster bloom. Only after the wc? An not when I od the tank hours earlier.I kind know. But dang... I dump 250 mls of nopox in my tank an went from 20 no3 to 0. Another odd fact my phos is at .07 it has not been affected.
Sadly, one F-up in 4 years will kill some nice colony worthy growth
Especially an alk spike.
That extra 250ml of carbon sure sucked your nitrate down though lol