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Following my last 10% water change on 3/19, some of my corals looked a little unhappy for a few days. So I decided to discontinue changes for a while and just see what happened.
Since then my tank has looked better than ever. Corals and nems are happy and growing. My PO4/NO3 has always run around .5/50, so I've been keeping a close eye on that. But otherwise I'm just planning to proceed based solely on results and not chase numbers.
Here are my test results since then:
I noticed the alk, mag and calcium drops, so I'm dosing Reef Fusion and Tech-M to deal with that. I just need to get a better feel for how much at this point to use. I'm also dosing Coral Vite to replace trace elements.
I think the salinity drop was due primarily to an ATO mishap I had, plus the salt loss due to my skimmer. I'm slowly adding some salt via ATO to bring that back up to 1.026. That should also help reintroduce some trace elements.
Any thoughts, suggestions, well wishes or curses?
Since then my tank has looked better than ever. Corals and nems are happy and growing. My PO4/NO3 has always run around .5/50, so I've been keeping a close eye on that. But otherwise I'm just planning to proceed based solely on results and not chase numbers.
Here are my test results since then:
I noticed the alk, mag and calcium drops, so I'm dosing Reef Fusion and Tech-M to deal with that. I just need to get a better feel for how much at this point to use. I'm also dosing Coral Vite to replace trace elements.
I think the salinity drop was due primarily to an ATO mishap I had, plus the salt loss due to my skimmer. I'm slowly adding some salt via ATO to bring that back up to 1.026. That should also help reintroduce some trace elements.
Any thoughts, suggestions, well wishes or curses?