Please help! Way low alkalinity.

[dpfish]

I did some work on my tank equipment about a week ago and must not have got the tube pushed all the way into my doser. I checked alk today and got 3.5 with my hana. Checked it twice. I dose All 4 Reef. I have a 120 gallon display and a 80 gallon frag tank on the same system with a bunch of coral. It went about a week with no A4R. It typically uses 205 ml a day. I have a mixed reef with a lot of high end coral. Looking for advice on how to best bring it back up.

 

[dpfish]

I also just brought down a lot of corals to add to the tank today. They are still in the bags. I tested the water from them at 7.4 wondering how to get them in the tank? I might need to bring them to a friend's house until I get mine back up

 

[dloberry]

If you have the option to take them to a friends I would do that to be safe. You will need to bring the alk up slowly. Less than 1ppm per day. Any more will shock them. How are they looking? Closed up? Any polyps bail out?

 

[dpfish]

Everything works fine. Only reason I checked it was to compare it to the water with my new incoming coral.

 

[dloberry]

If everything looks good you should be okay to being alk up slowly. But would not shock your other coral by putting them in a tank you know has a low alk. Hope all works out for you

 

[dpfish]

I guess that's not totally true. I have had a couple of blastos lose a few polyp.