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Temp 79
Sg 1.026
Dkh 8.5
Cal 440
Mg 1430
No3 10ppm
Po4 (don’t know, don’t care)
Sg 1.026
Dkh 8.5
Cal 440
Mg 1430
No3 10ppm
Po4 (don’t know, don’t care)
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I thought about never needing to know phosphates, in 13 years of keeping reefs I hadn't had an issue until keeping sps. I don't know if it coincides with the sps and no detectable phosphates for them dying?Temp 79
Sg 1.026
Dkh 8.5
Cal 440
Mg 1430
No3 10ppm
Po4 (don’t know, don’t care)
Hey Iván! How’s that pico? Any recent pictures?PO4 0.01 — Hanna ULR- feeding more and trying to raise it a little bit
NO3 2-3 — API indetectable and Salifert -feeding more and adding potasium nitrate
pH 8.1 night 8.4 day — i have kalk in the ATO
Alk 8.4/8.6 — dose kh every 2 hours, my tank consumes 2.1 dkh daily
Ca 411 — Hanna
Mg 1280 — Salifert
Some pics, but haven´t uploaded the new ones. It´s doing ok! My nutrients kind of fell, so i´m feeding corals every other day and dosing potassium nitrate, i´m currently cycling the frag tank in order to have more real estate and i´ve been toying with the idea of fragging everything in the pico reef and start an acro bonsai aquaescape...lol!Hey Iván! How’s that pico? Any recent pictures?
I thought about never needing to know phosphates, in 13 years of keeping reefs I hadn't had an issue until keeping sps. I don't know if it coincides with the sps and no detectable phosphates for them dying?
I had been doing very minimal water changes and removed my skimmer as it had broken anyway, with the skimmer removed the sps looked excellent and was growing like mad and I had to frag it regularly which from selling them I bought another tank. I even brought a doser to keep the alk stable as it was using 1.5 dkh per day and the doser kept it level at 7.7 then after about 6 months of great growth, the alk consumption dropped and growth stopped then colours went. I then got cyano then got rid of that and now a little dino, all sps are gone and my lps just look meh.When I kept Sps, I ran an ats and later just chaeto. I was honestly more concerned with keeping nitrates in the tank and always assumed phosphates were extremely low as long as the algae in the sump was growing and both are consumed in ratio to each other. One thing that I noticed between keeping lps & softies vs. sps is the extreme sensitivity of sps to alkalinity changes. I went through the same teething issues as many people keeping sps and only started having success after reducing water change amounts and frequency. Alk swings are the #1 killer of sps with extremely low No3/Po4 in second place.
I had been doing very minimal water changes and removed my skimmer as it had broken anyway, with the skimmer removed the sps looked excellent and was growing like mad and I had to frag it regularly which from selling them I bought another tank. I even brought a doser to keep the alk stable as it was using 1.5 dkh per day and the doser kept it level at 7.7 then after about 6 months of great growth, the alk consumption dropped and growth stopped then colours went. I then got cyano then got rid of that and now a little dino, all sps are gone and my lps just look meh.
Alk 6.6-7.2- test weekly
Phosphates .01-.03 - test monthly
Calc - 410-420 test monthly
Ph - no clue, never tested before
Nitrates - 5-25ppm test monthly
Tank started cycle in August 2018, first coral frags started in October 2018
Here is current tank