Reef aquarium parameters

[Wicked Reef]

What do you guys think about my parameters?

PH 8.00
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate 0 ppm
Ammonia 0.12
Alkalinity 8.7 dkh
Phosphate 0.25
Salinity 1.026
Temperature 79.7

Phosphate was a little high, but I think it might be because I’m overfeeding.

I had a hard time reading calcium.
Don’t know if I was doing it wrong. It was going over 500. (might go to my local aquarium shop and ask them to test for calcium and do a water change this weekend.)

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

What kind of test kits are you using!

 

[Wicked Reef]

Hanna for ammonia and alkalinity

Imagitarium for phosphate

API for PH, Nitrate, Nitrite,

 

[Wicked Reef]

Everything looks healthy, I did stop dosing all-off-reef because my calcium was kind of high

 

[FindingNem0]

Nice looking tank.


How old is it and how much AFR was being dosed?

 

[Wicked Reef]

Thank you!

This tank has been running now for about three months, but everything was from my old smaller tank that was up for about one year.

I was dosing 2.5 ML per day

It’s a 40 gallon all in one with a HOB 2.5 gallon refugium tank (cheato)

 

[FindingNem0]

The yellow hammer and torch looks nice.

Should try get your nitrate up before algae takes over.

High Phosphate and low nitrate is very bad. Learnt this with my first reefer.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

What do you guys think about my parameters?

PH 8.00
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate 0 ppm
Ammonia 0.12
Alkalinity 8.7 dkh
Phosphate 0.25
Salinity 1.026
Temperature 79.7

Phosphate was a little high, but I think it might be because I’m overfeeding.

I had a hard time reading calcium.
Don’t know if I was doing it wrong. It was going over 500. (might go to my local aquarium shop and ask them to test for calcium and do a water change this weekend.)

Your Parameters look good, other than your nitrates being low.

 

[Dburr1014]

I think your parameters look just fine where they are.

It pretty much mirrors my parameters except my temp is 77.

Whenever I tried to raise nitrate, i would get cyano. I tried dosing calcium nitrate and ammonium chloride.
I feed 4x a day so I just let the fish feed ammonium to the coral and don't worry about nitrate anymore.