Hello,
I have a 34 gallon tank and thats been running for nearly 3 months now. I have a lot of softies and LPS so I am taking the extra measures to keep my parameters in check. I measured my calcium and it was 410 yesterday (my Alk is 10.3 at this point) and added enough Red Sea Foundation Calcium to get it to 420 based on today's measurement. I added more supplement to get it to 430, left and came back to my Frogspawn looking a bit more shriveled (all the other LPS look fine). I checked my alk and it dropped to 9.4!
I was reading the manual on the Red Sea Bottle and it said no increments of 20ppm to reduce stress in corals, since I was doing only 10ppm I thought I was in the clear
So does adding calcium drop Alk? How should I be distributing my calcium dosage?
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I did not take an Alk measurement when I measured at 420.
I have a 34 gallon tank and thats been running for nearly 3 months now. I have a lot of softies and LPS so I am taking the extra measures to keep my parameters in check. I measured my calcium and it was 410 yesterday (my Alk is 10.3 at this point) and added enough Red Sea Foundation Calcium to get it to 420 based on today's measurement. I added more supplement to get it to 430, left and came back to my Frogspawn looking a bit more shriveled (all the other LPS look fine). I checked my alk and it dropped to 9.4!
I was reading the manual on the Red Sea Bottle and it said no increments of 20ppm to reduce stress in corals, since I was doing only 10ppm I thought I was in the clear
So does adding calcium drop Alk? How should I be distributing my calcium dosage?
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I did not take an Alk measurement when I measured at 420.