Reefer 170 Mistress Upgrade

[beardedman11]

Well, with the alk up at 9.1 yesterday and wanting it to be around 8.5 I asked google(if you haven’t used it to help out with your reef I would highly recommend it) how to lower it back down and get it where I want it. Said it would take about 5-6 days if I left it alone. It then asked if I was doing a water change and told it a 10g today and it already knows I use tropic Marin which has an alk of 7.9 and told me with a 10g water change it would lower it back down to 8.5. It was dead on with that after checking a hour after it came out to be 8.5. I asked the other day how much to dose with having a tsp of kalk in a gallon stirrer how much I should be dosing a day(156ml) if I was dosing 12x and came out to about 12.5ml. So I changed the dosing to 13 and will pick that back up on Saturday.
Stopped by the lfs today to grab a good bottle of rowaphos and went ahead and changed that in the reactor and flushed the reactor into a bucket to rinse it out. I went again with half the recommended so 20g or about 1 TBSP to keep slowly lowering the PO4 so I don’t strip the water to clean to quickly.
Of course while at the store they had a so zoas that’s been on my list to buy so added some godbeast and GMK to my tank. They opened up pretty quick.

 

[beardedman11]

Few photos during the water change. This jawbreaker got stung pretty badly by a hammer that fell next to my box and has slowly recovered. Few zoas: queen strats, mindtricks, mesosphere, and LSOH.

 

[Blitheran]

Well, with the alk up at 9.1 yesterday and wanting it to be around 8.5 I asked google(if you haven’t used it to help out with your reef I would highly recommend it) how to lower it back down and get it where I want it. Said it would take about 5-6 days if I left it alone. It then asked if I was doing a water change and told it a 10g today and it already knows I use tropic Marin which has an alk of 7.9 and told me with a 10g water change it would lower it back down to 8.5. It was dead on with that after checking a hour after it came out to be 8.5. I asked the other day how much to dose with having a tsp of kalk in a gallon stirrer how much I should be dosing a day(156ml) if I was dosing 12x and came out to about 12.5ml. So I changed the dosing to 13 and will pick that back up on Saturday.
Stopped by the lfs today to grab a good bottle of rowaphos and went ahead and changed that in the reactor and flushed the reactor into a bucket to rinse it out. I went again with half the recommended so 20g or about 1 TBSP to keep slowly lowering the PO4 so I don’t strip the water to clean to quickly.
Of course while at the store they had a so zoas that’s been on my list to buy so added some godbeast and GMK to my tank. They opened up pretty quick.

If my levels get out of wack I just dial back my dosing.

My range is 8.5 to 9.5 for alk.

If my alk rises and gets to 9.5. I decrease my dosing and naturally let the corals consume the elements to get back to the proper level.

Just an idea before you spam a water change and shock the system