I will test it tonight at the same time and see where it’s at if for nothing else but curiosity
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I had been using Red Sea, but recently got a Hanna for alk. I was worried about the whole color change deal. Turns out the Hanna matched my Red Sea… but still way easier.
Fritz rpm blue boxwhat salt do you use?
What lights are those? Look pretty dim and not enough coverage. All the corals you named are fast growers.Ninjamyst, for what it’s worth, I have a monti cap near each rear corner of the tank. I have an encrusting fruity pebbles monti on the rear glass and a cyphastrea and another encrusting monti also on rear glass. My devils hand and galaxia are fairly ticked off today but that’s very unusual.
Fritz rpm blue box
Your phosphates are a little high (shouldn’t be over .05) and that usually interferes with calcium absorption.I am in my first year of saltwater. I have a 65 gal AIO and my corals range from mushrooms and zoas to montipora and a frag or two of acropora. I have never dosed anything and corals are doing pretty good but other than a few soft corals and leathers, I am not noticing any real growth. My parameters are pretty stable while using fritz rpm blue box salt.
I just don’t want to fix what is not broken but if I can improve on things I’m all for it. I will include a pic of my parameters as tested last night. Salinity stays at 1.025 but shows 1.024 as of now because I ran out of salt. Working on getting that back up.
Thank you. I actually had to dose phosphate back up. I went on vacation a few weeks ago right after pulling fish to go fallow. I didn’t know how to feed the tank or etc so I had my house sitter some food portions for every other day and so on. When I got home the whole tank was covered in brown hair algae and my phosphate was 0 and nitrates took a dump also. I upped my cuc and things have finally gotten better. I am no longer purposely increasing phosphate by the way. LolYour phosphates are a little high (shouldn’t be over .05) and that usually interferes with calcium absorption.
our parameters and corals are similar and I just started using AllForReef and have notice growth in my montis, but I just added my first acro last week. Good news is, I’ve started seeing polyp extension in my acro, so things seem to be going in the right direction.
good luck!
That’s another reason I thought they should be higher… to match the salt.so alk at around 8-9, you say your tank is around 7.3, if it has stabilised at 7.3 then that is great, just check it’s not constantly slowing dropping.
AI prime 16 hd. I plan to get a third eventually but that’s what came with the tank. Also my schedule is ramping down when I took the picture.What lights are those? Look pretty dim and not enough coverage. All the corals you named are fast growers.
Tried the same thing and ended up with Dinos. In hindsight, I think I’d rather the hair algae…At least I’d have an excuse to add a lawnmower Blenny.Thank you. I actually had to dose phosphate back up. I went on vacation a few weeks ago right after pulling fish to go fallow. I didn’t know how to feed the tank or etc so I had my house sitter some food portions for every other day and so on. When I got home the whole tank was covered in brown hair algae and my phosphate was 0 and nitrates took a dump also. I upped my cuc and things have finally gotten better. I am no longer purposely increasing phosphate by the way. Lol
Thought I’d add.. it’s a Waterbox 65.4 aio. So the height is about 17”. 48” wide and only about 15” deep front to backWhat lights are those? Look pretty dim and not enough coverage. All the corals you named are fast growers.
Doesn’t matter, only really matters if you do an extra large water change say in an emergency, so yeah good for that reason but alk is easily raised or lowered in salt mix so no real need to match the salt, the difference an average water change would make to alk in the tank is minimal.That’s another reason I thought they should be higher… to match the salt.
This is not a hard hobby really, but man is there a lot to know, learn, and frustration that comes along with highs of course.
Last great words of every Reefer right before they screw a lot of things up.I just don’t want to fix what is not broken but if I can improve on things I’m all for it