My tank is 75 gallons and 11 months old. It has about 20 corals, soft and LPS. Most are having a hard time, skeletons are showing and some polyps even leave the frags.
I’ve had a hard time with stability for about 6 months because of a faulty mag test. I kept dosing magnesium when I didn’t need to. When I realized it, my levels were at 1640 ppm or so. Since then I’ve been slowly decreasing mag levels.
I’ve also had moderate dinos for about 5 months. They have gone away 3-4 weeks ago after dosing silicate for 4-6 weeks, a 3 day blackout, dosing Microbacter 7, phyto and raising nitrates and phosphates that had bottomed out.
Now it seems my alkalinity is going down a little bit. I use Red Sea blue bucket and alkalinity at 35 ppt is 7.8 to 8.2. My alkalinity is 7.6 and salinity is about 1.0256.
I want to avoid another event that will further damage the corals. Should I raise my alkalinity a little bit ? To 8.4 ppm maybe ?
Here are my current parameters :
alk : 7.6
mag : 1520
cal : 445 ppm
nitrates : 12 ppm
phosphates : close to 0
Thank you !
I’ve had a hard time with stability for about 6 months because of a faulty mag test. I kept dosing magnesium when I didn’t need to. When I realized it, my levels were at 1640 ppm or so. Since then I’ve been slowly decreasing mag levels.
I’ve also had moderate dinos for about 5 months. They have gone away 3-4 weeks ago after dosing silicate for 4-6 weeks, a 3 day blackout, dosing Microbacter 7, phyto and raising nitrates and phosphates that had bottomed out.
Now it seems my alkalinity is going down a little bit. I use Red Sea blue bucket and alkalinity at 35 ppt is 7.8 to 8.2. My alkalinity is 7.6 and salinity is about 1.0256.
I want to avoid another event that will further damage the corals. Should I raise my alkalinity a little bit ? To 8.4 ppm maybe ?
Here are my current parameters :
alk : 7.6
mag : 1520
cal : 445 ppm
nitrates : 12 ppm
phosphates : close to 0
Thank you !