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BTW, what what your dosing like up through and after the move? I ask because I just noticed the high number of stony frags in the system from the "before" photos. A healthy load like that is bound to make a big impression on alkalinity once they become established. (One reason I don't favor lower alk numbers like yours - not enough "extra" or safety in the system to cover events like this...and others...IMO.)
-Matt
My dosing was done with a doser and I kept it online and running right before the tank move and right after the tank move. Of course there was a slight fluctuation in ALK when the tank moved but I continued dosing right away, so it couldn't have gone too low. One thing that is interesting is that my dosing had to be upped from about 24ml/day to about 34 ml/day over the span of the first month because the old amount wasn't keeping up. I find it hard to believe that the corals were taking up that much alkalinity in their stressed state of browning and bleaching so I'm assuming that lots of precipitation was occuring and taken out by the skimmer.