Im brand new to this, about 6 months in. When I added corals at the 4ish month mark my lfs suggested AFR. I started dosing 10ml/ 24 hr interval. It was like. 1ml every 14 mins or something. Cal and Mag stayed stable but Alk was dropping. So they suggested soda ash. I started dosing a 24 hr intervals after finding my daily consumption (13.2ml of soda ash per day) and correcting alk from 6.8 to 8. I find that my alk is still diminishing quicker than I am dosing. I'm up to 17ml of AFR and 14 mL of soda ash and my alk is still dropping. I fear that it's just precipitating, just from what I've read, but I really don't know what the signs are. There no cloud or white crystal accumulation that I can see. Am I going about this wrong? Should I just move to 2 part and trace elements? Is it safe to just dose more soda ash or should I stop dosing and try to find out my daily consumption again and restart the process?
I've been reading post for a week straight but I'm gun shy when it comes to dumping doses. I really appreciate any advice and insight. TIA
My system:
*Max e170 w/ trigger crystal 18 sump- I estimate 55 gallons with sump minus rock and sand.
*Dos and Tridant
Parameters
*Alk 7.2
*Cal 410-420
*Mag 1443
*Ph 7.92
*salt 33.9
* No3 6.7
*po4 .01
Livestock
* paired clowns, ywg&pistol pair, royal gamma, and cleaner shrimp.
* 2 hermis and couple of snails
*3 zoa frags, sinulara frag, favia frag, acan frag, and birdnest frag.
* no coralline yet
I've been reading post for a week straight but I'm gun shy when it comes to dumping doses. I really appreciate any advice and insight. TIA
My system:
*Max e170 w/ trigger crystal 18 sump- I estimate 55 gallons with sump minus rock and sand.
*Dos and Tridant
Parameters
*Alk 7.2
*Cal 410-420
*Mag 1443
*Ph 7.92
*salt 33.9
* No3 6.7
*po4 .01
Livestock
* paired clowns, ywg&pistol pair, royal gamma, and cleaner shrimp.
* 2 hermis and couple of snails
*3 zoa frags, sinulara frag, favia frag, acan frag, and birdnest frag.
* no coralline yet