Hey guys,
So I'm trying to figure out this dosing.
●I started dosing kalk way to earlier with just a few soft corals. That was short lived. ●But then when I got a few lps I started dosing afr. But my alk kept dropping and I was supplementing with soda ash. It was taking large amounts of AFR and alk to maintain #'s and eventually my tank clouded up with precipitate.
●So I chilled out on that and everything cleared up.
●Then I figured 2 part would be best because since Alf wasn't full fulfilling the alk needs.
●Started dosing alk to maintain via dos and hand dosing cal once or twice as needed.
It took 28ml of soda ash a day to maintain levels and I only had a few lps and a birdnestand Monti cap. So I figured I was already overdosing. It wasn't until I tried to vacuum the sand and found a ton of "concrete " that I decided to pullback and do some research.
I read a few answers from previous q's and took the advice to stop dosing for a week, shut of co2 scrubber to lower pH a little and start back slowly while dosing alk and cal equally.
●alk dropped to 6.6 and started dosing 5ml equally. Then raised it to 7ml.
●But then cal got above 450 so now I'm just dosing alk alone. Which kind of goes against everything I've been ready.im keeping levels stable like this but I'm concerned about precipitate. Or whether I'm even dosing correctly.
So I guess my question is whether I'm going about this correctly or will I eventually end up dosing large amounts of alk and cause precipitate problems again. Thank you for any I put. Sorry about the lengthy question
So I'm trying to figure out this dosing.
●I started dosing kalk way to earlier with just a few soft corals. That was short lived. ●But then when I got a few lps I started dosing afr. But my alk kept dropping and I was supplementing with soda ash. It was taking large amounts of AFR and alk to maintain #'s and eventually my tank clouded up with precipitate.
●So I chilled out on that and everything cleared up.
●Then I figured 2 part would be best because since Alf wasn't full fulfilling the alk needs.
●Started dosing alk to maintain via dos and hand dosing cal once or twice as needed.
It took 28ml of soda ash a day to maintain levels and I only had a few lps and a birdnestand Monti cap. So I figured I was already overdosing. It wasn't until I tried to vacuum the sand and found a ton of "concrete " that I decided to pullback and do some research.
I read a few answers from previous q's and took the advice to stop dosing for a week, shut of co2 scrubber to lower pH a little and start back slowly while dosing alk and cal equally.
●alk dropped to 6.6 and started dosing 5ml equally. Then raised it to 7ml.
●But then cal got above 450 so now I'm just dosing alk alone. Which kind of goes against everything I've been ready.im keeping levels stable like this but I'm concerned about precipitate. Or whether I'm even dosing correctly.
So I guess my question is whether I'm going about this correctly or will I eventually end up dosing large amounts of alk and cause precipitate problems again. Thank you for any I put. Sorry about the lengthy question