Back on the wagon after nearly a decade off and very excited to play with all these new gadgets. Now that it's so easy to test your alk multiple times a day I'm seeing quite the patterns within my daily alk consumption, and I'm curious as to what other folks are experiencing.
While I'm not surprised that there is a change in alk consumption when the lights are on vs off, I am surprised at the size of the change. I'm seeing nearly 10x the usage during my "peak" lighting period (6pm-12am) running my reactor nearly 30mins every hour and still having a slight decline, down to running it around 3 minutes every hour between 12am-6am and seeing an excess of alk. 6am-6pm is pretty flat seems more like a "ramp" up period, although it's also when my lights are at their brightest around mid day.
My tank is fairly new still (well relative to my old systems) but stable, with around 20 or so small acro frags and a couple small-medium sps.
What are your experiences?
While I'm not surprised that there is a change in alk consumption when the lights are on vs off, I am surprised at the size of the change. I'm seeing nearly 10x the usage during my "peak" lighting period (6pm-12am) running my reactor nearly 30mins every hour and still having a slight decline, down to running it around 3 minutes every hour between 12am-6am and seeing an excess of alk. 6am-6pm is pretty flat seems more like a "ramp" up period, although it's also when my lights are at their brightest around mid day.
My tank is fairly new still (well relative to my old systems) but stable, with around 20 or so small acro frags and a couple small-medium sps.
What are your experiences?