Hello all, this is my first post and I’m new to R2R so please forgive me if I posted at the wrong place. I have a 10 gallon nano, that's coming up on 1 month. Tank cycled at 2 weeks. I have Carib sea life rock and seeded tank with about 1lbs of friend's established rock and some established media. 1lbs Aqua biomics live gulf sand, Carib sea live sand. I have a pair of Banggai Cardinals, I added pods with dosing some Oceanmagik phyto. No corals. There is no coralline algae in my tank, just some algae.
I was curious and wanted to see what my ALK was at and it's currently at 6.1 I use Red Sea salt (blue bucket) and tested my fresh made salt water at 7.8 ALK. I recently did a water change yesterday about 2 gallons. When my cycle was finished at the 2 week mark I did a 5 gallon water change to reduce nitrates. What's going on with my ALK?
I was curious and wanted to see what my ALK was at and it's currently at 6.1 I use Red Sea salt (blue bucket) and tested my fresh made salt water at 7.8 ALK. I recently did a water change yesterday about 2 gallons. When my cycle was finished at the 2 week mark I did a 5 gallon water change to reduce nitrates. What's going on with my ALK?