With months of neglecting my tank and treatments for cyano and gha, and just fish in the tank I finally decided to take care and want to build an sps dominant tank now. I had left my dosers on after my tank crashed when all my corals died and some fish, then I started neglecting it. My parameters were through the rough so I will attach them within a couple days and after doing a 20 gallon water change.
07/25/23: 50.3
PH: 8.2
Ammonia: 0.25ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 40 ppm
Phosphate: .50 ppm possibly
No skimmer active and loss of flow
I currently just tested alkalinity and it’s at like 13.7-14. Calicum is at 500+ ppm plus I can only see to 500 on my redsea test kit. So I’m just going to assume between 500-600 easily. I guess the tank just racked up all these numbers with the dosers being on and nothing in the tank but fish. But with this high alk that means calcium should be reduced which then means my calcium had to be through the roof at maybe 1000ppm who knows
7/30/23: 50.3
Summary: turned off dosers because there were no corals and parameters were extremely high.
Test Kit Red Sea Foundation Pro:
Alkalinity: 10.6 dkh
Calcium: 500 ppm
Magnesium: 1400 ppm
Test Kit API:
High range PH: 8.0
Ammonia: looking like maybe 0-0.5 maybe, doesn’t look fully yellow(showing zero)
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Phosphate: 0.25 ppm
Nitrate: looks to be 20 ppm
Equipment and what I’m running (7/30/23):
Water box 50.3 AIO
Skimmer
Filter floss
1 fluval Phosphate filter pad absorber (for fun)
A bag of gfo
Couple bags of carbon
Filter mesh
1 Nero on max (2000 GPH)
Waiting for my other one to get replaced
1 jebeo sow-4 max speed
1 jebeao slw-10
2 AI hydra 32hd
2 dosers dosing calcium and alkalinity
3 clowns and one baby wrasse
What numbers should I try to chase, to create stability?
07/25/23: 50.3
PH: 8.2
Ammonia: 0.25ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 40 ppm
Phosphate: .50 ppm possibly
No skimmer active and loss of flow
I currently just tested alkalinity and it’s at like 13.7-14. Calicum is at 500+ ppm plus I can only see to 500 on my redsea test kit. So I’m just going to assume between 500-600 easily. I guess the tank just racked up all these numbers with the dosers being on and nothing in the tank but fish. But with this high alk that means calcium should be reduced which then means my calcium had to be through the roof at maybe 1000ppm who knows
7/30/23: 50.3
Summary: turned off dosers because there were no corals and parameters were extremely high.
Test Kit Red Sea Foundation Pro:
Alkalinity: 10.6 dkh
Calcium: 500 ppm
Magnesium: 1400 ppm
Test Kit API:
High range PH: 8.0
Ammonia: looking like maybe 0-0.5 maybe, doesn’t look fully yellow(showing zero)
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Phosphate: 0.25 ppm
Nitrate: looks to be 20 ppm
Equipment and what I’m running (7/30/23):
Water box 50.3 AIO
Skimmer
Filter floss
1 fluval Phosphate filter pad absorber (for fun)
A bag of gfo
Couple bags of carbon
Filter mesh
1 Nero on max (2000 GPH)
Waiting for my other one to get replaced
1 jebeo sow-4 max speed
1 jebeao slw-10
2 AI hydra 32hd
2 dosers dosing calcium and alkalinity
3 clowns and one baby wrasse
What numbers should I try to chase, to create stability?