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- Tucson, AZ
So since I came back from vac in August my corals were not looking great. Lost some others, others doed a slow death, and some look fine. What I did notice it Acros seem to be uneffected...
I am sadly kinda lazy with testing so I did the other night. What I saw shocked me. My tank is norm great with cal 550+ range and ph 7-9. But when I tested my cal was 220 and alk was 18. I tested again last night and same thing.
I have purple up and liquid reef. I read the bottle and added some liquid reef to up the cal, because it mentioned nothing of alk. I later checked on there site and it says it will up alk too. Wish they would have put that on the bottle. I added alittle mag to the tank last night too.
Anyway what would be the best way to get things back in order? A cal reactor is out of the question.
My salt that I use is Tropicmairne pro, I think next time around I will not get the pro version. My tank is mainly sps frags with a few zoas. Like I said acros seem ok. Montis, pocil, and birdnest are not happy. I just switched over to kessil leds. I just hooked up some npx pellets almost 2 weeks ago too. 57g rimless.
This is prob partially my fault as in the past my alk was a little low due to frequent water top offs. So I started adding alk buffer to my ro water when toping off. Probly should have kept a better eye on that.
Sorry for the long read, any help would be great.
I am sadly kinda lazy with testing so I did the other night. What I saw shocked me. My tank is norm great with cal 550+ range and ph 7-9. But when I tested my cal was 220 and alk was 18. I tested again last night and same thing.
I have purple up and liquid reef. I read the bottle and added some liquid reef to up the cal, because it mentioned nothing of alk. I later checked on there site and it says it will up alk too. Wish they would have put that on the bottle. I added alittle mag to the tank last night too.
Anyway what would be the best way to get things back in order? A cal reactor is out of the question.
My salt that I use is Tropicmairne pro, I think next time around I will not get the pro version. My tank is mainly sps frags with a few zoas. Like I said acros seem ok. Montis, pocil, and birdnest are not happy. I just switched over to kessil leds. I just hooked up some npx pellets almost 2 weeks ago too. 57g rimless.
This is prob partially my fault as in the past my alk was a little low due to frequent water top offs. So I started adding alk buffer to my ro water when toping off. Probly should have kept a better eye on that.
Sorry for the long read, any help would be great.
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