Hi all,
Wonder if you can help.
My tank at the moment is using KH like you wouldn’t believe. Levels I have never seen before.
I am currently dosing Red Sea Foundation B (image below), alongside foundation A and C.
My question, Is there a cheaper alternative available in the UK with the same quality? Or would anyone know a reason as to why the KH is depleting so quickly?
For reference, I like to keep the KH around 10 and dosing around 212ml per week to maintain this level! (via automatic daily dosing of 30ml)
Can someone help me or help me create a day by day schedule to help my tank im dosing neophos and prime but my reading are
Salinity 1.024
Alkalinity 15.3
PH 7.4
Phosphate 0
Nitrate 50-100
Nitrite 0.1
Ammonia 0.25
It’s only a 52L tank. I have a frogspawn(closed few days) everything else is fine 2 clownfish urchin torch and mushroom
Week 3 and 4! Diatoms everywhere! Massive KH drop forcing a mid cycle water change. Understanding KH and the role of KH/PH in cycling was a massive learning curve for me! Hopefully nitrites continue to drop to 0! Ammonia at 0! Should be cycled in a week or so!
I dont think these guys are happy. My alk admittedly swings from 7.7-8.3 every couple of days. I do weekly water changes(5gal in a 18x18) I dose .75ml Seachem Fusion 2 every 2 days. My salinity is 1.025. Nitrate is right around 5 but phosphate gets a little high 0.20. I dont have a bio bioload but I run a skimmer. Ammonia and nitrite 0.
How often is everyone else testing? I test every Sunday morning before my lights go on. I also do a 10 %water change religiously every Sunday. These numbers are tropic Marin pro reef salt with 7 ml of soda ash mixed with 4 gallons of water for my weekly water change to bring my alk up to around 9. I also dose 2.5 ml twice a week of potassium and 3ml daily of all for reef.
What would suck your alkalinity down to zero. And what is is the ideal alkalinity for a reef tank?
My alk dipped to 3.8 but I'm working on bringing it up thank God I caught it early. Mostly softies with a few lps.
Hi all,
Wonder if you can help.
My tank at the moment is using KH like you wouldn’t believe. Levels I have never seen before.
I am currently dosing Red Sea Foundation B (image below), alongside foundation A and C.
My question, Is there a cheaper alternative available in the UK with the same quality? Or would anyone know a reason as to why the KH is depleting so quickly?
For reference, I like to keep the KH around 10 and dosing around 212ml per week to maintain this level! (via automatic daily dosing of 30ml)
does anyone else have issues keeping their pH above 8? Mine is just hardlocked at 7.8 and even when adding buffers the pH went from 8.1-8.2 right back down to 7.8 in under a day.
To all that dose all for reef. Why would my alkalinity drop with no change in Calcium with AFR dosing?
First time using all for reef, says to adjust my parameters, I just did that but confused on when to start dosing all for reef, can I do it immediately after adjusting my parameters or do I have to wait for them to drop a bit?
How should I be adding Alkalinity
Any ideas to raise ph and not cal or alk there all perfect just ph is at like 7.4 ish