Feeling a bit bamboozled, reef chemistry is doing me a hecking hard time.
Tank is 22 gallon, probably about 35 gallons water volume with the sum. SPS dominated (there are a lot of growing pieces in a small display.) The tank is about a year old this month. I don't do anything other than water changes, skim heavy, lots of light, lots of flow.
After adding a few more SPS pieces, I started to use ESV for dosing.
I first started dosing at the start of August (the 9th.) Here's what's been happening, all dosing has been by a bubble magus, unless noted by hand. Also note: I thought I had incredibly high calcium and low alk, that was user error with my testing Salifert, my calcium was actually probably fine, so for a period of time I was only dosing for alk, which was low. I am using the Hannah Checker for alk.
I got my alk up from 6 dKH by hand dosing, and hooked up the bubble magus on 8/27, here are my readings after figuring out that my corals were using about 7ml of ESV for alk a day.
8/28 - 8.16
8/29 - 7.77
8/30 - 7.60
8/31 - 7.60
9/1 - 7.71
9/8 - 7.82
9/13 - 7.60 I also decided to check my calcium, and found it was 380. No fast changes made, did a 7 gallon water change with Reef Crystals.
9/14 - 7.43
9/17 - 7.71 (Calcium was only up to 390 with water change) Dosed ESV part B do bring calc up, all at once)
9/24 - 7.1 (Calcium is now at 490)
9/26 - 6.87 (had to leave for work, so I setup the doser to do 14ml per day (double what I was dosing) but also dose about 10ml by hand, didn't have time to test alk.
9/28 - Had friend test alk - 6.09!
Had them dose 10ml of Alk solution (ESV) and test 10 minutes later, 6.75
Do those alk numbers make sense? It would seem with the steady decline, I should have upped ml per day, but it seems like such a rapid jump recently almost dropping a full dKH in two days, and the weird 9/1-9/8 scenario in which It seemed I was dosing too much.
One of my small nubs of millie is bleaching, but otherwise, everything else seems to be handling OK, considering I've flexed inbetween 6-8 over the past month and a half.
Tank is 22 gallon, probably about 35 gallons water volume with the sum. SPS dominated (there are a lot of growing pieces in a small display.) The tank is about a year old this month. I don't do anything other than water changes, skim heavy, lots of light, lots of flow.
After adding a few more SPS pieces, I started to use ESV for dosing.
I first started dosing at the start of August (the 9th.) Here's what's been happening, all dosing has been by a bubble magus, unless noted by hand. Also note: I thought I had incredibly high calcium and low alk, that was user error with my testing Salifert, my calcium was actually probably fine, so for a period of time I was only dosing for alk, which was low. I am using the Hannah Checker for alk.
I got my alk up from 6 dKH by hand dosing, and hooked up the bubble magus on 8/27, here are my readings after figuring out that my corals were using about 7ml of ESV for alk a day.
8/28 - 8.16
8/29 - 7.77
8/30 - 7.60
8/31 - 7.60
9/1 - 7.71
9/8 - 7.82
9/13 - 7.60 I also decided to check my calcium, and found it was 380. No fast changes made, did a 7 gallon water change with Reef Crystals.
9/14 - 7.43
9/17 - 7.71 (Calcium was only up to 390 with water change) Dosed ESV part B do bring calc up, all at once)
9/24 - 7.1 (Calcium is now at 490)
9/26 - 6.87 (had to leave for work, so I setup the doser to do 14ml per day (double what I was dosing) but also dose about 10ml by hand, didn't have time to test alk.
9/28 - Had friend test alk - 6.09!
Had them dose 10ml of Alk solution (ESV) and test 10 minutes later, 6.75
Do those alk numbers make sense? It would seem with the steady decline, I should have upped ml per day, but it seems like such a rapid jump recently almost dropping a full dKH in two days, and the weird 9/1-9/8 scenario in which It seemed I was dosing too much.
One of my small nubs of millie is bleaching, but otherwise, everything else seems to be handling OK, considering I've flexed inbetween 6-8 over the past month and a half.
