I will keep an eye on the Alk for at least this week.
Dont you have clean up crew? You can try flucanozole for GHA and its pretty effective. But you also need to do some nutrient control. Dont feed anything to your coral no vitamin, no amino, no food nothing. Just feed the fish a little twice a day. Also putting SPS in a tank which is having hard time getting stabilised was a very bad idea. A lot of LFS are good for nothing and with those kind of advice even more than that. I will suggest dont restart instead try slowly to move through it. Start controlling nutrient and add fluconazole as per recommendation.good day @Anirban... well not really
24 hours ago: Ca 425 Alk 8.32 Mg 1440
currently: Ca 435 Alk 8.32 Mg 1440
these measurements all follow a 10% water change that i did last night and while the numbers display stability it sure wreaks havoc on my sps. i don't really understand what the deal is but and for the 3rd water change in a row a few of the stoney corals that have been with me since this all started slowly fall off right after adding the replacement water. some lose color, some go stark white.
the other thing that is concerning to me is the hair algae issue which i will admit is out of control at this point. i have been manually removing what i can, feeding sparingly and running gfo and seeing no progress. i understand that the hair algae in the tank is trapping all my phosphates and because of that my numbers are reasonable when i test but i'm at a loss as to what i should do.
like many i came into the hobby with a poor understanding of live rock treatment and basically bought dry pukani, under my lfs's advice didn't acid bath or even cure it as they claim the organics would assist in cycling my tank. over a year later i am still fighting it and am reaching a point where i'm considering restarting this thing.
The only criticism I have for you are ....
First thing you are starting fresh tank or changing over to the system with a established tank?
understood.
I did all of your mistakes including uncured dry rock and sps and skimmerless and sumpless but I learned over the period. So I understand your pain, but you learned a lesson for life and thats important. I am there and I will be for you and anyone who ask for help. Let me know how the fluco treatment goes. Also dont loose a grip on the major 3 parameters.
absolutely won't. i intend on measuring my ca,alk and mg everyday until i am satisfied that things are cemented in place
You are good no changes.
Start with adding just the Bio S as per recommended water volume for 14 days and shift to Pro bio S after 14 days with NP Pro. You can do a 10% weekly water changes for 8 weeks with the new salt.
Anyway you want...with salt or without salt.
i've also decided i'm going to keep going with the pro bio s and np pro as i haven't really given enough time to make a well judged decision. if i don't see measurable difference after a large bottle of each i will at least know for sure.
Yup drop them 5ml and wait for 3-4 days to see how much it consumes and where it stays. You still have 20 days before you start the treatment so get it there by that time. It will help greatly.
