Karling
Community Member
Hey everyone!
So i posted a couple of times on how odd my tank was acting. I have checked tested water double/triple checked salinity at home etc. Fish are doing GREAT, corals were just not doing well. So today I went to pick up water to do a large water change. I figured maybe something was up I that i was just not able to see or think of, SO large water change! So I took some water with me to test (my LFS tests for free). LFS staff takes my samples starts to work away at testing. We are chatting along with the owners of the store. I'm talking about whats going on we are chatting about reasons it could possibly be. Young guy calls us over.. everything is reading dang near perfect, ammonia was at .02 PPM. everything else right in check. The kiddo says, let me test for coral parameters, pulls calcium (good), Alk (good), PH 8.2, Mag was high at like 1350. We were like well crap... I'm doing a large water change tonight and then again mid week next week. I was like, uh.. can you check Salinity for me....
kid walks away 2 minutes later comes over... found the issue... 1.028 - My tester is .003 off! which is fine, now i know. Ill get water, test it, should read 1.021 which i know is 1.024 and i can keep the tank in check going foward.
Calabrate, calabrate, calabrate... did a large water change (30Gal) with 1.024 water, and 7 gallons of RODI water only. All coral is peaking out now and the tank looks amazing just an hour after the change.
So i posted a couple of times on how odd my tank was acting. I have checked tested water double/triple checked salinity at home etc. Fish are doing GREAT, corals were just not doing well. So today I went to pick up water to do a large water change. I figured maybe something was up I that i was just not able to see or think of, SO large water change! So I took some water with me to test (my LFS tests for free). LFS staff takes my samples starts to work away at testing. We are chatting along with the owners of the store. I'm talking about whats going on we are chatting about reasons it could possibly be. Young guy calls us over.. everything is reading dang near perfect, ammonia was at .02 PPM. everything else right in check. The kiddo says, let me test for coral parameters, pulls calcium (good), Alk (good), PH 8.2, Mag was high at like 1350. We were like well crap... I'm doing a large water change tonight and then again mid week next week. I was like, uh.. can you check Salinity for me....
kid walks away 2 minutes later comes over... found the issue... 1.028 - My tester is .003 off! which is fine, now i know. Ill get water, test it, should read 1.021 which i know is 1.024 and i can keep the tank in check going foward.
Calabrate, calabrate, calabrate... did a large water change (30Gal) with 1.024 water, and 7 gallons of RODI water only. All coral is peaking out now and the tank looks amazing just an hour after the change.
