Okay great this is the kinda advice I’m looking for !!!
high calcium if fine, the alk at 7 is a little low but fine, i like to keep mine at 11 just so if it drops a bit it wont go into the danger zone, but alk swings are most detrimental so just keep it stable wherever you keep it at. once the corals start to take off you will see the calcium begin to drop along with the alkalinity so monitor it and dose accordingly and make sure you dont dose alk and cal at the same time as it will precipitate, you may also want to invest in a cheap auto doser like the chinese jebao DP-4 which is what i use.
yeah thats the 2 part that i use, just make sure you figure out the daily alk consumption of the tank which can be difficult at first, i dosed by hand until i knew how much my consumption was then i calibrated my auto doser and set it up, also bear in mind that consumption will increase with time as the colonies get larger. another trick i learned is when doing water changes test the salt mix to see if it is low in alk, if so dose the salt water with the alk solution and bring it to the same as the tank this will prevent swings when you do a water change, these small swings in alk may not seem like much but corals are very similar to plants in the aspect that if they get slightly stressed they will cut consumption until they are happy again.
Haha nice!! I like it you should put some zoas in the eyesI’m trying to do one with Leptastrea, originally just mounted the frag on top of my skull and thought I would remove it after it got started.. kinda looks like a hat now so think I’ll leave it alone
