Daily consumption dkh

[wilsonline]

My uptake is a bit high and IDK if there something wrong going here. In a WhatsApp group, someone told me that it was way too high for my tank (new and small corals). And that in his 10 years of research, he has never seen anything above 2 dkh. Considering the numbers I get from my DOS controlled by the Trident/Apex, the math is just above 2 dkh today and it has been almost 3 dkh for a little time, but it dropped.
So is there anyone with more than 2 dkh daily consumption? Any hypothesis of why my uptake is so high?
It's a Red Sea 350. Numbers varied from 125 to 200 + ml per day (during the last few months). Now it dropped significantly. I dropped lights and have a ciano or dino bloom idk.

 

[mindme]

As I understand it, the higher the DKH you maintain, the more it takes to replenish it. Since you are at 9.46, that would probably mean a good bit higher consumption over if it was 8.

Have you checked for precipitation?

 

[mdb_talon]

That does not at all seem unreasonable to me. I have had tanks that consume around that. I am sure there are many on this forum with that consumption and higher.

In any case i would not be concerned about that at all. If you are not getting a lot of precipitate forming and corals happy then higher consumption is a good thing.

 

[Reef.]

With a tank looking like that just carry on doing what you are, 2dkh seems on the low side if anything, given all that coralline algae, your tank is the first one I've seen where the covered back wall looks good.

 

[guylaga]

Basis the picture you provided, 2dkh a day consumption is reasonable.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I agree. A soft coral tank with coralline growing (the pic shows a ton of coralline) can consume 2 dKH per day.