OneFish
Active Member
Hello all,
I have a 22 gallon mixed reef more on the SPS dominant side and with the plans of getting a lot more SPS. I use Red Sea coral pro salt and do a weekly 4 gallon water change. I also use reef-roids a couple of times a week. I have two Kessil a160we's running for 11 hours, hitting a max of 30% color and 65% intensity for 3 hours. I used to dose a B-Ionic 2 part but stopped about a year ago when I realized my corals weren't large enough to use a noticeable amount nutrients and I was overdosing it.
I do not test often, bad, I know, but I do keep up on weekly water changes with the nutrient/element heavy coral pro salt and only have 2 clowns allowing me to strictly watch how much I feed them so I have always thought my parameters would just be fine. Recently, I have noticed that some of my zoas have been closing up (even though most of my colonies are perfectly fine). I also have had a few SPS in my tank that have not grown upwards in the last 6 months even though they have been continuously encrusting. And, honestly, a few of them could probably use some coloring up - I have thought about using Red Sea's trace elements kit to see how that works.
Yesterday, one day after a water change, I tested and these were my results using the Red Sea foundations pro kit:
Ca - 410 ppm
Mg - 1420 ppm
Alk - 5.3 dKH
Obviously alk. is very low, so my question is - How would you go about raising it? I still have the B-Ionic and I added 6 ml of both part 1 and 2 yesterday. I have to test today, but what is the max can I raise it per day until I get between 7-9 dKH? And how would you spread that out throughout the day?
Once I hit the ideal parameters, I will figure out how much my tank needs everyday and start dosing accordingly. I just need to get to the parameters first!
Dosing 9.6 ml of part 1 will raise my tank by 1 dKH.
Dosing 12.5 ml of part 2 will raise my tank by 10 ppm.
I have a 22 gallon mixed reef more on the SPS dominant side and with the plans of getting a lot more SPS. I use Red Sea coral pro salt and do a weekly 4 gallon water change. I also use reef-roids a couple of times a week. I have two Kessil a160we's running for 11 hours, hitting a max of 30% color and 65% intensity for 3 hours. I used to dose a B-Ionic 2 part but stopped about a year ago when I realized my corals weren't large enough to use a noticeable amount nutrients and I was overdosing it.
I do not test often, bad, I know, but I do keep up on weekly water changes with the nutrient/element heavy coral pro salt and only have 2 clowns allowing me to strictly watch how much I feed them so I have always thought my parameters would just be fine. Recently, I have noticed that some of my zoas have been closing up (even though most of my colonies are perfectly fine). I also have had a few SPS in my tank that have not grown upwards in the last 6 months even though they have been continuously encrusting. And, honestly, a few of them could probably use some coloring up - I have thought about using Red Sea's trace elements kit to see how that works.
Yesterday, one day after a water change, I tested and these were my results using the Red Sea foundations pro kit:
Ca - 410 ppm
Mg - 1420 ppm
Alk - 5.3 dKH
Obviously alk. is very low, so my question is - How would you go about raising it? I still have the B-Ionic and I added 6 ml of both part 1 and 2 yesterday. I have to test today, but what is the max can I raise it per day until I get between 7-9 dKH? And how would you spread that out throughout the day?
Once I hit the ideal parameters, I will figure out how much my tank needs everyday and start dosing accordingly. I just need to get to the parameters first!
Dosing 9.6 ml of part 1 will raise my tank by 1 dKH.
Dosing 12.5 ml of part 2 will raise my tank by 10 ppm.
