Thank you very much it's a lot of work [emoji12]
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Lol, yep it can be very easy to get lost. You can use all Red Sea if you like except for for the phosphates. The thing is alkalinity and nitrates are easier to read on the salifert kit then the Red Sea brand. You know another good source of information is Bulk Reef Supply which is known as brstv on YouTube. They have a great video for test kits that you might be interested in watching.
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the top of water. not the saltwater. you may want to look into an auto top off as well to keep the salinity stable.
I think you need to have your salinity tested as well. My guess is it's very very high. Coral don't do very well over 1.027 which is maximum. Most of us keep ours at 1.025 or 1.026. I keep mine at 26. Am I guess your nitrates and phosphates are quite high as well. All this plus not enough light hours would be why your Coral is not doing well whenever you get any. How many fish do you have and what kind?
Do a salinity test then Soak your hydrometer in very very hot water for a couple of hours and then rinse it really really well then do another salinity test with it. See if it gives you a different reading. It more than likely will this is why you cannot trust a hydrometer.
Is it a cube?
Thanks, yes it's a cube... 29 gallons. Hoping to upgrade to a 40/50 gallon later this year. Any bigger and I'll go broke trying to stock it. You know we can always make room for one more. I agree with the Sea Hares... you gotta keep a good eye on them but they get the job done with little effort on your part. Guess I missed the topping off with salt water part... my bad.She isn't going to scrub them in tank. She only has a 14g nano so a quick scrub and h202 soak (outside of the tank)plus a few snails will keep it away while she gets the tank in balance.
Sea hares are great but they can also die in your system if the parameters are not good especially salinity which hers is way to high. (Being that she's been topping off with saltwater for some time). Otherwise it's a great idea
Nice tank btw
Thank you for your advice, since i have started already scrubbing rocks, (out of the tank) was wondwring do i realky need that many rocks in my cube, how many rocks do you have in yours to make it look so pretty? I figuref to have corals and such the needed rocks to adhere to, bur being irs onky 14 g i probably have way to many rocks...I used a Sea Hare when my tank looked like that. I'm not one for adding chemicals or removing rocks to scrub them. If you scrub them in tank you're just spreading it. A Sea Hare will knock that out in a few days. In the mean time, enhance you CUC, keep up with your water changes and maybe cut down your max lighting cycle. Once the Sea Hare has done his job, see if your LFS needs him as with no algae to munch he'll wither and die... probably somewhere you can't reach without deconstructing a section of your tank. Good luck.
