High Alk. Angry corals

[MarineVet]

Hello

My alk was quite high at 12.8 and my tubs Monti and a couple acro frags are angry with me. Letting the corals consume the alk and down to 10. My salt mix runs at about 11.5-11.8. At the same time I had low salinity 1.0225. I raised the salinity to 1.025 by topping off with 1.026 water. That hurt my alk issue. Is there anything else I should be doing?

 

[Uncle99]

Just let Alk fall on its own, it will be slow, but that’s a good thing.

 

[Shirak]

consider a different salt mix with alk inline with your tank goal?

 

[MarineVet]

Thanks guys.
Thinking the same. Don’t know why that batch tested so high. Supposed to be 8-9 alk for the mix. Fritz RPM. Have a new bag now. Will check the alk on this one.

 

[Duffer]

Thanks guys.
Thinking the same. Don’t know why that batch tested so high. Supposed to be 8-9 alk for the mix. Fritz RPM. Have a new bag now. Will check the alk on this one.

That does not surprise with Fritz salt, why I stop using it yrs ago, ever mix I was getting all kinds of crazy reading especially mag, nothing was consistent from one mixed batch to the next

 

[MarineVet]

I have heard good things about fritz. What do you use? Red Sea or tropic Marin?

 

[Duffer]

I have heard good things about fritz. What do you use? Red Sea or tropic Marin?

I use tropic marin pro...to me it’s what I want my parameters to be, and mixes clean ever single time and doesn’t leave brown crud in my mixing tank..ever batch I mix the parameters are also consistent...I tried Red Sea blue bucket but didn’t like it..the alk is low so I dose the batch to 8

 

[MarineVet]

I use tropic marin pro...to me it’s what I want my parameters to be, and mixes clean ever single time and doesn’t leave brown crud in my mixing tank..ever batch I mix the parameters are also consistent...I tried Red Sea blue bucket but didn’t like it..the alk is low so I dose the batch to 8

Thank you for your feedback. Much appreciated