How to lower mag?

dougers31 · Nov 5, 2013

Starting to wonder if I just have a bad batch of Reef Crystals as some of my corals(especially chalices) seem to be dying off

Also since I'm having issues with algae not growing it seems that the salt may be the issue. I have a very good skimmer, my sal. is at 1.024, cal is 370, alk is 8.2, phos and nitrate are undetectable though that is with using old test kits(phos/trate). Fish seem fine, water is crystal clear and I've always had decent luck with corals so not sure what else it could be...

EDIT: Salt is good, test kit was good(as far as I know) but my testing method was bad.

dougers31 · Nov 5, 2013

Ummm... yeah, I'm an idiot. I missed the loopy arrow that has a "5x" above it so I was only adding 20% of part A solution... time to retest. Not a fan of the directions but I should have known better. Sorry for the hassle as I'm sure to get better results by doing it correctly...

dougers31 · Nov 6, 2013

Just an fyi. I tested a new batch of (Reef crystals) at 1.024 and came up with cal./440, alk./10.2, and mag./1400 Not bad if you ask me. Now I just have to figure out what is killing my chalices etc and why algae is so limited.