Hello all.
In my efforts to create a little more stability in a 32 gallon tank that's prone to neglect, i've recently (a week ago) switched to 3 part original balling method style dosing using Tropic Marin's 3 part liquid A, B & C.. My thoughts are this will help bring more stability to the salinity and remineralization in a tank that occasionally gets neglected. Since we can't all afford to put an apex and a trident on a biocube, I'm trying to target numbers in middle-ish ranges for a mixed reef tank. My numbers are holding steady at around 400 calcium, 8.5 dKH and 1200 magnesium. Pretty good except for the magnesium level that just will not budge. I've been doing daily doses of around 90 ml. of part C, which is about half the recommended maximum dosage Tropic Marin recommends for a 30 gallon tank. I add it. I add it. I add a little more and it just will not budge. My red sea kit shows it at 1200-1210. Ideally, i'd like to have it at 1300 to 1350.
Also, my LPS and soft corals really really hate the change in water parameters. That's been preventing me from doing the maximum recommended dose, because the softies and LPS seem to be reacting poorly having adapted to lower mineral tank water. I'm hoping they can adapt to the parameters changes if they've grown accustomed to crappy water parameters.
Is there anybody that can take a step back and look at what i'm doing? Here's the rest of the tank numbers: Ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate somewhere between 2-5 ppm, phosphates undetectable on salifert kit.
In my efforts to create a little more stability in a 32 gallon tank that's prone to neglect, i've recently (a week ago) switched to 3 part original balling method style dosing using Tropic Marin's 3 part liquid A, B & C.. My thoughts are this will help bring more stability to the salinity and remineralization in a tank that occasionally gets neglected. Since we can't all afford to put an apex and a trident on a biocube, I'm trying to target numbers in middle-ish ranges for a mixed reef tank. My numbers are holding steady at around 400 calcium, 8.5 dKH and 1200 magnesium. Pretty good except for the magnesium level that just will not budge. I've been doing daily doses of around 90 ml. of part C, which is about half the recommended maximum dosage Tropic Marin recommends for a 30 gallon tank. I add it. I add it. I add a little more and it just will not budge. My red sea kit shows it at 1200-1210. Ideally, i'd like to have it at 1300 to 1350.
Also, my LPS and soft corals really really hate the change in water parameters. That's been preventing me from doing the maximum recommended dose, because the softies and LPS seem to be reacting poorly having adapted to lower mineral tank water. I'm hoping they can adapt to the parameters changes if they've grown accustomed to crappy water parameters.
Is there anybody that can take a step back and look at what i'm doing? Here's the rest of the tank numbers: Ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate somewhere between 2-5 ppm, phosphates undetectable on salifert kit.
