Maintaining Alkalinity in a nano reef?

Phelipe's Ocean · Jun 23, 2018

Hi everyone, just like the title says does anyone have tips to maintain alk on nano reefs? The tank is about 45 days old for the first 30 days or so I was able to keep the alk pretty stable but in the past 2 weeks they took off in growth and started encrusting everything and I have not been able to keep it as stable since. Im having to increase dosing every 3 days because they are consuming alk and calcium heavily at an unpredictable rate. I maintain my Alk between 8.5 and 9 but its super out of whack now. Last night I dosed an imcreased amount, and this morning my alk was at 8 and I lost a frag to RTN. Its a 30 cube with about 30 sps frags/colonies and Im worried if I dont get this under control im gonna lose them! Any hell will be appreciated.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jun 23, 2018

I'm not convinced an alk of 8 caused RTN, but dosing a two part is probably the easiest way to maintain alk and calcium in a very small tank.

They can be diluted as much as you want or need for using a dosing pump, if you want to go that route.

Phelipe's Ocean · Jun 24, 2018

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
I'm not convinced an alk of 8 caused RTN, but dosing a two part is probably the easiest way to maintain alk and calcium in a very small tank.

They can be diluted as much as you want or need for using a dosing pump, if you want to go that route.

Thanks!