New Reef Parameters

[Carlosa19]

Hello fellow reefers. First of all thanks for inspiring me to get into the hobby. I've seen multiple tanks that look beautiful due to the corals and decided to give it a shot. So about two weeks of Dosing Kent Nano reef A and B daily a two part solution gave me a parameter reading of
CALCIUM- 580
KH- 286.4
NITRATES- 20PPM
PHOSPHATES- 0.25PPM
After doing research my levels are a bit high so I wanted to ask y'all for advice on adjusting them. Should I stop Dosing? Do a water change?

 

[abw75]

Welcome to the hobby. I think you should not dose things without corals ( I mean many corals which will deplete elements from water). Just regular water changes will keep things at good levels.
No3 & PO4 looks ok for now and most corals, except sps - po4 0,05 - 0,1 is better
Ca is too high
KH - 286?????

 

[Carlosa19]

Welcome to the hobby. I think you should not dose things without corals ( I mean many corals which will deplete elements from water). Just regular water changes will keep things at good levels.
No3 & PO4 looks ok for now and most corals, except sps - po4 0,05 - 0,1 is better
Ca is too high
KH - 286?????

Thanks and Do you have any suggestions on how to lower the calcium? As for the Kh I used the API reef test kit and calculated my carbonate hardness to be around that level

 

[abw75]

Water changes will lower it, dont think have to panic yet. If my conversion for KH is correct (ppm to dKH) you have more than 16 dKH where should be around 8-9?
Your tank is cycled? Do you have fish in?
If not, do a large water change with a good salt and all parameters should be ok (if salinity is ok);
Most important, don’t rush and leave everything to become stable;
Dosing stuff in a tank is required only when have many growing corals and have to be done only after testing water;
Personally I keep everything like:
- Sal : 34
- KH - 8-8,5
- NO3 - 10-20
- PO4 - 0,05 - 0,1
- Ca - 420 - 450
- Mg - 1250-1350

 

[Silent]

If 286.4 is ppm then the conversion is ppm x 0.056 = dkh which would make it 16 dkh. If you are using ppm try to get it closer to 150 ppm.

 

[dbowman5]

Thanks and Do you have any suggestions on how to lower the calcium? As for the Kh I used the API reef test kit and calculated my carbonate hardness to be around that level

so about 16 dKH on the hardness? lol by the time i found my kit and figured it out Silent posted and i did not see it. piling on, points deducted.

 

[Carlosa19]

Yes I have a Harem of clownfish thats made up of 6 clowns, two jawfish and a fire shrimp. As For coral I have a gsp frag, a couple of macroalgae, Dragons breath, Deadman fingers, red grape algae, chaeto, Rainbow anemone, carpet anemone and a neon green one(forgot the name)

 

[14 foot reef]

I would stop all dosing, the items you have in your tank will be fine with the elements refreshed by water changes. I did not see your Salinity reading, if that is high, it will through off Calcium, Alk, and Magnsium. I would just concentrate on water changes. make sure your salinity gauge is 100% accurate.

 

[Carlosa19]

I would stop all dosing, the items you have in your tank will be fine with the elements refreshed by water changes. I did not see your Salinity reading, if that is high, it will through off Calcium, Alk, and Magnsium. I would just concentrate on water changes. make sure your salinity gauge is 100% accurate.

Oops it got by me my salinity is 1.021

 

[abw75]

PS - many reefers around have

Oops it got by me my salinity is 1.021

With livestock in tank already, just make slow adjustments - I mean water changes (better smaller volume and more often than once a big one); In this way can slowly increase salinity and decrease all other params in a more safe zone;
Remember, dont rush and do everything slowly - reef tanks can handle many mistakes, but not sudden changes;

 

[Carlosa19]

PS - many reefers around have

With livestock in tank already, just make slow adjustments - I mean water changes (better smaller volume and more often than once a big one); In this way can slowly increase salinity and decrease all other params in a more safe zone;
Remember, dont rush and do everything slowly - reef tanks can handle many mistakes, but not sudden changes;

I will probably change about 1 or two gallons a week until I reach the desired salinity and until the levels adjust

 

[abw75]

Dont know your tank size, but generaly accepted as safe and effective water change is 10% / week (at least for smaller tanks) mantained in a "classical" way; For very large tanks or tanks mantained using Triton or simmilar methods, than water changes are different (but this is a bit higher level reefing )

 

[Carlosa19]

Hello fellow reefers. First of all thanks for inspiring me to get into the hobby. I've seen multiple tanks that look beautiful due to the corals and decided to give it a shot. So about two weeks of Dosing Kent Nano reef A and B daily a two part solution gave me a parameter reading of
CALCIUM- 580
KH- 286.4
NITRATES- 20PPM
PHOSPHATES- 0.25PPM
After doing research my levels are a bit high so I wanted to ask y'all for advice on adjusting them. Should I stop Dosing? Do a water change?

Hey Fellow reefers So I decided to let the tank do its thing and it got a green film algae all over the tank resulting my copepods to multiply in crazy numbers. My parameters also changed due to not dosing and are now
Calcium-440ppm
Kh-214.8ppm
Nitrates 0ppm
PHOSPHATES-0.25ppm
Salinity-1.030ppm
My rainbow nem is doing great (hosted by my blood red clown)
My bright green one is doing good as well, my multiple zoas are good, my kenya tree and gsp too. The polyps that I swore died out popped back up out of nowhere. My hammer is doing horrible and I think it on the verge of dying

 

[Bfragale]

Your salinity should be 1.025-1.026. Your salinity and dKH is a bit high.

 

[Carlosa19]

Your salinity should be 1.025-1.026. Your salinity and dKH is a bit high.

Yes I've been working on lowering the salinity doing water changes and adding in RODI water as for the KH I'm not sure how to lower it and figured it'll lower itself because it was around 286.4 and now slowly decreasing

 

[Chibils]

Keep up a.regular water change schedule and your alkalinity will slowly correct itself. I don't think you have anything in there at the moment that will be terribly affected by the high alkalinity, so long as you don't adjust it too rapidly.

 

[Carlosa19]

Keep up a.regular water change schedule and your alkalinity will slowly correct itself. I don't think you have anything in there at the moment that will be terribly affected by the high alkalinity, so long as you don't adjust it too rapidly.

sounds good thank you!