Mmoore0324
New Member
Hey everyone,
My current system is about 3 months old and is approximately 107 total system gallons. I set the system up from the beginning using Triton Methodology. I currently have a 20g refugium growing Chaeto very nicely on a reverse photo cycle. I have done zero water changes and set the tank up with ESV Salt and mixed the batch to 8 Dkh. I've been waiting to start dosing Core7 until I get a Dkh drop. The tank is moderately stocked with SPS and a few LPS sprinkled in. I do have coralline growing, the frags are slowly encrusting, and I've seen about 3/4" growth on my Milka Stylo, however my dkh has not dropped at all. So being frustrated by this, yesterday I started really looking at the system and realized that my Ph is low. 7.8 - 8.0 (my PM1 died on my last system and I didn't replace, so testing with API for now.) Now it started to make sense why my ca / dkh uptake is been low. I live in Florida and in the cooler months when I'm not running the A/C all the time we don't get a lot of fresh air circulation through the house so I'm looking at running a fresh air line into my protein skimmer. I also dosed some AquaVitro Balance last night to boost the Ph.
My question is... should I go ahead and start dosing Core7 on a low dose to get the Ph up, I believe Core7 runs 8.3 ph? I know the dkh will rise, but hopefully once Ph gets back up, dkh will then be depleted in a normal fashion.
Thanks for the help and insight
Matt
My current system is about 3 months old and is approximately 107 total system gallons. I set the system up from the beginning using Triton Methodology. I currently have a 20g refugium growing Chaeto very nicely on a reverse photo cycle. I have done zero water changes and set the tank up with ESV Salt and mixed the batch to 8 Dkh. I've been waiting to start dosing Core7 until I get a Dkh drop. The tank is moderately stocked with SPS and a few LPS sprinkled in. I do have coralline growing, the frags are slowly encrusting, and I've seen about 3/4" growth on my Milka Stylo, however my dkh has not dropped at all. So being frustrated by this, yesterday I started really looking at the system and realized that my Ph is low. 7.8 - 8.0 (my PM1 died on my last system and I didn't replace, so testing with API for now.) Now it started to make sense why my ca / dkh uptake is been low. I live in Florida and in the cooler months when I'm not running the A/C all the time we don't get a lot of fresh air circulation through the house so I'm looking at running a fresh air line into my protein skimmer. I also dosed some AquaVitro Balance last night to boost the Ph.
My question is... should I go ahead and start dosing Core7 on a low dose to get the Ph up, I believe Core7 runs 8.3 ph? I know the dkh will rise, but hopefully once Ph gets back up, dkh will then be depleted in a normal fashion.
Thanks for the help and insight
Matt
