Tank stopped consuming alk?

Picoflreefer. · Sep 2, 2020

Usually my alk drops 1 dkh in 24 hours if not dosed. It’s been 36 hours and my alk has been 9 without any dosing. My calcium is still being consumed. have a 7 gallon nano mixed reef. I dose seachem and aquavitro. I’ve used 3 different tests. I also took my water to The lfs and had it tested.

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Simplyorange · Sep 2, 2020

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terraincognita · Sep 17, 2020

What happened?

Possibly the dosing was lagging depending on what you were dosing?

Dosing isn't necessarily dosing the exact element, but instead a separate element that reacts with other elements in the water column to then make the element you want.

I'm doing more research on separate alk dosing on top of 2 part right now so i'm interested in what happened.

Picoflreefer. · Sep 18, 2020

I was dosing 8.4 aquavitro! It was raising my alk but not keeping it stable. Went to reef fusion part a and b and solved my problem!

Randy Holmes-Farley · Sep 22, 2020

Flreefer772 said:
Usually my alk drops 1 dkh in 24 hours if not dosed. It’s been 36 hours and my alk has been 9 without any dosing. My calcium is still being consumed. have a 7 gallon nano mixed reef. I dose seachem and aquavitro. I’ve used 3 different tests. I also took my water to The lfs and had it tested.

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Test error or other coincidental effect.

There is no possibility that calcium is consumed without a balanced amount of alkalinity also consumed (2.8 dKH for each 18-20 ppm of calcium).

Randy Holmes-Farley · Sep 22, 2020

Flreefer772 said:
I was dosing 8.4 aquavitro! It was raising my alk but not keeping it stable. Went to reef fusion part a and b and solved my problem!

Oh yes, it's just a medium pH alk supplement. Nothing special.

mikereefing · Sep 22, 2020

Following. I had this happen for the past 2 weeks which is why the majority of my acros are stn'ing from the base and tips from high alk

everything was stable previously

Picoflreefer. · Sep 25, 2020

I simply started dosing sea chem reef fusion and now my alk only drops .1 a day . The 8.4 yes rose my alk but it didn’t keep it stable. Would drop everyday a full 1 dkh. Rookie error. It’s a learning process

Randy Holmes-Farley · Sep 25, 2020

mikereefing said:
Following. I had this happen for the past 2 weeks which is why the majority of my acros are stn'ing from the base and tips from high alk everything was stable previously

Id think of it the other way around. Something is harming the corals and they stop calcifying, not that the stopped calcification us the cause of the STN.

Picoflreefer. · Sep 25, 2020

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
Id think of it the other way around. Something is harming the corals and they stop calcifying, not that the stopped calcification us the cause of the STN.

I’m not understanding. My tank has not stopped consuming calcium. It’s consumed 2ml of calcification everyday since before I have solved my issue as well as current.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Sep 26, 2020

I guess I’m not understanding your post. You said

“I had this happen for the past 2 weeks which is why the majority of my acros are stn'ing from the base and tips from high alk

everything was stable previously“

which sounds like you meant they stopped consuming alk. And that Is exactly what I posted about.

mikereefing · Sep 26, 2020

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
I guess I’m not understanding your post. You said

“I had this happen for the past 2 weeks which is why the majority of my acros are stn'ing from the base and tips from high alk everything was stable previously“

which sounds like you meant they stopped consuming alk. And that Is exactly what I posted about.

I understand what u mean. I think you quoted the wrong guy lol because I understand your explanation.