Typical hammer activity

Peter K · Oct 7, 2017

What additives have been in your usual routine? (I just switched to Fritz and love it so far the alk should be around 9 in the standard mix.)

DSC reef · Oct 7, 2017

I've read mixed reviews on fritz but the source water from fritz and the LFS needs to be tested. Not saying fritz isn't good by any means. Also, premixed water from a LFS makes me nervous. Had many issues with that long ago.

RoughneckReefingWife · Oct 7, 2017

Salinity is currently showing 1.028 I have 10 gallons of RO on hand. Should I do a small wc?

Peter K · Oct 7, 2017

Salinity is high but not a reason to do anything drastic, especially with your alk of 14 your best bet of keeping things alive is to walk your parameters back down slowly over a period of a week or two.

Peter K · Oct 7, 2017

Salinity is high but not a reason to do anything drastic, especially with your alk of 14 your best bet of keeping things alive is to walk your parameters back down slowly over a period of a week or two.

RoughneckReefingWife · Oct 7, 2017

Ok. Thanks! Fingers crossed!!!

RoughneckReefingWife · Oct 7, 2017

I was using Fritz RPM elements 2 part calcium and alkalinity system which says routine dosing of 1sp per 20 gallons of each part per day. So I was doing 6 tsp calcium and 6 tsp alkalinity per day until I noticed they were both high, then I stopped them completely

skysoblue987 · Oct 8, 2017

Did you acclimate it correctly? Every coral I bought I drip acclimate and they all opened up within 2-3 hours.

RoughneckReefingWife · Oct 14, 2017

Still no progress, should I love him?
125 gallon 6 foot tank
No ammonia, phosphates or nitrates
Nitrates below 10ppm
Ph 8.2 -working on getting this up
Calcium 420ppm
Alkalinity 11 dkh
Salinity 26
Eshopps ADV 200 Sump with Eshopps X220 skimmer

Peter K · Oct 14, 2017

Based on looking at your first picture it doesn't look any worse, which is a good sign. Your parameters are back where they should be so I would now focus on keeping things super stable since it only has been a week from your original post. I would still hold off on dosing anything as your tank doesn't seem very high demand in terms of ca/alk consumption so weekly water changes should maintain those levels for now.

DSC reef · Oct 14, 2017

The ph is fine, I wouldn't dose anything. The alk can come down as well. It will take a bit for the hammer to recover if it does once everything is stable.

Lovemyreef2015 · Oct 14, 2017

DSC reef said:
The ph is fine, I wouldn't dose anything. The alk can come down as well. It will take a bit for the hammer to recover if it does once everything is stable.

+1

savetheocean · Oct 14, 2017

Try to blow some of the algae growing on the skeleton of the coral off, cant that annoy them sometimes?

DSC reef · Oct 15, 2017

If it was cyano I'd say yes. The algae I see is just from the skeleton being exposed. I wouldn't risk blowing those polyps being retracted as they are.

Lovemyreef2015 · Oct 15, 2017

I agree with DSC reef. I wouldn't risk blowing the algae off and have a chance of damaging the coral any further. Have you tired moving it to another spot? Your PH is fine, I wouldn't chase numbers.