Acceptable water parameters

[thommyboy12183]

I have a 55G tank with fish, anemones and inverts. The tank is 8 months ols amd these are my parameters.


Phosphate - 0.25ppm
Calcium - 500ppm
KH - 214.8 ppm
Nitrate - 40ppm
Ammonia - 0ppm
Nirtite - 0ppm
Salinity - 1.025sg
Temp - 76.8

The calcium and KH from what i have seen seem high any advice on how to lower? Or are these acceptable levels?

I do 10G water changes weekly.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated or should i just keep doing what im doing as all is fine? I usually have a piece of green seaweed in gank at all times for grazing. Feed woth syring every other day frozen formula one cubes. 1 yellow tang, 2 occ clown, 1 fairy wrasse, 1 bicolored leny, 1 haiten anemone, 1 condy anemone, snails, nermites, 1 brittle seastar, 1 marble fromia starfish

 

[mcgyvr]

Yeah alk/cal are on the high end but really shouldn't be much of a problem with whats in your tank.. You might just want to switch to a different salt..
Time to start working on lowering those nitrates/phosphates some too.. You are probably overfeeding a bit,etc...
Its all fine though for a fish only tank.

 

[thommyboy12183]

Yeah alk/cal are on the high end but really shouldn't be much of a problem with whats in your tank.. You might just want to switch to a different salt..
Time to start working on lowering those nitrates/phosphates some too.. You are probably overfeeding a bit,etc...
Its all fine though for a fish only tank.

Thank you for your insight in the future i would eventually like to put in some corals. But i want to lock down my paramters first before hand along with a more established tank.

 

[Sk8r]

They're in a sticky post ^^^^^up above. Your LIGHTS are critical to success with corals.