I set up a new red sea max nano 3 weeks ago. I had a 35L nano up and running for over a year before that with lots of live rock and just a hob filter and no skimmer. I made 75 litre of new salt water with coral pro salt to the recommended 34ppt. I measured the alk and calc which seemed roughly inline with what it was supposed to be with that salt. 450 ca KH around 11 dkh. I then used a new sand with only a small amount of sand from the old tank and I moved over all the mature live rock from the old tank and added a load of new ceramic rock. The live rocks had a few mushrooms and other small sofites on it and 1 small duncan plus one small candy cane. I moved over all the CUC and the two fish i have a small azure damsel and green chromis. I figured that since i am not increasing bio-load and the rock is mature and was move from tank right into the other within seconds that there wont be a cycle. The live rock will seed the new sand and ceramic rock.
So far everything has went to plan and the corals and fish are looking better than ever except for my Astrea Snails which now seem to be falling over and getting stuck which they never really done before. I am keeping a close eye on the params and have noticed that my alk and calc have dropped much faster than I expected.
The alk dropped from 10/11 to 6dkh in 7 days and thats with a 10% water change. The calc was down to about 400/410. Does this seem normal such a small tank with no sps and only two small lps and no visible coraline algae growing yet? Does the calc drop and alk number seem right? I was expecting it to take a few weeks to see much of a drop in anything.
Its taking 8 mil of red sea reef foundation A and 9ml of foundation b to keep ca and kh stable at around 450 and 11 dkh. Mag is stable.
I was told in another foum that it could be the ceramic rock thats causing this and I red on the red sea website that a new sand bed can also cause this.
What do you guys think?
So far everything has went to plan and the corals and fish are looking better than ever except for my Astrea Snails which now seem to be falling over and getting stuck which they never really done before. I am keeping a close eye on the params and have noticed that my alk and calc have dropped much faster than I expected.
The alk dropped from 10/11 to 6dkh in 7 days and thats with a 10% water change. The calc was down to about 400/410. Does this seem normal such a small tank with no sps and only two small lps and no visible coraline algae growing yet? Does the calc drop and alk number seem right? I was expecting it to take a few weeks to see much of a drop in anything.
Its taking 8 mil of red sea reef foundation A and 9ml of foundation b to keep ca and kh stable at around 450 and 11 dkh. Mag is stable.
I was told in another foum that it could be the ceramic rock thats causing this and I red on the red sea website that a new sand bed can also cause this.
What do you guys think?
It should pass, but let us know if it keeps up for more than a week or two.
