Patrick Cox
Active member
I have a roughly 100G primarily SPS aquarium that has been up and running since Feb, 2016. Over the past year or so it has been fairly stable. Over the past year I have been running my Alk around 7.5. I started the tank out with low alk because I initially tried Zeovit but then stopped and never raised my alk. Over the past 6-9 months I have been experiencing some pretty good growth and have had to keep raising my daily dosing. (I use hourly dosing pumps and does ESV products.)
Now all of a sudden my Alk dropped to 6.5 so I started adding some supplemental Alk doses to try to raise my alk level and I can't seem to get the level back up. On top of my daily dosing of 38mm of ESV Alk and CA, I dosed an extra 5 ml per day of Alk with no increase so I tried 10ml per day with no increase and now today I have dosed an additional 20ml of Alk. So now I am wondering if I have a balance issue.
So I just took the following 3 tests...
Alk - 6.6
CA - 385
Mg - 1245
I decided after these tests to also dose 10ml of CA and 100 ml of Magnesium (ESV as well.)
Any thoughts on why I can't seem to get my Alk back up? Maybe there is a problem with my supplement? Is there a way to test the strength of my dosing solution? Do I have a balance issue where one level won't allow Alk to raise? I am not really that well versed on this.
Thanks for suggestions!
Now all of a sudden my Alk dropped to 6.5 so I started adding some supplemental Alk doses to try to raise my alk level and I can't seem to get the level back up. On top of my daily dosing of 38mm of ESV Alk and CA, I dosed an extra 5 ml per day of Alk with no increase so I tried 10ml per day with no increase and now today I have dosed an additional 20ml of Alk. So now I am wondering if I have a balance issue.
So I just took the following 3 tests...
Alk - 6.6
CA - 385
Mg - 1245
I decided after these tests to also dose 10ml of CA and 100 ml of Magnesium (ESV as well.)
Any thoughts on why I can't seem to get my Alk back up? Maybe there is a problem with my supplement? Is there a way to test the strength of my dosing solution? Do I have a balance issue where one level won't allow Alk to raise? I am not really that well versed on this.
Thanks for suggestions!