I just did a 3 gallon weekly water change on my 12g nano and figured it was about time to test my Alk and Calcium levels. I use Oceanic salt and know that it is high in calcium but I also have high Alk which is the opposite of what I have heard other users getting from their mix. Here are all of my parameters:
Temp - 80
pH - 8.3
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
Phos - undetectable
Alk - 13 dKH (Seachem) 14dKH (Salifert)
Calc - 580 ppm (SeaChem and Salifert)
The only thing that I dose is kalk for top off every day of a total of 20oz to replace the evaporation. All of my inhabitants seem to fine and are actually growing fairly rapidly. I am mixing 1 1/2 teaspoons per gallon of RO/DI water to make the kalk. Should I lower the amount that I am mixing or maybe just dose every other day? These numbers are high but since the corals/fish/inverts seem to be fine, should I even try to lower the alk and calc? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
Temp - 80
pH - 8.3
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
Phos - undetectable
Alk - 13 dKH (Seachem) 14dKH (Salifert)
Calc - 580 ppm (SeaChem and Salifert)
The only thing that I dose is kalk for top off every day of a total of 20oz to replace the evaporation. All of my inhabitants seem to fine and are actually growing fairly rapidly. I am mixing 1 1/2 teaspoons per gallon of RO/DI water to make the kalk. Should I lower the amount that I am mixing or maybe just dose every other day? These numbers are high but since the corals/fish/inverts seem to be fine, should I even try to lower the alk and calc? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Chris