agreed! the fish are a friends ive had for the last 3 weeks when we had rolling blackouts. once they are gone ill grab a chromis or something to keep the QT tank alive.
I have been having trouble keeping sps, and decided to dive into figuring it out. At the time i had no mag test kit and only alk/cal/phos and the normal api kit.
so i did a alk test and got 7.7, and cal was at 524ppm. picked up alkaline 8.3-p and dosed what i thought was .36ppm per gallon or 35ml of this solution. (half the suggested max) well three days later i did another check and found to be off the scale of my kit (15+ dkh). got in touch with a friend, did a 20G waterchange the next morning and took some water to the lfs
Mixed water came to
1.025
77F
cal 551ppm
8.5 dkh
So after doing the WC and testing at the store i got 8.3 dkh... WHEW! that was a good sign. when i got home i did a mag test with the new kit, found i was at 1050ppm, so i dosed 20lm solution last night.
so forward to today (test at the store was last night) i did a Mag test and found i went up to 1110ppm, so getting there. I decided to dose 40ml solution, and should see 1230ppm mag by tomorrow.
as for alk, i tested it today, and found 8.2 dkh. ok, its dropping slightly, NBD so i added 2ml solution, to see what it will do (im trying to get a baseline with my solution that ive mixed and this new product)
So that was my mon/tuesday. along with a few new corals that ill get pics of shortly. my mixed water cal is high as theres around +/-80ppm cal in the RO water, so im looking into a RODI unit for our house. MaxCap180gpd is on my hit list.
and my end goal with a bit of sps on top
