No Luck with LPS corals.

[Reef Bass]

I'm hoping you left out a digit on your last salinty test results. If by 1.02 you mean 1.020, then that's a big drop.

If that is a typo, then yes, your numbers are dialing in. Good job with your testing and tracking of your results.

The interesting thing I see in the last set of numbers of your nitrates dropping to zero and your phosphates to .03. There seems to be a signficant shift there. 5 nitrates is not bad and maybe even ok. Getting your phosphates down from .25 to .03 on Hannah is very good.

Your most out of line value I see in your reported results is now your pH (assuming your salinity was misreported). 8.1-8.3 is preferred. I've not had to deal with low pH, as mine was always over 8 as a result of using Randy's 2 part dosing recipe, and in fact I've switched over to his other recipe that doesn't buffer the pH slightly upwards. I think kalkwasser is an easy way to bump it up some, though you might want to research.

Sk8r's advice about not mixing softies and stonies might be the next thing to try if things don't improve in the next month or so.

 

[Sacohen]

Yes that last salinity is a typo. I left a # out in the spreadsheet.
It should be Salinity 1.026.

Yeah I thought the pH was low. I have some SeaChem ReefBuffer, but when I used it in February, my #'s on 2/23 came up to 8.0, but my Mag was very high so I stopped using it.
Directions were to add it daily until it came to 8.0 and then use once a month if I remember correctly and I can't remember the exact amount right now I think it was 1 ml per 10 gal. I figure my 55 with sump only has about 50 gallons of water due to rock displacement.