Tonynlo
New member
Issue:
Coral was looking a bit sad :worried:. Turns out, I had a bad test kit. Borrowed a friends kit and tested alk last night, the level was at 6.1. I'm a routine water changer (12%-13% per week [22gallon brute]) plus top off with kalk. I have 180 gallons of volume and only enough coral to stock a 40 IMO. I cant believe how low it dropped. I use reef crystals.
Plan:
I plan to bring the alk up about 1 dKH per day. My dosing pump is 1.1ml/hr (i've tested it to be accurate as well) so in order to hit the 600ml mark I would need about 545 minutes of dripping. What I plan to do is run my dosing pump for 2 hours a night @ 30 minute intervals with an hour break in between. After the 5th night, I hope be back on par.
Question
Being new to this situation, I'm not sure if this will work or if any other parameters will be thrown our of wack. Does this plan appear to be thought out enough? Is anything going to happen to mg while doing this? What type of issues should I look for?
I'll be testing my water at about 7AM and 7PM daily until stable.
Coral was looking a bit sad :worried:. Turns out, I had a bad test kit. Borrowed a friends kit and tested alk last night, the level was at 6.1. I'm a routine water changer (12%-13% per week [22gallon brute]) plus top off with kalk. I have 180 gallons of volume and only enough coral to stock a 40 IMO. I cant believe how low it dropped. I use reef crystals.
Plan:
I plan to bring the alk up about 1 dKH per day. My dosing pump is 1.1ml/hr (i've tested it to be accurate as well) so in order to hit the 600ml mark I would need about 545 minutes of dripping. What I plan to do is run my dosing pump for 2 hours a night @ 30 minute intervals with an hour break in between. After the 5th night, I hope be back on par.
Question
Being new to this situation, I'm not sure if this will work or if any other parameters will be thrown our of wack. Does this plan appear to be thought out enough? Is anything going to happen to mg while doing this? What type of issues should I look for?
I'll be testing my water at about 7AM and 7PM daily until stable.