surfnvb7
Premium Member
saw a couple of you talking about alkalinity in your tanks adding to the effectiveness in keeping better colors in your zoas.
can everyone chime in and say what they keep their dKH at? and how they maintain their levels?
as of right now, i dose via the cheap grad student method. box of baking soda from the store in a moisture tight container. dose about 1-2tsp every 2 days or so that i mix in with some fresh top off water. i usually keep my dkH around 10. but am trying out 9 to see if i can get some better results after noticing some recession on my acros. lately mine is fluctuating a bit more than it used to last year b/c i'm not on top of my top offs like i should be. so it probably bounces around from 7 to 10dkH.
i also have alot more alkalinity usage than in your average zoa tank. i have a fair amount of sps (about +50%) in my tank now since i kinda got bit by the sps frag bug recently. i am currently undergoing counseling and treatment, and will be ridded of some of the more boring sps relatively soon to make more room for my zoas
on the next tank i'm going to be setting up over the summer, i would like to plan on getting a litermeter and just dosing concentrated solutions. that is a pretty cheap method (except the dosing pump of course) and is pretty darn accurate, without shifts in pH etc.
can everyone chime in and say what they keep their dKH at? and how they maintain their levels?
as of right now, i dose via the cheap grad student method. box of baking soda from the store in a moisture tight container. dose about 1-2tsp every 2 days or so that i mix in with some fresh top off water. i usually keep my dkH around 10. but am trying out 9 to see if i can get some better results after noticing some recession on my acros. lately mine is fluctuating a bit more than it used to last year b/c i'm not on top of my top offs like i should be. so it probably bounces around from 7 to 10dkH.
i also have alot more alkalinity usage than in your average zoa tank. i have a fair amount of sps (about +50%) in my tank now since i kinda got bit by the sps frag bug recently. i am currently undergoing counseling and treatment, and will be ridded of some of the more boring sps relatively soon to make more room for my zoas
on the next tank i'm going to be setting up over the summer, i would like to plan on getting a litermeter and just dosing concentrated solutions. that is a pretty cheap method (except the dosing pump of course) and is pretty darn accurate, without shifts in pH etc.
