Sps brown out

[Scorpius]

So 3 weeks in 2 dosing amino acids and feeding heavier colors turning a little darker again. I'm also dosing 2 part A & B from Kent Marine trying to bring all my levels up slowly calcium is at 400 mag 1280 alk 7.5

Glad to see your corals regaining their color. It's a great feeling to make things better. :celeb1:

 

[rovster]

Low mag will make it very hard to get you Alk and Calc levels where they need to be so make sure you raise it to around 1350. As far as PO4 you need just a little bit of it. Bubble algae like Rovster said will grow anywhere. It's a royal PITA if allowed to take hold. So don't go by that with you PO4. After everything is back level and if you have enough corals specifically sps you will have Mag consumption so likely you'd have to dose if WCs can't keep up. Some systems use more some systems use less. I have to dose a fair amount of. Mag I've found out. Glad the coral is doing better.

This. And like was said above. Magnesium has to be in line first! THEN add Ca and Alk in equal proportions until your alk is where you want it and stable. If your Ca and Alk are way off balance you can dose a little more to get in line but once there, two parts are intended to be used in a balanced manner. You'll go nuts trying to balance independently. I don't even check Ca regularly, just Alk. Hope this helps.

 

[knukles55]

Very good glad I've learned something new today on water chemistry lol will be buying some more chemicals