water params for softies

[Justin/TiV]

I'm thinking about switching back to softies...I have a sps tank now with one rock of gsp, and one frogspawn. The rest is sps.

anyway, I'm getting tired of trying to get my reactor working correctly, and getting stuff to color up and stay that way blah, blah...

with my salt I get upper 300's in calcium, about 7 dkh alk. and 1230 mag.

I was thinking about selling my sps, and reactor. Are these params I'm getting with my salt good enough to have success with softie and lps?? I also have 3 250w MH over the tank.

 

[DiViNeLeFT]

my 29g consists of all soft corals, mushrooms, and zoas... i dont do anything for calcium or alk other than weekly waterchanges and everything is doing great... ive noticed good growth in every coral. ive been meaning to get some calcium and alkalinity test kits and a method to suppliment them but the waterchanges seem to do fine until i get some more demanding corals.

 

[Justin/TiV]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8374284#post8374284 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DiViNeLeFT
my 29g consists of all soft corals, mushrooms, and zoas... i dont do anything for calcium or alk other than weekly waterchanges and everything is doing great... ive noticed good growth in every coral. ive been meaning to get some calcium and alkalinity test kits and a method to suppliment them but the waterchanges seem to do fine until i get some more demanding corals.

thanx for replying. What salt to you use...whats your sg ?

I mean....I have a tank with acros in it now, and it's doing pretty good, so I don't know why I'm worried about softies. But I've focused all my research and learning based on sps, so I'm just wondering whats up

thanx again

 

[DiViNeLeFT]

i keep my SG at 1.025... i use reef crystals. also i tend to slack on water changes... ive been known to push the "weekly" to once every other week or so.

 

[Justin/TiV]

right on...I use 50/50 IO and Oceanic. I'm also pretty religious on water changes, sometimes I'm a day late...

 

[HornetMech242]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8374284#post8374284 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DiViNeLeFT
my 29g consists of all soft corals, mushrooms, and zoas... i dont do anything for calcium or alk other than weekly waterchanges and everything is doing great... ive noticed good growth in every coral. ive been meaning to get some calcium and alkalinity test kits and a method to suppliment them but the waterchanges seem to do fine until i get some more demanding corals.

Without test kits you would be amazed how far something can be out and the corals not show it. I have a 26G and i did was doing the same routine and it turned out my calsium was 150 lower than it should of been. After i tested it i got supplements and kept it up with the Dkh and the growth picked up alot.

Chris