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Originally Posted by RyanJ
The 15g thats attached is a Coral tank, Has some zoa and mushrooms, I have a 150WHQI on it, Im trying to get things right, and Learn what I am doing wrong, so when i wanna put corals in the other tank, I will not kill them all lol! Plus.. isnt a hobby to keep yourself busy.. I am trying to make it right, and keep it that way! but its much harder then I thought!
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its not hard at all i think your thinking about it to much first off lots of water changes...everynight do a little water change. next dont add anything to your tank that will change your water parameters. you need to find out where your tank is sitting at naturally and what it uses before you can dose anything.
get test kits for everything you can think of but mainly nitrate,phosphates,calcium,magnesium,alkalinity,am onia.
if your mag is high you can use epson salts to bring it down if its low water changes will bring it back up again but alot of salts are relatively low in mag so you may want to have some on hand to bring it up.
your calcium and alkalinity are hand in hand so if ones off or way out of whack the other may be as well so if you bring one up too fast or down to fast the other will feel its effects.
it will take some time to bring them all together but water changes is a good place to start and once your levels are stable then you can start trying to fix other problems but keep in mind everything you add has an effec t on something else .