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12-24-2010, 04:26 AM
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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 .
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12-24-2010, 04:35 AM
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another thing to mention i guess is how are your corals doing in your nano??? if there not showing any damaging signs i wouldnt get to stressed about it and like christy mentioned make sure your tests are accurate and not out of date
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12-24-2010, 04:41 AM
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your pH is fine, not every tank runs at 8.3 mine has run at 8.0 or less for years with no adverse problems and its a full blown reef tank. Turf the hagen alkalinity test kit they're not the most reliable so I wouldn't stress out about a high alk reading (I didn't even think test kits could read that high) I would imagine your alkalinity is probably fine. In fact I would stop and stop testing altogether for now. Regular water changes will keep everything happy and test say in another 3 waterchanges or more. If you don't actually have anything in the tank that requires elevated calcium and alkalinity levels I wouldn't worry about it.
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12-24-2010, 04:48 AM
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The Corals in the 15 are Great.. the Fuzzy mushrooms is Spread right out.. the Zoa's, A few are closed, and one of my other mushrooms are curled up abit.. But no signs that they are going to die by any means!
Christy, I hear ya, But i tested my fresh saltwater and it was 8 drops with the kit.. and when i tested my tank it was 28 drops.. thats what Kinda set me off to figure this all out!
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12-24-2010, 04:50 AM
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But won't a high alk level, stress my fish out?? I do want to get a bigger coral tank.. and i will and just plumb it into the system! but id like to learn why these chemicals do what they do lol.. i was telling a buddy today.. i want a 4 foot purple/blue birdsnest! and I will get it oneday lol!
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12-24-2010, 05:07 AM
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have you tested it more than once ??? if so what things do you add to your tank on a regular basis and how long has it been set upfor??
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12-24-2010, 05:24 AM
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If your using a elos alk test kit then your alk is 14. Its .5 Dkh per drop. Not all that bad considering that your cal and mag are so low. Low cal and mag can cause this. Do not try to adjust for ph! only for alk. Once you have your alk at the right level your ph will find it's own natural balance. Slowly bring your cal and mag up to spec and leave the alk alone until it falls naturally. This may help
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-06/rhf/index.php
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