SPS Bleached

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

How come your alkalinity is so high? Are you dosing something for alkalinity? what type of salt are you using?

You just have to keep in mind that with very low level of nutriment it is a risk to have RTN or STN when you have such high alkalinity. It is not safe to keep your alkalinity so high.

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It's high just for fun, as far as I can tell. It's always been high. I even run zeo and have very little nutrient. I supplement with a Ca reactor and use RBS salt. It's been like that for 16 months, so I'm not too worried about the perceived dangers of high alk. I did read on the Internet that it's bad, but you can't believe everything on the Internet. Nasty place, that Internet.
Only RTN I've had was yesterday, and that probably had a lot to do with the frag falling into my torch coral

[reefwars]

im not anal over my parameters these days the way i see it is all my corals are doing well both sps and lps , im doing regular water changes equipment is good so why fix it if its working well.

even with high " nutriments" my sps are doing well i would also second that it was prob a acclimation issue of just not taking the move well give it another try

[daniella3d]

huh...I was talking to nanomano, not to you. You know the risk of running with high alkalinity and low nutriment, then you do what you want

I know it's all over the net but I beleive it because I have very experienced people telling me about it and I do beleive them because some of them have 30 years of experience in saltwater and a lot of them with corals.

I also know a lot of people who did have RTN and STN all the time running alkalinity higher than 10 with low nutriment, and that resolved when they lower the alkalinity.

You might just be lucky It is a risk, so once people know about it, they do what they want.

Originally Posted by Aquattro

It's high just for fun, as far as I can tell. It's always been high. I even run zeo and have very little nutrient. I supplement with a Ca reactor and use RBS salt. It's been like that for 16 months, so I'm not too worried about the perceived dangers of high alk. I did read on the Internet that it's bad, but you can't believe everything on the Internet. Nasty place, that Internet.
Only RTN I've had was yesterday, and that probably had a lot to do with the frag falling into my torch coral

[Nano]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

huh...I was talking to nanomano, not to you. You know the risk of running with high alkalinity and low nutriment, then you do what you want

I know it's all over the net but I beleive it because I have very experienced people telling me about it and I do beleive them because some of them have 30 years of experience in saltwater and a lot of them with corals.

I also know a lot of people who did have RTN and STN all the time running alkalinity higher than 10 with low nutriment, and that resolved when they lower the alkalinity.

You might just be lucky It is a risk, so once people know about it, they do what they want.

wow I went to bed and you guys have taught me a lot here! not to sure why the alk is high, it always has been, with lower CA. hopefully it balances out

[daniella3d]

Here is a thread on Reef Central where people discus the effect of high alkalinity with different setup. It is interesting to read about all these people experiences:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...readid=1297225

Originally Posted by nanomano

wow I went to bed and you guys have taught me a lot here! not to sure why the alk is high, it always has been, with lower CA. hopefully it balances out

[Myka]

Daniella is right about low nutrients and high alkalinity, but that is more of an issue with ultra low nutrients when carbon dosing. That's why you see Zeovit recommending 7 dKH.

For the newbies, carbon dosing is not the carbon you put in the filter.

[MMAX]

Now now daniella, no need to get worked up.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

huh...I was talking to nanomano, not to you.

That hurts....

[daniella3d]

sorry I was just trying to correct a misunderstanding, not to be rude

I know I often sound rude, just not intentional!

Originally Posted by Aquattro

That hurts....

[Nano]

so today everything in my tank looks p*ssed at me. inverts and fish are all fine, but here are my params after dosing a small amount of CA to the tank yesterday.

nitrates and nitrites 0
ammonia 0
phos 0
CA 440 <finally..
KH(alk) 13? mind you in my old tank it was 17dkh and everything was fine
ph 8.2
Salinity 1.026

nothing is open it my tank for polyps today... I added carbon and chemipure elite yesterday, but just a small amount. any Ideas? aside from the Alk, I know its high, but like I said it always has been high with no major concerns on the corals behalf