This Chemistry Thing

[Seriak]

You Alk looks good, if I am reading your chart right. 7 dkh is fine. Mine was around 3 and I had to start dosing to bring it up. It's a little low, but nothing I would worry about.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Seriak

You Alk looks good, if I am reading your chart right. 7 dkh is fine.

Agreed, leave it alone

[Enigma]

Oops.

I forgot to include the info that my Alk has dropped a lot in the last two weeks: from 9 to 7. I'm worried that it is going to continue to drop.

Everything else has really stabilized in the last two weeks. I've backed off on my water changes (doing fewer and less volume) and that seems to have really helped. My mag is still a litter lower than I would like to see, but it has improved (raised) quite significantly.

The improvement in this tank is crazy . . . considering what I've done to it. It is heavily (and temporarily) overstocked right now, as I shut down my Nano Cube due to temperature issues and moved everything into this one. One of the critters in the tank is being very heavily fed, too. It must have 4x the bioload that it should.

If my alk continues to drop . . . at what point do I panic and intervene?

[Cal_stir]

google Balanced calcium and alkalinity, some good reads

[Enigma]

Originally Posted by Cal_stir

google Balanced calcium and alkalinity, some good reads

Thanks!

95% of being able to figure this stuff out is in being to determine the correct search parameters.

This article looks promising:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-06/rhf/index.php