Going on Vacation is so stressful

[reefermadness]

Originally Posted by sphelps

I don't your think your tank will drop down to 3 dkh in what I assume to be less than a week. It's certainly not a linear relationship and your corals don't just suck a certain amount of calcium and alkalinity not matter what is available. Your levels will be low when you return but not deadly as you assume. Your pH controller should also prevent your other scenario, even if I opened my needle valve all the way the pH in the reactor would still not drop that low before shutting off the CO2 off and then it would simply stay off or longer, how you can dump 20lbs into it is beyond me.

Anyways just something to consider for next time, I've had a fully stocked SPS tank before that ran on a CA reactor that required more attention than I was comfortable giving a tank sitter. I would shut the CO2 off before I left and adjust levels when I returned. Even after two weeks nothing was critical.

1dkh a day over a week will add up and is going to be pretty linear till the corals are stressed...IMO.

I wouldnt leave my tank with out alk,ca supplementation for a week with out being worried crap less. I would pretty much assume that it was going to be bad....real bad.

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by reefermadness

1dkh a day over a week will add up and is going to be pretty linear till the corals are stressed...IMO.

I wouldnt leave my tank with out alk,ca supplementation for a week with out being worried crap less. I would pretty much assume that it was going to be bad....real bad.

Well I guess every system is different but that has certainly never been my experience. My reactor now seems to run flawlessly but my previous one would always get clogged and often not add anything to the tank for a few days before I noticed, I couldn't imagine having a system so sensitive that it would crash if everything wasn't perfect. No wonder you can't relax, I guess some people shouldn't go on vacation

[reefermadness]

Originally Posted by sphelps

Well I guess every system is different but that has certainly never been my experience. My reactor now seems to run flawlessly but my previous one would always get clogged and often not add anything to the tank for a few days before I noticed, I couldn't imagine having a system so sensitive that it would crash if everything wasn't perfect. No wonder you can't relax, I guess some people shouldn't go on vacation

If you a have nice beautiful SPS tank.....I guess you don't have a choice.

Perfect is nice by the way......and yes I take vacations. In fact
no one looks at my tank for a week.