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Old 02-11-2014, 10:27 PM
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Sorry to hear about this trouble. Messing with parameters will do this. You should be testing daily when setting up a new doser. You should also test, add a measured amount of dry suppliment, wait an hour, test again. Do this for calcium, alkalinity, magnesium, and potassium (if you dose it). This way you know how much a tbsp (or what have you) will raise each parameter. Then when figuring out your doser you can test, add supplements to bump it up to where it should be, test again to check. Bump the doser up a smidge depending how much supplement you had to add. Test again tomorrow. After awhile you will be testing, dosing, and adjusting the parameters every 2 days, then 4 days, then once a week. Some months down the road you might be able to test once every 2-4 weeks. Test LOTS, and try to keep things stable.
Yea I did notice when I started to raise my alk/cal I had to pour it all at once but as slow as I can since I didn't har a doser set up at that time and I did notice my sps losing color. It's steady 16x a day now cal in daytime and alk night time and I do test param 1-2hr after or the next day. I still do pour mag by hand tho around 3-4 tea spoon of seachems mag buffer daily. Mybe I should raise mag less often?
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Old 02-13-2014, 05:00 AM
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all turned light greenish rtn style except the smaller of the 1/3 of the colony survived =( a few small frag clipping i took off the colony turned fully bleached white... will this recover in low light or a toss out?
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Old 02-13-2014, 06:59 AM
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The white is 50/50 wait n see...
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