Roskoreefs 184G Reef

[Myka]

That wild Acro is purdy! I think you're going to get green polyps if anything.

[Roskoreef]

K sweet thanks, i was afraid of raising alk too quickly

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Roskoreef

K sweet thanks, i was afraid of raising alk too quickly

Most people are raising alk in ten mins from 5 to 7 is likely harmful spreading it out over a day or two will be fine and dose them in larger doses , your still going to have to find out your daily consumption and get that fixed for the doser but don't use the doser to raise the tank by 2 dKH you have to remember about consumption so you'd have to set the doser pretty darn high lol

[reefwars]

If you need to find out how much bicarbonate to dissolve , go to a reef calculator like the one on brs, add your water volume, current level and desired level and choose dry sodium bicarbonate crystals and It will tell you how many grams it takes to raise the tank , then since your raising around 2dkh divide that number by 2 to split the dose in half or by 4 if you want to raise it by 0.5 dKH a day roughly

[riceboy]

I'm currently at 125ml daily and that's with a restart lol. Before I restarted the tank I was pushing about 175ml daily and 200mb of calcium. Do what denny said and go to bulk reef supply calculator. Figure how much alk your using daily and what your aiming for. Not that since you are using zeo I have notice that with zeovit reactors and zeolites you tend to use less carbonate so monitor that closely. each time when I changed the zeolites I would have to retest and lower my daily carbonate dosing then slowly increase as the bacteria builds. Same goes for potassium. Zeobit seems to love potassium.

[Roskoreef]

finally got a plastic solenoid in the mail from the states, tomorrow i plan to return to my plans to automate my nsw bucket to refill on its own and stop water changes until i have added salt to the new ro.





new sailfin tang..