Proper Alk Level?
- Thread starter Chris5
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- Redlands, California
That Alk. level is fine. I try and keep mine around 10.5 dkh.
- Location
- Wallingford, CT
When you keep your alk levels very high (11+ DKH), you will probably promote faster growth in SPS corals but you will also calcify your pumps much quicker and will need to do more maintenace more often. NSL is about 7-8 DKH, for a closed system, 8-10 DKH should be fine.
first you have to determine weather your readings are meq/l or dkh. i read that if you want good growth on you corals (sps) you should keep your alk alittle high like around 10dkh. 8.9dkh is more around the normal alk readings when you mean low what reading are you talking about.Chris5 said:
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- The Big City
Chris
Go to Randy's site and read all the material and links on Cal & Alk. This should help you alot and answer alot of your questions.
Cal & Alk
Cal & Alk have a relationship that need to be keep in-line for everything to work as your corals use both Cal & Alk. Also what are your other reading likes Nitrates, SG level and temp.
Michael
Go to Randy's site and read all the material and links on Cal & Alk. This should help you alot and answer alot of your questions.
Cal & Alk
Cal & Alk have a relationship that need to be keep in-line for everything to work as your corals use both Cal & Alk. Also what are your other reading likes Nitrates, SG level and temp.
Michael
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Well I did have all leathers and mushrooms, but after a week of recovering from the transfer they all closed up and never came back out, so i gave them temp to a friend with a more established tank....I am using PCs for the 65g water paramters like nitrate, nitrite, alk, ca, ph etc... tested for and nothing seems out of the ordinary...using overflow/sump with 780gph with 3 power heads....temp maintains at 78 and salinity at 30 or 1.022
Daceman89 said:
Well I did have all leathers and mushrooms, but after a week of recovering from the transfer they all closed up and never came back out, so i gave them temp to a friend with a more established tank....I am using PCs for the 65g water paramters like nitrate, nitrite, alk, ca, ph etc... tested for and nothing seems out of the ordinary...using overflow/sump with 780gph with 3 power heads....temp maintains at 78 and salinity at 30 or 1.022
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- The Big City
Chris
You just transferred all your corals and things over from a smaller tank to a larger tank you have to except some time before everything gets backs to normal. Just take your time and let everything settle and then start to add some corals and see how they do before placing more into the tank.
Michael
You just transferred all your corals and things over from a smaller tank to a larger tank you have to except some time before everything gets backs to normal. Just take your time and let everything settle and then start to add some corals and see how they do before placing more into the tank.
Michael
- Location
- The Big City
Alot of it depends on how big the upgrade is, the quality of live rock and sand or no sand. All these things play apart and some people get luck while others go through a mini-cycle or other problems like hair algae and such.
- Location
- The Big City
Well there you go. Just give it some time keep checking your levels and maybe do a water change or two. Once everything seems to be fine place one of your coral back in, something hardy like a mushroom, and see if it does ok. At that point you should be on your way.
Remember your tank is alot bigger than what you had before and you now have a much larger bio-load and a need for a larger filter.
Remember your tank is alot bigger than what you had before and you now have a much larger bio-load and a need for a larger filter.
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