Hello all,
I'm fairly new to this board, but I have a question for you...
Last month I went out of town for 3 weeks and left my 1 year old reef tank in care of my daughter. She did a pretty good job considering she really had no clue about water parameters, etc. I gave her a program to follow that had kept the tank stable for over 9 months.
However, I failed to consider that a few weeks prior to leaving I had added several new corals.
When I returned I found the alkalinity had fallen from 9.9 dKH to 5.4 dKH (3.54 to 1.94 meq/l) and the calcium dropped from 415 to 275. I didn't think that was too big of a problem, and successfully raised the alk up to 3.83 over several days. The calcium is rising slowly (see below).
Now...since then I stepped up my Seachem Reef Builder to twice a week, trying to maintain the alkalinity. But here are the numbers:
(meq/l) (dKH) (Ca)
7/9/01 3.83 10.75 325
7/15/01 3.37 9.45 295
7/21/01 2.86 8.0 335
7/24/01 2.74 7.7 345
7/28/01 2.29 6.4 355
Should I just continue to increase the Reef Builder dosing or am I missing something here and am about to wreak havoc on my tank?
I'd appreciate any input you might have...
Thanks,
Ed
Here are my tank specs:
Ed's Reef Tank Specifications
[ 07-28-2001: Message edited by: DaktariEd ]
