LoJack's 144 Gallon Reef

[LoJack]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

You've had some fantastic growth!


Anyway I'm med jelly over your rock structure. I'm about 3 inches away from ripping apart my rocks cape to make it look more like yours!

The growth I'm quite happy with … however you wouldn't suspect good growth with where I keep my levels.

I just tested again tonight, because I'm trying to slowly raise them

Alk - 7.7 dKh
Cal - 410
Mag - 1400

I added approx 300 ml of calcium chloride solution manually to jump my calcium up about 20 ppm … and then added approx 30 minutes to both doser's over the course of 24 hours.

Should equate to an extra 35ml each of Alk and Cal. I keep testing daily until I see the number plateau.

My target params are Calcium of 440 and Alk of about 8.5 and then stabilize them so that they never move. Seems to me you have less issues with Alk related problems when you keep your Alk on the lower side of the acceptable range.

EDIT: And thanks about the aquascape … It's quite the compliment, I really like it as well. But like Doug pointed out in a different thread about aquascaping … this is more for aesthetics and less for practicality. Not a lot of caves for fish. They make do, but I'm sure they'd be happier with more protection at night.