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Reef Pilot · #1 05-08-2014, 01:06 AM

Also... hope it is not your cowfish getting a taste of your corals, and then chewing on the SPS tips when he gets hungry...

reefwars · #2 05-08-2014, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

why would "sps guys" purposly keep a low alk tank, alk is one of the main building blocks in coral growth, if anything we would tand to keep it higher.

I agree with Brad, that swing over weeks isn't a factor, but what was you max alk level or do you know. I have seen big tanks done in by Alk burn but it wasn't realy fromt he level just going to high, but rather the Alk up powder not being mixed properly and landing on the corals. kinda looks like the tips start to melt and get stringy. I tried to find some pictures of the sump/dosing set up you have to see the locations you add your stuff, but couldn't find any. you young kids put so much stuff into your tanks now days it makes it hard anyways, GFO, Bioballs, ect....

also another thing is temp, it will do the same thing, have you had any spikes laitly? here is a pic of what temp did to my tank years ago

it started out with just the tips like an Alk burn then the rest started slughing off here was the end result.

this bucket is 24" accross

this one is 36" accross

Steve

by low i mean 7-8 obviously not 4 or 5

when running bio pellets or even zeolites(ULNS) it is better to keep it lower

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Originally Posted by Randy Holmes-Farley

Some people with ULNS systems, like zeovit, find their corals sensitive to high alkalinity, but that is not necessarily an aspect of all carbon dosing.

StirCrazy · #3 05-09-2014, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by reefwars

by low i mean 7-8 obviously not 4 or 5

when running bio pellets or even zeolites(ULNS) it is better to keep it lower

ahh, ok, I never ran any of that fancy stuff

used to keep my alk 9 -11 ish

Steve

Delphinus · #4 05-09-2014, 04:19 AM

Have you ever tested with that test kit before?

I remember once panicking over a so-called ammonia test reading when I was chasing weirdness but over time realized that the particular test kit I used never gave a reading under 0.1 or something.

Do you have a nitrite test kit that you trust? I would test for that rather than ammonia.

Honestly you shouldn't be having an ammonia spike unless something really big died in there. I don't think you have that.