PCDS
Active Member
Morning all, I'm sitting here with my coffee so the thread should hopefully get more coherent as it goes on. I added my first few SPS frags to my nano tank on Tuesday. Yesterday morning my Alk was 2.5 Meq/l ( 7 dKH) and like an idiot I added buffer too quickly correcting up to 3.5 Meq/l ( 9.8 dKH) ( there was also a 20l water change. )
I know you are not supposed to correct more than 1.4 dKH per 24 hrs.
Last night the corals seemed okay - could there be a delayed reaction over the next few days?
If as I hope I have this time gotten away with it, I am a little confused about the optimum dKH. In my reading, some times it suggests that with just a few small SPS corals you don't need the dKH to be that high ( but with some thought I am wondering if this is more about dosing needed to correct dKH as small frags are not likely to deplete Ca/Alk that quickly?)
I am not looking for really rapid growth but I do want my SPS corals to thrive. I will probably have more LPS corals than SPS overall ( they are my favourites)
For those of you with SPS corals, could you please tell me what Ca/ Alk levels you keep at?
(The Ca was 450 and the pH was 8.0)
I will do daily checks on Alk and Ca over the next few days to see how much it drops.
I am really excited about this tank and would really appreciate your advice.
I know you are not supposed to correct more than 1.4 dKH per 24 hrs.
Last night the corals seemed okay - could there be a delayed reaction over the next few days?
If as I hope I have this time gotten away with it, I am a little confused about the optimum dKH. In my reading, some times it suggests that with just a few small SPS corals you don't need the dKH to be that high ( but with some thought I am wondering if this is more about dosing needed to correct dKH as small frags are not likely to deplete Ca/Alk that quickly?)
I am not looking for really rapid growth but I do want my SPS corals to thrive. I will probably have more LPS corals than SPS overall ( they are my favourites)
For those of you with SPS corals, could you please tell me what Ca/ Alk levels you keep at?
(The Ca was 450 and the pH was 8.0)
I will do daily checks on Alk and Ca over the next few days to see how much it drops.
I am really excited about this tank and would really appreciate your advice.