- Location
- Howell, NJ
hey guys i have a really good question that ive been trying to fix myself but i cant seem to do it....
as all of you know i started my tank about a month and 1/2 ago... i used 2 buckets of esv sand and i am dosing at 40 with the nautilus II doser... which equals 280 ml per day... this is crazy... my alk is staying stable at 9.3 and my calcium if i leave it on the doser will raise within a couple of days to 500...
my question is what gives that this tank is taking up so much alkalinity.... i never used to dose this much in my 75 gallon and i had alot more corals in it..
here are some things that i do...
i used 2 buckets of the esv fine grade sand
run phosar (like phosban)
run carbon (tlf hydrocarbon)
ball of cheato
plenty of flow 2 x tunze 6100's on a multicontroller
my levels
ph 8.2
temp 78-81
salinity 1.026
nitrates below 5....
some of the sand did clump in some areas
i was dosing the alk into the refugium part of the sump which i now moved to the return part of the sump to see if maybe that did anything which it didnt... there was very little residual on one of my heaters which is in the refugium part of the sump as well... any ideas would greatly be appreciated cause im out of em... theres no way this tank should be taken up so much alk a day after this amount of time...
my guess would of been the sand but i dun think so...
again any help would be greatly appreciated...
thanks guyz..
as all of you know i started my tank about a month and 1/2 ago... i used 2 buckets of esv sand and i am dosing at 40 with the nautilus II doser... which equals 280 ml per day... this is crazy... my alk is staying stable at 9.3 and my calcium if i leave it on the doser will raise within a couple of days to 500...
my question is what gives that this tank is taking up so much alkalinity.... i never used to dose this much in my 75 gallon and i had alot more corals in it..
here are some things that i do...
i used 2 buckets of the esv fine grade sand
run phosar (like phosban)
run carbon (tlf hydrocarbon)
ball of cheato
plenty of flow 2 x tunze 6100's on a multicontroller
my levels
ph 8.2
temp 78-81
salinity 1.026
nitrates below 5....
some of the sand did clump in some areas
i was dosing the alk into the refugium part of the sump which i now moved to the return part of the sump to see if maybe that did anything which it didnt... there was very little residual on one of my heaters which is in the refugium part of the sump as well... any ideas would greatly be appreciated cause im out of em... theres no way this tank should be taken up so much alk a day after this amount of time...
my guess would of been the sand but i dun think so...
again any help would be greatly appreciated...
thanks guyz..