alk spike

Quick backstory, I have a 32 gallon biocube that's been running for about a year and a half now. I have been coasting well with weekly 5 gallon water changes and given the tank has looked great I had not tested the water for about 2 months. I was preparing to add a new fish and decided to test...

Hi all. Looking for some advice on Alkalinity. My Alk is rising without any dosing. I usually keep my tank from 8-8.4 dkh but it’s rising to 10.5 dkh since 9 November 23. I am not dosing anything. I have turned off doser and taken the dosing lines out. My tank is set up since mid...

Hi all Need some advice at the moment im stressing. Of course things happen when your away. Im on a week cruise and wont be back till. This sunday. So woke up this morning to my apex sending an alarm. Alk had risen too 11dkh. I checked the fusion app and under history the dos doser was set...

Hello, my tank has been running for about 5 months I transfer all my corals to the new tank about two months ago. I’m dosing All For Reef to keep up my alk but I have been testing this past week and its reading 9.8-10.0 dKH, seeing my records it seems like when I was dosing more my Alk was...

Howdy fellow reefers! I need some assistance: I have a 89g Redsea Reefer (Total Column is 112g) that is about 8m old. At month ~4 (Feb/March '23), the Alk suddenly spiked at >20 overnight. I was dosing insane amounts of Alk to keep up with all the frags I had in there, then out of nowhere it...

Ok so my Alk has always been high since day 1 when I got my trident but it hasn't gone down and ive tried 3 different types of salt and this last one made my alk reach 13.3 on my trident which is the highest its ever been and it keeps going up as I do daily water changes with my Dos through my...

ok so my alk was sitting at 9 but then i switched to rodi then my tank got cloudy i thought it was a bacteria bloom but as i was testing my water i could my alk at 12 and i know that alk swing can sometimes cause cloudy water and plus my candy cane coral was not as puffy as it was so is there...

Hi all, I recently switched to Fritz RPM since the parameters seemed balanced and a little more conservative than where I was running the tank. I've been a little WC-happy lately, doing 30% changes basically whenever I have the chance. I foolishly did not check the alk on the new water...