alright - I'm stumped on this. Tank is 3 months old, PH is between 8.1-8.2, Salt is at 33, MG is 1240, Calcium is 480 and Alk keeps creeping from 11 into the 12's. It got as high as 14, with Ca and Mg relatively the same. If I do a 30% water change, Alk drops some, I was able to drop it from the 14 to 11 by doing day after day changes. I put in a DOS and setup auto water changes, started at 5gal a day, then with Alk creeping up, I bumped it to 20, still no slowing the alk creep. I switched from IO to Red Sea their blue bucket so alk tests at 8 in a fresh batch. Where as the IO was testing at 11dkh.
the only dosing I'm doing is for NO3O4-X.
It is a mixed tank - however everything is fairly new, I haven't lost anything yet, but really don't want to either.
Any thoughts or expert advice? My local store is stumped and I'd like to be able to take a work trip or two and not be thinking about water chemistry when I should be focused on customers tech.
the only dosing I'm doing is for NO3O4-X.
It is a mixed tank - however everything is fairly new, I haven't lost anything yet, but really don't want to either.
Any thoughts or expert advice? My local store is stumped and I'd like to be able to take a work trip or two and not be thinking about water chemistry when I should be focused on customers tech.