Hello,
This is my first post so please forgive me if I "mess something up":
I have a 175 gallon (+20 gallon refugium) mixed reef tank (LPS, softies, fish). Below are my current tank parameters
Alkalinity - >14dKH (Red Sea Test Kit)
pH - Fluctuates between 8.0-8.1 (lower at night; American pinpoint monitor)
Calcium - 470 ppm (Red Sea Test Kit)
Specific Gravity 1.022 (working on raising it slightly)
Magnesium - 1220 (Red Sea Test Kit)
Nitrate - <10 ppm (Red Sea Test Kit)
Phosphate - 1 ppm (Red Sea and Salifert) - I know this is too high and I just added GFO to my reactor. Ran Phosguard for a few weeks and didn't seem to work.
Questions
1. My alkalinity is off the charts but everything seems to be doing okay and my calcium levels are acceptable, do I mess with it? I stopped dosing 2 little fishies A+B for the time being to see if it would go down on its own. I also stopped dosing Kent superbuffer dkH (dont think I need this and the 2-part anyway?). I did read that the Kent superbuffer does contain borate which could be throwing of my alkalinity results if it got high enough.
2. Any reason why phosguard wouldn't work? Hopefully GFO in a reactor does the trick. At least my clean up crew is well fed with algae on the glass.
Thanks,
Todd
This is my first post so please forgive me if I "mess something up":
I have a 175 gallon (+20 gallon refugium) mixed reef tank (LPS, softies, fish). Below are my current tank parameters
Alkalinity - >14dKH (Red Sea Test Kit)
pH - Fluctuates between 8.0-8.1 (lower at night; American pinpoint monitor)
Calcium - 470 ppm (Red Sea Test Kit)
Specific Gravity 1.022 (working on raising it slightly)
Magnesium - 1220 (Red Sea Test Kit)
Nitrate - <10 ppm (Red Sea Test Kit)
Phosphate - 1 ppm (Red Sea and Salifert) - I know this is too high and I just added GFO to my reactor. Ran Phosguard for a few weeks and didn't seem to work.
Questions
1. My alkalinity is off the charts but everything seems to be doing okay and my calcium levels are acceptable, do I mess with it? I stopped dosing 2 little fishies A+B for the time being to see if it would go down on its own. I also stopped dosing Kent superbuffer dkH (dont think I need this and the 2-part anyway?). I did read that the Kent superbuffer does contain borate which could be throwing of my alkalinity results if it got high enough.
2. Any reason why phosguard wouldn't work? Hopefully GFO in a reactor does the trick. At least my clean up crew is well fed with algae on the glass.
Thanks,
Todd