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@FraghouseCorals - what do you keep your salinity and Alk at? Thinking of buying some sticks from this sale but I'm new to sticks and don't want to kill 'em. My Alk range is 9.1 - 8.3. Do I need to acclimate acros?
 

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@FraghouseCorals - what do you keep your salinity and Alk at? Thinking of buying some sticks from this sale but I'm new to sticks and don't want to kill 'em. My Alk range is 9.1 - 8.3. Do I need to acclimate acros?
8.3-9.1 is a fairly large range. over what time do you let it fluctuate that much? for example, i keep mine 7.4-7.5 day to day. the goal should always be to keep alk as stable as possible its generally the one thing that can stress sps the most
 
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@FraghouseCorals - what do you keep your salinity and Alk at? Thinking of buying some sticks from this sale but I'm new to sticks and don't want to kill 'em. My Alk range is 9.1 - 8.3. Do I need to acclimate acros?
I do 1.025 and let it drift to 1.026 from dosing then knock it back to 1.025. ALK we target 7.8-8.0 :)
 

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8.3-9.1 is a fairly large range. over what time do you let it fluctuate that much? for example, i keep mine 7.4-7.5 day to day. the goal should always be to keep alk as stable as possible its generally the one thing that can stress sps the most

It drops from 9.1 to 8.3 in seven days time. I've started dosing All-For-Reef every other day and the number has stayed closer to the high 8's. Problem is my salt. A water change will usually raise the Alk (Red Sea Pro). I'm thinking of switching to the blue bucket.
 

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It drops from 9.1 to 8.3 in seven days time. I've started dosing All-For-Reef every other day and the number has stayed closer to the high 8's. Problem is my salt. A water change will usually raise the Alk (Red Sea Pro). I'm thinking of switching to the blue bucket.
Ah okay. that’s not too bad just a normal drift down. If it were me I’d try to get the dosing dialed in so it didnt fluctuate much day to day. Blue bucket is good! The best advice I ever got from a fellow hobbyist is to pick an alk that your tank likes and switch to a salt that mixes approximately at that level. that way you aren’t constantly chasing numbers. Made my life way easier to swap salts and then water changes do some of the correcting for me
 

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This is post Dino's and pre defeating my algae issue, but it's still a full tank photo. I actually do have fish in the tank...LOL!!!

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@billdg gratz on beating dino. I beat it a few months back and definitely wiped out a good chunk of my sps I transferred from my old tank.
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I will likely splurge and spend far more that I need to...LOL!!! What are you willing to go thru and spend to get what you want?
 

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Ah okay. that’s not too bad just a normal drift down. If it were me I’d try to get the dosing dialed in so it didnt fluctuate much day to day. Blue bucket is good! The best advice I ever got from a fellow hobbyist is to pick an alk that your tank likes and switch to a salt that mixes approximately at that level. that way you aren’t constantly chasing numbers. Made my life way easier to swap salts and then water changes do some of the correcting for me

That's the same advice I got from my LFS (CaliKid Corals). My tank is happiest in the 9 dkh range. The drawback is that water change pumps the Alk up to 10~ish. I've managed to keep in the 8.5 - 9 range with dosing AFR every other day, but again, the water change with Coral Pro is the wildcard. The blue bucket should make it easier to keep in the high 8's - 9.
 

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Heck yeah! Time to go broke....again!!
Looking for MB WD and SC OP this go around! Hey Brandon do you by chance have any Candlelight Acropora available? I know it's an older one, it was my first real sps back in the day and I'm looking for it again. Can't wait for the .

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Nice nano.
 

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