My alk seems to be bouncing between 9-10dkh when my goal is around 8-8.5. I made a post about alk rising on it’s own so understand a little about reasons why that is happening.
-not dosing anything that adds alk
-no calcium reactor
-haven’t been doing any water changes l
-slowly dosing elimiphos via ATO to slowly lower po4 to 0.15ish from close to 0.4
-recently dosed mag to almost 1400 from just under 1300
-Nitrates are around 35, going to be lowering them via waterchanges once my airstone comes in and pick up muriatic acid for NSW (to slowly start lowering alk via water changes)
-only coral in my tank at the moment is gsp (been trying to keep really cheap acros multiple times and they always STN)
-my tank is now 2 years old
So without chasing numbers I am trying to get all my parameters stable so I can try SPS again. My only challenging parameter I would say is alkalinity. Given everything I stated, how do I keep my alk stable and not fluctuating so I can keep SPS?
-not dosing anything that adds alk
-no calcium reactor
-haven’t been doing any water changes l
-slowly dosing elimiphos via ATO to slowly lower po4 to 0.15ish from close to 0.4
-recently dosed mag to almost 1400 from just under 1300
-Nitrates are around 35, going to be lowering them via waterchanges once my airstone comes in and pick up muriatic acid for NSW (to slowly start lowering alk via water changes)
-only coral in my tank at the moment is gsp (been trying to keep really cheap acros multiple times and they always STN)
-my tank is now 2 years old
So without chasing numbers I am trying to get all my parameters stable so I can try SPS again. My only challenging parameter I would say is alkalinity. Given everything I stated, how do I keep my alk stable and not fluctuating so I can keep SPS?