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Im honesty at the point of just like having so many questions, and im just mad at myself for not finding an answer. My tank is 5 months old almost 6 months. I have duncans. Candy cane, 2 hammers, 1 torch, mushroom, zoas.
2 months ago i had 0 nitrate, and 0 phosphate. So i had dinos, and cyano. So i started dosing them. Till like a month ago i stopped. And my tank is catching up on phosphate, and nitrate alone.
My nitrate is 5, and my phosphate is 0.06 without any dosing.
I do water changes every 3-4 weeks. Because i dont want to bottom out my nitrate back to 0.
So heres whats happening during that period to do water changes. My alk is dropping from 7.5 (tropic marin pro salt)
To 7.0. So i dose that up no problem.
Now heres where im confused. My calcium is at 390. Should i dose that up back to 450?
My PH takes whole day to get to 8.1 legit whole day. My basement have no windows (old house) should i raise my alk to raise PH or should i leave it alone?
My third concern. Should i change the salt to other salt witj higher alk, and higher calcium, and mag? So i have room for errors? Or my alk, mag, and calcium is fine?
2 months ago i had 0 nitrate, and 0 phosphate. So i had dinos, and cyano. So i started dosing them. Till like a month ago i stopped. And my tank is catching up on phosphate, and nitrate alone.
My nitrate is 5, and my phosphate is 0.06 without any dosing.
I do water changes every 3-4 weeks. Because i dont want to bottom out my nitrate back to 0.
So heres whats happening during that period to do water changes. My alk is dropping from 7.5 (tropic marin pro salt)
To 7.0. So i dose that up no problem.
Now heres where im confused. My calcium is at 390. Should i dose that up back to 450?
My PH takes whole day to get to 8.1 legit whole day. My basement have no windows (old house) should i raise my alk to raise PH or should i leave it alone?
My third concern. Should i change the salt to other salt witj higher alk, and higher calcium, and mag? So i have room for errors? Or my alk, mag, and calcium is fine?