Potential RIP to my beautiful tank )’:

[jayteerq]

First off… I am an idiot!!! Wow
So I’m battling high nitrates. Thought I’d cut it down by doing a big water change. 30%. Never done one this big. Didn’t want my Alk swinging because I keep it at 9 and Tropic Marin Pro Reef Salt comes at 7.

My dummy thought it’d be a good idea to get Alk up to 9 using Kalkwasser. After I mixed my new water up to 1.026 and got the temperature right, I decided to use the Reef Chemistry Calculator to determine how much saturated kalkwasser I should put in to get my desired Alk level. My dummy again just dumped the slurry in instead of taking the dissolved part of the water column. Well my dummy continued to do my water change and now seems to be upsetting my corals heavily. My PH jumped 1.0+ and who knows if my Alk is even where I want it lol. There’s white strings hanging all over my rock work, who knows where that’s coming from? Maybe kalkwasser burning the algae from the rocks?! Who knows. But please guy pray for me tonight lol. Lesson learned, I pray I wake up to a functioning tank tomorrow. Will never do this again… so wrong in so many ways. My only excuse is that I’m 5 months new to this hobby so beginners mistake? Hehe

 

[REEFRIED!]

Yikes!! I think you might be ok. We will wait for an update tomorrow

 

[braaap]

Mistakes happen. It is part of the hobby. Run some carbon and do a standard water change if you can. But I bet most of it survives if not all.

 

[Uncle99]

I’m think dilution is the solution.

 

[abc123]

@Troylee might be able to chime in on this. I think you’ll be fine.

 

[Steven Garland]

Like stated already you may be okay. Maybe do a little water change.

 

[jayteerq]

WHAT IN THE WORLD?!?! I’ve had this chalice for months and never seen it have stinging tentacles. Seems like it likes the 8.6 PH LOL! I didn’t know chalice can have sweepers like this! That insane!! I guess some of the corals are loving the higher PH haha

 

[Tamberav]

I was taught to bring up salt mix with 2 part and kalk for maintenance due to its effect on pH and precipitation issues since you are trying to dose up salt mix. I believe kalk is supposed to be added to RODI (freshwater) only.

Even if you didn't dump the slurry, I don't believe doing this is correct either way.

 

[crazyfishmom]

For future reference… if doing a large water change and your alkalinity is 9 and the new water is 9, the drop would have been to 8.3-8.4 so barely a blip from the coral’s perspective.

 

[jayteerq]

For future reference… if doing a large water change and your alkalinity is 9 and the new water is 9, the drop would have been to 8.3-8.4 so barely a blip from the coral’s perspective.

Oh really? A sudden .6 drop would be ok? I was worried that wasn’t a good idea but I guess my idea was worse haha

 

[rtparty]

The sweepers from the chalice aren’t a sign of happiness. It senses a threat so it is lashing out to kill that threat.

 

[Tamberav]

I found this older thread, specifically Randy's posts:

Kalk and Salt Mix

I've read that using kalked RO/DI water for the salt mix is inadvisable, but I've never read why this is the case. This rule necessitates maintaining 3, rather than two, reservoirs. One for pure RO/DI for mixing, one for the salt mix used for water change, and one for the kalked RO/DI for...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[jayteerq]

The sweepers from the chalice aren’t a sign of happiness. It senses a threat so it is lashing out to kill that threat.

Oh yikes lol

 

[jayteerq]

I found this older thread, specifically Randy's posts:

Kalk and Salt Mix

I've read that using kalked RO/DI water for the salt mix is inadvisable, but I've never read why this is the case. This rule necessitates maintaining 3, rather than two, reservoirs. One for pure RO/DI for mixing, one for the salt mix used for water change, and one for the kalked RO/DI for...

www.reef2reef.com

Thank you for this!

 

[crazyfishmom]

Oh really? A sudden .6 drop would be ok? I was worried that wasn’t a good idea but I guess my idea was worse haha

That kind of a drop is normal within a single day. My daily swing goes from 8.5-9 daily. It’s totally normal and then you can bring it back up slowly over the next couple of days.

 

[jayteerq]

For future reference… if doing a large water change and your alkalinity is 9 and the new water is 9, the drop would have been to 8.3-8.4 so barely a blip from the coral’s perspective.

Could this be a misread? I’m stressed now! lol

 

[Solo McReefer]

The sweepers from the chalice aren’t a sign of happiness. It senses a threat so it is lashing out to kill that threat.

Or eat

 

[bubbgee]

WHAT IN THE WORLD?!?! I’ve had this chalice for months and never seen it have stinging tentacles. Seems like it likes the 8.6 PH LOL! I didn’t know chalice can have sweepers like this! That insane!! I guess some of the corals are loving the higher PH haha

Yes, that is what a chalice would do although I haven't seen mine do that for any of my colonies.
so, lucky you?

Edit: Oh threat? I wonder if you have any other stinging corals nearby like a torch.

 

[VintageReefer]

My raja rampage I had for a year would do that on random nights. No other coral near it. Chalice can have huuuge sweepers

 

[Reefering1]

Could this be a misread? I’m stressed now! lol

Alk and calcium will drop after a precipitation event. Wait for it to stop dropping/ water to clear before bringing it back up