Salt Water Parameters

Randy Holmes-Farley · Apr 3, 2018

Kirk Hoogstad said:
Okay an update on the tank

4-2-18 8:30 PM PST
Temp 78.8
Salinity 1.025
PH 8.4
Ca 440
KH 7 2.50meq/L
PO4 0
NO2 0
NO3 <1
NH3/NH4 0
Mg 1200

I added 2 clown fish
I seem to have an outbreak of brown algae in my fuge and on my rock.
My tree coral totally bleached out and I think is toast
I think the light was a bit much so I moved it higher and turned it down. I did move the tree coral to an area with less light on the bottom of the tank.
I would have thought my nitrate would have been higher with the adding of the fish and feeding.
Any suggestions?
I did order some live sand as this is a bare bottom tank will this help?

I doubt whether live sand will change any of your reported parameters, unless it has dead stuff on it that leads to a temporary nutrient rise.

Nitrate may take time to rise, or the foods you are feeding may not be sufficient to overpower the uptake by organisms in the tank.

SuperHaze57 · Apr 3, 2018

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
I doubt whether live sand will change any of your reported parameters, unless it has dead stuff on it that leads to a temporary nutrient rise.

Nitrate may take time to rise, or the foods you are feeding may not be sufficient to overpower the uptake by organisms in the tank.

Thanks Randy I didn’t think by adding sand that would do much. I think the wife just doesn’t like the bare bottom lol. I just need to get the algae under control. I cut back on the time my fuge light is on so time will tell if that helps in the fuge.