Kyleovski
Community Member
I have a 50G cube tank that currently doesnt run a skimmer at all, no filter socks , just a fuge on reverse schedule to display in one of the sump compartments with a kessil h80 and cheato.
Currently I struggle with keeping nutrients up have to feed pretty heavily to keep things stable at around 2.5ppm nitrate and 0.1 phos.
My issue is that my pH tends to dip pretty low Sometimes dropping as low as 7.69 when I'm in the house and during winter its not practical to open windows to keep pH up.
Its definitely a CO2 issue as I recently went on holiday for a month and the tank pH shot up to low of 8 and high of 8.15 as no one was inside.
Ideally I'd like to have a pH at 8.2-8.3 so I want to start dosing kalk, however the idea of a co2 scrubber is also an option however its more expensive investment. Im also worried that the skimmer strips even more nutrients from my water.
I also dose 20.6ml of TM All For Reef spread out over the day so I think that works out to daily alk consumption of roughly 1.2dkh so adding kalk would reduce how much afr i need to dose daily.
What do you guys suggest?
Currently I struggle with keeping nutrients up have to feed pretty heavily to keep things stable at around 2.5ppm nitrate and 0.1 phos.
My issue is that my pH tends to dip pretty low Sometimes dropping as low as 7.69 when I'm in the house and during winter its not practical to open windows to keep pH up.
Its definitely a CO2 issue as I recently went on holiday for a month and the tank pH shot up to low of 8 and high of 8.15 as no one was inside.
Ideally I'd like to have a pH at 8.2-8.3 so I want to start dosing kalk, however the idea of a co2 scrubber is also an option however its more expensive investment. Im also worried that the skimmer strips even more nutrients from my water.
I also dose 20.6ml of TM All For Reef spread out over the day so I think that works out to daily alk consumption of roughly 1.2dkh so adding kalk would reduce how much afr i need to dose daily.
What do you guys suggest?
