Good afternoon R2R,
So I have finally gotten my standard parameters to be relatively stable and acceptable;
alkalinity: 9 DKH (used to have 12 but went down to 9 and saw no real change)
PH: 7.7 (too low, I am currently making a system to take air from the outside into my skimmer - would like it to be 8.1-8.2)
Nitrate: 4.8 ppm (want it around 4, max 8 and lowest 1)
Salinity: (50% chance of being 1.025, 50% chance of being 1.026, feels random)
Calcium: 430 ppm (don't have a schedule for dosing this, gets replenished during water changes)
Magnesium: probably around 1350, my Hanna tester is faulty and says 1600+ which is implausible
I have had a euphyllia glabrescens for 3 months (black) and newly added another one (1 week).
last picture is a newly added branching hammer (euphyllia paraancora) taken before night.
dont know if it is clear, but the newly added euphyllia is happy, but also way brighter than the rest...
I have 0 iodine according to a icp test, would it hurt to take it up to 15 ppm in one dosing, or should I do it slowly?. I have two montipora, in which one of them is doing poorly, and I read elsewhere that Montis wants iodine.
red sea color supplement
I got this (link ^)
should I begin dosing this, and how much?. I have been paying attention to moonshiners reefing dosing calculator, and it recommends various things like bromine, copper dosing, vanadium etc. thoughts on this?
I want my corals to have more color
So I have finally gotten my standard parameters to be relatively stable and acceptable;
alkalinity: 9 DKH (used to have 12 but went down to 9 and saw no real change)
PH: 7.7 (too low, I am currently making a system to take air from the outside into my skimmer - would like it to be 8.1-8.2)
Nitrate: 4.8 ppm (want it around 4, max 8 and lowest 1)
Salinity: (50% chance of being 1.025, 50% chance of being 1.026, feels random)
Calcium: 430 ppm (don't have a schedule for dosing this, gets replenished during water changes)
Magnesium: probably around 1350, my Hanna tester is faulty and says 1600+ which is implausible
I have had a euphyllia glabrescens for 3 months (black) and newly added another one (1 week).
last picture is a newly added branching hammer (euphyllia paraancora) taken before night.
dont know if it is clear, but the newly added euphyllia is happy, but also way brighter than the rest...
I have 0 iodine according to a icp test, would it hurt to take it up to 15 ppm in one dosing, or should I do it slowly?. I have two montipora, in which one of them is doing poorly, and I read elsewhere that Montis wants iodine.
red sea color supplement
I got this (link ^)
should I begin dosing this, and how much?. I have been paying attention to moonshiners reefing dosing calculator, and it recommends various things like bromine, copper dosing, vanadium etc. thoughts on this?
I want my corals to have more color