Typical hammer activity

[Peter K]

What additives have been in your usual routine? (I just switched to Fritz and love it so far the alk should be around 9 in the standard mix.)

 

[DSC reef]

I've read mixed reviews on fritz but the source water from fritz and the LFS needs to be tested. Not saying fritz isn't good by any means. Also, premixed water from a LFS makes me nervous. Had many issues with that long ago.

 

[RoughneckReefingWife]

Salinity is currently showing 1.028 I have 10 gallons of RO on hand. Should I do a small wc?

 

[Peter K]

Salinity is high but not a reason to do anything drastic, especially with your alk of 14 your best bet of keeping things alive is to walk your parameters back down slowly over a period of a week or two.

 

[Peter K]

Salinity is high but not a reason to do anything drastic, especially with your alk of 14 your best bet of keeping things alive is to walk your parameters back down slowly over a period of a week or two.

 

[RoughneckReefingWife]

Ok. Thanks! Fingers crossed!!!

 

[RoughneckReefingWife]

I was using Fritz RPM elements 2 part calcium and alkalinity system which says routine dosing of 1sp per 20 gallons of each part per day. So I was doing 6 tsp calcium and 6 tsp alkalinity per day until I noticed they were both high, then I stopped them completely

 

[skysoblue987]

Did you acclimate it correctly? Every coral I bought I drip acclimate and they all opened up within 2-3 hours.

 

[RoughneckReefingWife]

Still no progress, should I love him?
125 gallon 6 foot tank
No ammonia, phosphates or nitrates
Nitrates below 10ppm
Ph 8.2 -working on getting this up
Calcium 420ppm
Alkalinity 11 dkh
Salinity 26
Eshopps ADV 200 Sump with Eshopps X220 skimmer

 

[Peter K]

Based on looking at your first picture it doesn't look any worse, which is a good sign. Your parameters are back where they should be so I would now focus on keeping things super stable since it only has been a week from your original post. I would still hold off on dosing anything as your tank doesn't seem very high demand in terms of ca/alk consumption so weekly water changes should maintain those levels for now.

 

[DSC reef]

The ph is fine, I wouldn't dose anything. The alk can come down as well. It will take a bit for the hammer to recover if it does once everything is stable.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

The ph is fine, I wouldn't dose anything. The alk can come down as well. It will take a bit for the hammer to recover if it does once everything is stable.

+1

 

[savetheocean]

Try to blow some of the algae growing on the skeleton of the coral off, cant that annoy them sometimes?

 

[DSC reef]

If it was cyano I'd say yes. The algae I see is just from the skeleton being exposed. I wouldn't risk blowing those polyps being retracted as they are.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

I agree with DSC reef. I wouldn't risk blowing the algae off and have a chance of damaging the coral any further. Have you tired moving it to another spot? Your PH is fine, I wouldn't chase numbers.

 

[Dom]

Salinity 26

26ppt seems low.

 

[DSC reef]

I believe it's meant to say 1.026 SG