So I just ran a full test with my new red sea test kits ( my old chems were expired and I didn't trust the results) so now that I have trustworthy results, I'm happy to report that for the first time in my reefing career my phosphates are at .01 and my nitrates are almost undetectable!
With the kalk stirrer mishaps, my other chemistry had unfortunately been swinging pretty bad. Now that I have reliable data, and have decided to stick to 2 part for the time being, I need to know what to do and was hoping I could get some insite as to a starting point with my water volume:
Water volume = 400 total gallons
Calcium = (greater than) 500ppm
Alkalinity = 1.9 meq/L or 5.3 dKh
Magnesium = 1400ppm
I need a good starting point to raise dKh.
I'm using baked baking soda dissolved in ro water. I used the Randy Holmes recipe. It appears I need to dose alk for a while to bring my chemistry back into place, but im not sure how much our for how long... any suggestions?
With the kalk stirrer mishaps, my other chemistry had unfortunately been swinging pretty bad. Now that I have reliable data, and have decided to stick to 2 part for the time being, I need to know what to do and was hoping I could get some insite as to a starting point with my water volume:
Water volume = 400 total gallons
Calcium = (greater than) 500ppm
Alkalinity = 1.9 meq/L or 5.3 dKh
Magnesium = 1400ppm
I need a good starting point to raise dKh.
I'm using baked baking soda dissolved in ro water. I used the Randy Holmes recipe. It appears I need to dose alk for a while to bring my chemistry back into place, but im not sure how much our for how long... any suggestions?