60 shallow reef

[Miah2bzy]

Fish update: went to stone aquatics and picked up a bristle tooth tang (60F), flasher wrasse (60F), yellow coris wrasse (30L), green mandarin (60F). Boys are loving the new additions this morning!

 

[Miah2bzy]

Corals: picked up a blonde blue eyed b**** frag from Chad (prez) yesterday and walked away with blowpops, birdsnest, and two other frags to dbtc as well. Thanks Chad!!!

 

[Haddonisreef]

Again sounds like u got some nice goodies!!

 

[Miah2bzy]

Again sounds like u got some nice goodies!!

Getting there...always one more thing to add I'm afraid.

 

[Haddonisreef]

Getting there...always one more thing to add I'm afraid.

What are ya afraid of?

 

[Miah2bzy]

Fish died today: bristle tooth tang, yellow coris wrasse, flasher wrasse. Mandarin goby was way inside a cave in the rock work but came out healthy, strong, and full of personality.

 

[Haddonisreef]

Fish died today: bristle tooth tang, yellow coris wrasse, flasher wrasse. Mandarin goby was way inside a cave in the rock work but came out healthy, strong, and full of personality.

So what died?

 

[Miah2bzy]

So what died?

The tang and two wrasses. Mandarin has been looking well. Flasher wrasse died within 24 hrs of adding, tang died a day later, and the coris wrasse died this morning. Already contacted the store I got them from, water params have been in check for a few months now.

 

[Miah2bzy]

Multi Tank Syndrome: 60F, 3x20L, 30L, 20H, 40B, 10

Had a chalice that started to "melt". Tested params and alk was 2.05 and calcium was 380.
I dose with Kalk water mix that I add to my topoff. Might b time to get a 2 part.

 

[Balz3352]

Brs is super easy to do... Started using it not too long ago happy with results so far

 

[Haddonisreef]

Had a chalice that started to "melt". Tested params and alk was 2.05 and calcium was 380.
I dose with Kalk water mix that I add to my topoff. Might b time to get a 2 part.

Oh my that's really low alk!! Lucky that everything didn't die! Two part is real easy just added a doseing system to my nem tank. Better then having to test all the time for sure!!

 

[Miah2bzy]

Oh my that's really low alk!! Lucky that everything didn't die! Two part is real easy just added a doseing system to my nem tank. Better then having to test all the time for sure!!

Anything I can do in the mean time while it ships? Read a few forums that showed on graphs for alk/calcium that both are low and I need to raise both.

 

[ValG]

Anything I can do in the mean time while it ships? Read a few forums that showed on graphs for alk/calcium that both are low and I need to raise both.

Water changes? Mix up a new batch and test it. May be the easiest thing to do at the moment. I'd also look into this: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/rhf/

 

[Haddonisreef]

Anything I can do in the mean time while it ships? Read a few forums that showed on graphs for alk/calcium that both are low and I need to raise both.

Try not to raise it to fast! A wc might not be bad idea!!

 

[Miah2bzy]

Slow dripping 1 gallon of rodi mixed with 1/2 cup of baking soda. Got the rodi running now to make 30 gallon water change later tonight.

 

[SkyShark]

Slow dripping 1 gallon of rodi mixed with 1/2 cup of baking soda. Got the rodi running now to make 30 gallon water change later tonight.

Now just be careful you don't drop the salinity too much!

 

[Miah2bzy]

Multi Tank Syndrome: 60F, 3x20L, 30L, 20H, 40B, 10

Now just be careful you don't drop the salinity too much!

It was 1.026 yesterday on a 100 gallon system and I burn thru 5 gallons topoff in 2-3 days usually.

 

[Miah2bzy]

Did a series of water changes last week and tested last night:
Alk was 3.53 and ca was 470.

 

[Dr.DiSilicate]

That seems almost impossible. Did you double check with someone else? Store or something?

 

[Miah2bzy]

Multi Tank Syndrome: 60F, 3x20L, 30L, 20H, 40B, 10

That seems almost impossible. Did you double check with someone else? Store or something?

I dosed very slowly with baking soda for two days until the alk got up, then did a 15 gallon water change this morning early (20th). I tested every 4 hrs (new baby keeps me up that much anyways) and it took till yesterday to get to 3.00 then the water change was early this morning (I was using Fritz salt, not sure if that makes a difference).