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Well alk is up to 7.7 but cal has jumped to 500. Should I continue to dose equally since I am using the balling method with Aquaforest 123 or should I dose slightly more of part 2 then part 1 for a few days?

Looks like its pooping. My flower nem will do this every once in a while a few days after direct feeding.

Great looking scape.

I dose NeoPhos by Brightwell to my ATO water, works great and is cheap. I dose 1 cap per 5 gallons of fresh water.

+1 on this.

Well 4 days into getting the alk and cal back inline and Im up to 7.0. Today is the first day I have seen any visible stress to any of the coral. My duncans are partially closed up but they are cry babies. Im shocked they were fine until today they normally are the first coral to alert me when something is out of whack even in the slightest bit. My plating red monti has lost it white ring so its not growing. I had a jump from 6.4 to 7.0 in about a 20 hour window so I backed off the dosing a little. Probably because the monti has decided to stop growing due to the swing. Got my fingers crossed everything stays healthy and readjusts to normal chemistry quickly when I get it back there. It sucks I am usually very good at testing alk every few days, I slip up for about a week and a half and thats when the alk drops. I guess thats this hobby for ya everything goes well till you slip for a few days or go out of town lol.

Well 21 hours later and Im up to 5.9 dkh. Seems to be a decent pace for raising back to tanks stable level.

Thanks, hopefully this bump in the road doesn’t hurt anything.

That was my initial thought too, that continuing dosing the sam amount would just hold it steady, but I thought I had read at one point that is not quite how it works. Im going to up the dosing from 4 daily doses of each component of 12.5ml to 4 daily doses of 13.5 ml and see what happens.

Here is a photo I took last night for instagram, I cant believe my levels are so low and everything looks pretty happy.

Oh boy, just checked my ALK level and got a reading of 5.5, checked again same reading. I dose Aquaforest 123 and had run the jug bone dry. Swapped it out with a fresh one immediately and primed the dosing line. Since the ALK was so low I knew Cal would be as well, 295ppm. Everything in the tank looks super happy. My ALK usually hovers right around 7.8 - 8.2. My tank is a Red Sea e170 with a sump so about 48ish gallons of water and I was dosing 50ml a day of each part of the Aquaforest 123 to keep tank stable. Should I just continue to dose this same amount, will it slowly bring levels back to where they should be? Or should I increase the dosing for a few days? If I should increase the dosing by what percentage?

I love my space invader. It didnt grow for almost a year always looked healthy just next to no growth. That said the last few months it has taken off and doubled in size.

Had to return the 26hd that came with my Red Sea E170 wouldn’t connect wifi. Customer service was great and they had a light to me within a few days of me contacting them.

I started dosing phosphates because I had undetectable amount and my nitrates would never drop just hover around 15-25ppm. I could do a 20% water change and within 24hrs nitrates would be back up. I also had very little growth from corals and seemed to get cyano once every few months. Got phosphates detectable and nitrates started to drop on their own pretty fast. I am now at a point where nitrates are almost not decidable so I have started to dose them as well. Coral growth and coloration are better then ever and I find it easy to keep nitrates between 2-5ppm and phosphates between .05-.1. My algae scrubber also grows so fast now and pod population is insane. I am a firm believer in having balanced nitrates and phosphates after seeing the benefits first hand.

I use neo phos dose 1 cap to my 5 gallon ATO every time I fill it. Fill once every 5-7 days on a red sea 170.

You could try pulling out the drain tube that you trun to adjust the water height. Then put the cup on kind of sideways so some of the water overflows and just the upper neck just starts to skim a little. Photo attached of what I mean by tipping the cup. Over a few days slowly straighten the cup as needed to keep skimming. Should pull what ever it is out slowly over a few days. Thats what I do after running chemi clean.

Didn’t notice the hole in the first pic. Probably residue from somthing. Mine only acts up like that for first hour or two after swapping filter pads or when running chemi clean.

Is the top of the silencer a bottle cap? My curve 5 cap.

Great pic!

My best bud Recon, he will be 14 this year.

Oops yes 🤦‍♂️

I really appreciate the offer but just ordering online with 2 day shipping. Im not super concerned as I caught it super fast and there was no evidence of anything oozing out. Evething still looks happy and healthy. My duncans seem to be my coral that show me when somthing is off in the tank and they look unaffected. My elegance that looks slightly smaller today has its days where its just not happy for no apparent reason fairly often so I dont trust it to tell me when something is wrong, the boy that cried wolf coral 😂.

Yup this is exactly what I was talking about. Good to know. I just picked up 2 150w aquatop heaters. I was trying to find a titanium heater but could not find on local so these will have to do for now. My last heater was not tied to apex because the Neotherms did a great job keeping temp 78 +\- .01 degrees, dont think these will do that without the help of an apex. So my plan is to set apex to turn them on at 77.9 and off at 78.0. I will set the thermostat on the heaters to somewhere around 79 just incase the apex fails to shut off at 78.0. I have a doser set up on plug 4 that stays on of not plugged into that outlet. I would think it would be safe to run 2 150w heaters on outlet 8 with a splitter?

Apex should be able to regulate a titanium heater without an internal thermostat I would think. Do I need to plug it into one of the outlets that has a relay on the apex power strip?

I have been keeping a close eye on the tank all day. Everthing looks normal with exception of my elegance coral being open but not quite as full as usual. Never heard of Triton Detox, I will have to see if anyone local had some. If not I will order some online. Thanks for the tip.