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Old 04-01-2008, 10:59 PM
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Default Re: Water params for happy corals?
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Originally Posted by dinor2 View Post
What do you all keep your levels at for your corals, soft, sps and/or lps?

My levels are currently

Temp 76
Salinity 1.024
Ph 8.0
Alk 1.6
Calc 520
Mag 1300
No ammonia, nitrites or nitrates, and no phosphates.

I'd also like to know who uses the kalk drip system as I'm thinking this may be what I need to perfect my water params.

I'd like a couple of those numbers to go up a little but, it's staying consistant and my corals seem happy, but not as happy as I've seen them in other tanks... so thought I'd see what works for you all.

Thanks.
Alk way too low. Tank out of balance. +1 what dinor says. Im sure your live rock is green and not turning purple. As your tank gets older with that low alk you are going to have an algae problem. No buffering capacity.
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