Ok, so, my livestock are doing well, despite the low levels of alk and ph, and high of calcium (which I need to test tonight again along with mag, ph and alk).
Actually, my lr has tons of purple coralline on it; check it out...
Left side
Middle
Right side
Yes, I do have a good amount of algae but, it's not out of control and I am slowly adding more snails (more variety of 'em as well) AS WELL AS balancing out my water params, which is why I'm only adding a handfull of snails total for the time being until I get those levels better.
My kenya, on the right side of the tank, should be splitting any day now (or peeling?) but, I am not real sure which route I should go with in stablizing those params....
I'm wondering if I just need to give it a little more time to flush out the 'bad salt' I used one water change a couple weeks ago (which is why all this happened, before, my levels were near perfect, alk was 2.5, calc was 420, ph was 8.2 and it was all steady until that dang red sea salt).
So, now that I'm back to the salt I was using before, my livestock does seem to be getting back to 'normal' but I'm going to keep track (every day is the plan) of those levels, I was just wanting to see what you guys have yours at so I have a target range to stay at, which, sounds like what mine was before was ok.
Now I guess I'll post my readings either later tonight or tomorrow and we'll go from there... I was really thinking I needed to start dosing kalk, seems like a lot of people think that's a must in a reef tank... but guess I still have options to weigh.
Thanks for helping me out guys, I'll post those results asap.