Chemistry: Amateur Questions On Water Parameters (dosing)
Can I ask you stupid questions about water parameters in reef Aquaria?
What I want to achieve is acceptable params so all my corals can thrive, get fat and happy and everything .. including happy and healthy fish. Basically I want to do the right thing for my tank.
With that, I believe currently I have water params issue.
From Randy's table below, so far what I've tested are:
I want to target the 4 remainder critical params:
As I understand from few readings, pH is affected by Alk ... so in a way, by controlling Alk, we are controlling pH.
If so, does that mean, there are really only 3 params to be fixed, which in turn will fix the pH on its own if all 3 params are at adequate level?
Am I confusing you? sorry !
I yet to know what my Ca, Alk & Mg are; am planning to take my water for fully testing at LFS this weekend.
I just want to understand in advance if these params are depleted, what do I do first?
What I want to achieve is acceptable params so all my corals can thrive, get fat and happy and everything .. including happy and healthy fish. Basically I want to do the right thing for my tank.
With that, I believe currently I have water params issue.
From Randy's table below, so far what I've tested are:
- Salinity kept at 1.025.
- Temperature kept at 25 celcius ~ 77 fahrenheit.
- Ammonia, Nitrite & Nitrate (> 100 ppm) => NoPox program is currently underway.
- Phosphate (0.25 ppm) => NoPox program is currently underway.
I want to target the 4 remainder critical params:
- Calcium
- Alkalinity
- pH (7.4)
- Magnesium
As I understand from few readings, pH is affected by Alk ... so in a way, by controlling Alk, we are controlling pH.
If so, does that mean, there are really only 3 params to be fixed, which in turn will fix the pH on its own if all 3 params are at adequate level?
Am I confusing you? sorry !
I yet to know what my Ca, Alk & Mg are; am planning to take my water for fully testing at LFS this weekend.
I just want to understand in advance if these params are depleted, what do I do first?