Reef Discussion

[iluvnanos]

Hi guys in my 20 litre nano which has been going for 3 months has a torch coral hammer coral and zoanthids in it and I was wondering if I need to dose at the moment 25% a week is good and everything opens up and looks great so was just wondering

 

[Buddy]

Probably not. Your weekly water changes should be enough to keep everything happy. Can you fill in the system overview?

 

[iluvnanos]

4kgs live rock 25w led light hob filter power head for extra movement one torch one hammer and purple zoanthids they doing great with just water changes

 

[Buddy]

Do you know your water parameters?

 

[iluvnanos]

Nitrate 0ppm
Phosphate 0ppm
Alkalinity 10
Calcium 1300
Ammonia 3ppm

 

[Buddy]

Are you sure the calcium is right? Did you mean magnesium? Also you should not have any ammonia reading, I hope there are no fish in there.

 

[iluvnanos]

Lol the ammonia is wrong I re tested it strange it came up with that I meant mag instead of calcium

 

[Ian G]

You shouldn't need to dose a nano at all. Just weekly water changes, preferably with NSW.

 

[iluvnanos]

Yeah I live in Greenwich so that isn't hard thanks for the input guys

 

[Cksrealm]

Do you find using the water from Greenwich works Ok in the tank, I grabbed some water from near there and found it was very low in salinity

 

[iluvnanos]

I havent taken any from the wharf for that reason and that i dont want any pollution in my tank so i just use ASW and i also found it was very low in salinity it was quite unusual