I need help/advice on what to do. While I was away from home, my timer that controls my dosing pumps defaulted to on. This led to a ridiculous amount of 2 part being dosed. I just measured and my ALK is around 15!!!!!! What do I do? I don't understand how it happened but I need to know what to do. Should I be rushing down to aquamart to get some saltwater to do a massive water change or just let it come down on its own and not dose for awhile? The water is super cloudy. Please help me!
Urgent help needed
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Well, I'm a SW noob too, so take this advice for what its worth. But I would definitely do a H20 change. How big is an unknown to me. Maybe 1/5 or 1/10 the tank volume, or maybe more. A H20 change should help get things back to normal quickly. Unless you have something in your tank that uses the ALK quickly, I would go the water change route.
Re: Urgent help needed
A wise man once told me that I should let it go down naturally. He said the only thing more stressful than an alk spike is a rapid alk drop, even if back to "normal".
My story, I was keeping my alk @ 9dKh, well my test kit lied to me and it was actually 17 dKh. Things lost color and had terrible PE. Long story short, it went down in a week.
A wise man once told me that I should let it go down naturally. He said the only thing more stressful than an alk spike is a rapid alk drop, even if back to "normal".
My story, I was keeping my alk @ 9dKh, well my test kit lied to me and it was actually 17 dKh. Things lost color and had terrible PE. Long story short, it went down in a week.
Thanks everyone for the quick replies. My alk beforehand was 11.5 (tested yesterday). I am zoas dominated so when I saw Chad had responded I decided to immediately listen. I did about 35% water change which brought alk down to 11. The water is pretty cloudy still. Should I put in some accuclear and filter floss or just let it settle on it's own? The only things that seem ****ed are a few acans and my clam (but that could just be because of the pyramid snails I have been battling). I sure am learning how to deal with the bad stuff a little to often for my taste right now.:frusty: Any suggestions about clearing the water up would be appreciated!
Thanks guys!!!
Thanks guys!!!
One of my timers failed OFF (thank the gods) in December. I thought they were good because they were the ones that BRS recommends. My recommendation would be to get a reefkeeper lite (bare minimum). I realize now that I shouldn't have tried to save a few bucks in the first place. Now I have RKL's on all of my tanks.
