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BaxterS80 · 10-11-2007, 03:52 AM

Hi Clownfish,
How often have you checked your ph during the cycling process.? Your alkalinity is quite low and is directly related to the stability of your ph. At such a low alkalinity I would imagine you may have ph swings dependent on many things such as time of day.

Is this going to be a reef tank or a FO tank?

When you say your Alk is 2.0 what unit of measure are you using, dkh or meq/L? I am assuming dkh

Are you dosing your tank with a calcium/Alk supplement?

10-11-2007, 03:52 AM	#2 (permalink)
BaxterS80 Torch Coral Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47 Posts: 1,173 Karma: 1263	Hi Clownfish, How often have you checked your ph during the cycling process.? Your alkalinity is quite low and is directly related to the stability of your ph. At such a low alkalinity I would imagine you may have ph swings dependent on many things such as time of day. Is this going to be a reef tank or a FO tank? When you say your Alk is 2.0 what unit of measure are you using, dkh or meq/L? I am assuming dkh Are you dosing your tank with a calcium/Alk supplement? _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS 2 Percs 1 Chevron Tang Hippo Tang Six Line Wrasse Coral Banded Shrimp Cleaner Shrimp Starry Blenny 4 Lyretail Anthias Long Polyp Toadstool Montipora Long Tentacle Anenome Short tentacle plate Pulsing Xenia Green Star polyps Frogspawn 29 gallon 2 Clown 1 Coral Beauty 1 Fairy Wrasse 24 FOWLR Dwarf Lion 125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html "The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance"