Melonbob
Reef enthusiast
I've been fighting with my parameters for months now, and although all my corals are doing well, I'm convinced they could be even better if my numbers were good. I was using seachem calcium and complete since the start, but not much was happening so I switched to C-balance, which people seemed to swear by. Bought a gallon of each too. I am adding 3 caps of calcium every morning, and 3 caps of alk every night. I have done this for about a week now and did my tests tonight. predator tank was at 8.2ph, 8dKH alk, and 450 calcium. The reef tested at 8.2ph, 7 dKH alk and 300 calcium. I'm so sick of seeing the same numbers. tried different tests, and lfs is getting even lower numbers than me on alk, but they get my water first thing in the morning. I've done up to 25% water changes, nothing seems to bring things up. Help!