Quote Originally Posted by Frogman View Post
I believe in nutrition for the corals. Let them nutrients fly, but do it slowly as to avoid an outbreak of GHA or Cyano. I look at it this way, what would happen in you lived in a ULNS? You're color would change, you would swell, get weak and die?!? So do corals, they need food, reefs aren't nutrition void, they are rich with nutrition and life! But we have to be careful of high nutrient side effects.

As for alk, any reason you wanted it less then 9?


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I lowered the alk because of the side affects with alk that high and the pellets being active and some of the sps lost skin mid coral. So I'm trying to get alk stable at a lower level for now and then wean the tank off pellets. I want to get 3 to 5 nit and a .02 phos if possible. Then hopefully everything will color up better and grow a bit better instead of being starved. I already have cyano and once the nit are higher than the phos that should go away.