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    Default Parameters on new tank are a little out of whack

    My tank has been set up for a little less than two weeks now. I ran all params last night, and I am still not seeing any traces of ammonia, nitrites or nitrates. I used bio spira when I set up, and I have 3 chromis in there since friday of last week. If I was going to have a cycle, I would have thought that ammonia would have shown up by now at least.

    I also ran my reef test kit last night here are my readings
    Cal: 525
    ALK: 14.0 DKH/ 5.0 MEQ
    MAG: 1600

    My PH is sitting at 7.78 my salinity is around 35 PPM and my temp is 80.0

    I had my kalk reactor on, but I think it was pushing too much kalk in the water which was raising my paramaters.

    Any thoughts?

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    You probably don't need to be dosing anything at this point. If your tank isn't consuming Kh dosing kalk will cause high alkalinity.

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    I will shut off my reactor this afternoon when i get home.

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    Just let it run. Nothing worse than thinking you had a cycle, and didn't. And pH goes up and down during the day.
    Bill

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