Andy
December 16th, 2001, 06:46 PM
Hi everyone
My 280 gallon system has been running for 5 weeks now. It contains ~200 lbs of live rock. I have transferred over all of my soft corals, polyps and shrooms and a couple of LPS corals from holding tanks. I didn't want to fire up my Precision Marine calcium reactor until water chemistry settled down with the new water, sand and live rock. I'm wondering how long I should wait before I get it up and running. I'm currently not adding any additives. Over the course of the next couple of weeks I'll be transferring over the LPS and SPS corals. Should I set up the reactor before or after I add the hard corals. My alkalinity is falling slowly from 10.5 dKH 3 weeks ago to 9.5 dKH today. Calcium is a bit low (300 ppm).
Andy
My 280 gallon system has been running for 5 weeks now. It contains ~200 lbs of live rock. I have transferred over all of my soft corals, polyps and shrooms and a couple of LPS corals from holding tanks. I didn't want to fire up my Precision Marine calcium reactor until water chemistry settled down with the new water, sand and live rock. I'm wondering how long I should wait before I get it up and running. I'm currently not adding any additives. Over the course of the next couple of weeks I'll be transferring over the LPS and SPS corals. Should I set up the reactor before or after I add the hard corals. My alkalinity is falling slowly from 10.5 dKH 3 weeks ago to 9.5 dKH today. Calcium is a bit low (300 ppm).
Andy