Water Chemistry

I have been testing my Calcium and Alkalinity levels recently and the numbers just did not sit right with me. So I purchased an Elos Magnesium test kit so I could check my Magnesium level as that is where I believe the culprit lies. Sure enough my Magnesium level was 1200ppm which is about 150ppm below where I would like it to be. So I purchased from Brightwell Aquatics Magnesion-P Magnesium Supplement that I could mix myself and dose into my aquarium.


Now according to the ...

I have been seeing some bad side effects from what I can contribute to is due to the Bio Pellets that I decided to add to my aquarium. So I decided to ditch the whole Bio Pellets thing until I can get every one of my issues under control. Then I realized that I needed something to keep phosphates in check while I worked out the kinks. So I decided to turn to Brightwell Aquatics Phosphatr Regenerable Phosphate-Adsorption Resin. I purchased the smallest amount available (175ml) so I could test ...

I have a 30 gallon tank with 20 gallon sump. Total water volume about 30 full gallons because of rock and sand. I have SMR-1 with pellets and my Nitrates are still 30+ after a good month or more on pellets. Nitrite and Amonia is 0 not worried about PO4 because this is a FOWLR tank.

DO I maybe need to add more pellets?

WC are 5 gallons every week like clock work

Craig

Ok, so here's my problem if you want to call it that. About 3 months ago I decided to try a 3g a day water change on my 400g system. Around 8 weeks the SPS started to grow and color up nicely. Over the last 2 weeks or so my ORA Tri-color has went from Cream/Purple/ with green polyps to a REALLY light cream color, not bleach white but no purple and no green polyps. It started out Brown/Purple with green polyps.

My tests are showing 0's across the board, 450 ca and 9 DKH. Can it ...

So I have been very happy with my Bubble Magus NAC-5E Protein Skimmer since I bought it a few months back but as with everything in this aquarium build I have decided that I need to make some slight upgrades and adjustments in order to suite the overall goal of this aquarium. So I have noticed that my Nitrates have been slowly creeping up over the past few weeks (they are currently 20ppm as of this post). I have a tendency to over feed and my display is stocked quite heavily with various types ...