alkalininity at 17 help please

dav9175

dav9175

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i recently got rid of alot of my fish and re aquascaped my tank to decrease my bio-load due to high nitrates . the nitrates were at a constant 80ppm to 90ppm. i properly maintained my tank with water changes and dosing of B-ionic. i recently added a hot 5 gal refugium growing chaeto and slowly started to notice more green and pink coraline growing back on the tank walls.I had none. i also added a rdsb about two and a half months ago. my nitates are now dow into the 10-15 range but my alkalinity will not decrese. i do 20 to 25 gal water changes twice monthly and run a sump with two skimmers. i would like for my tank to get back to normal reef if you know what i mean. anyone have any insight PLEASE?!!!!!!!
 
dav9175

dav9175

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i dont really have too much but mushrooms left after long tank spike and overstocking but i really want my coraline back
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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Do you have any corals, besides those mushrooms? How do they look? What's pH at? What AlK test kit do you have? How old is it?
 
dav9175

dav9175

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Originally Posted by GeoJ
http:///forum/post/2820230
Your numbers back inline?
well all other tests run fine salinity at 1.23 0 ammonia ph 8.2 nope no other coral everything else died like i said its been mostly a fowlr n some coral until it all died but the mushroom and button polyps are alive and thriving test kit is api nitrate is still about 10 ppm as of yesterday
 
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