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Originally Posted by jroovers
Things look good to me! Sometimes I've found that pieces can go up in smoke for no apparent reason. As long as its an isolated incident, I wouldn't worry about it... if two, three or more pieces, and/or established pieces, starting following suit, then time to be concerned.
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Thanks for the reassurance. I haven't lost a coral in so long it took effort not to freak out. I ran the gamut of tests and found a few issues.
Alk 9.6 -- this has been slowly creeping up from 9.1 over a week ago and my goal is 8.5 so I reduced the daily dose another 5ml for both 2 parts. I measured 9.3 yesterday but that's probably a testing or timing issue.
Calcium 450 -- I always dose equal two parts so I let this drift where it wants.
Magnesium ~ 1650 - woops
I guess I'll stop adding it weekly and let it drift down.
I've also started adding 25ml/gallon of vinegar to my topoff Kalk mixture to increase the potency and save me $$ and this might be the reason Alk is rising.
Here's the coral. It was a very nice purple with green outlines around the polyps. It looks to have stopped losing skin, for now.