So let me get your thoughts on something. Hopefully this isn't something that will screw my tank up too much. I've done two stupid things with fat fingering my RKL system.
1.) Accidently turned off my heaters to my tank overnight. Tank temperature was at 72.5 this morning when i woke up. I have a mixed reef of LPS and SPS. Things looked OK, a little more shrivled and closed than usual. Could 4 or so hours at 72.5 be enough to kill a large amount of live stock? All fish seemed to be fine
2.) I use my RKL to dose Kalk. From 8:00 at night till 8:00 AM the system will turn on a Toms Aqualifter for 15 seconds, then turn it off for 14:45 seconds. Essentially every 15 minutes the system will dose kalk for 15 seconds. I needed to up the amount of kalk due to a higher CA demand. I accidentally changed the setting when upping it to 20 seconds every 15 minutes to 2 minutes every 15 minutes.
Over the course of 2 nights 1 gallon of kalk mixture (two tsp's kalk in one gallon RO) was put in my 90 gallon tank. I havent had a chance to test for alk yet and will do so tonight and post the figure.
For the high alk I am sure to have, I am assuming that 30% water changes would suffice every other day or so until my alk levels are back in line?
1.) Accidently turned off my heaters to my tank overnight. Tank temperature was at 72.5 this morning when i woke up. I have a mixed reef of LPS and SPS. Things looked OK, a little more shrivled and closed than usual. Could 4 or so hours at 72.5 be enough to kill a large amount of live stock? All fish seemed to be fine
2.) I use my RKL to dose Kalk. From 8:00 at night till 8:00 AM the system will turn on a Toms Aqualifter for 15 seconds, then turn it off for 14:45 seconds. Essentially every 15 minutes the system will dose kalk for 15 seconds. I needed to up the amount of kalk due to a higher CA demand. I accidentally changed the setting when upping it to 20 seconds every 15 minutes to 2 minutes every 15 minutes.
Over the course of 2 nights 1 gallon of kalk mixture (two tsp's kalk in one gallon RO) was put in my 90 gallon tank. I havent had a chance to test for alk yet and will do so tonight and post the figure.
For the high alk I am sure to have, I am assuming that 30% water changes would suffice every other day or so until my alk levels are back in line?