Red Sea Coral Pro salt users! Question!

Vapour1ze

Vapour1ze

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For those of you running red sea coral pro salt. What do you keep your alk at? I have been running reef crystals for the past 6 months. Switched to red sea. Alk is higher out of the box and I noticed two of my sps started turning white at the base. Think it may be alk burn? I run alk at 8.5 even after added red sea and dosing. It hangs out there pretty steady. Just wondering if I should slowly dose up to maintain a higher alk of about 11?

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I keep alk around 9. I run Ca and Mg closer to the RSCP salt values (~450 and 1400). Im not 100% sure but it doesn't seem like alk burn would be likely unless you changed a larger amount of water. That's one thing about the RSCP, I don't think I would use it if I had to do a larger water change than 10-30 gallons for my 120 since my alk is alot lower than a fresh batch of rscp saltwater. I probably could get away with using it for a larger water change (maybe up to 50 gallons) but that never even comes up so havent bothered.

I like the salt though, you really gotta make sure you can mix it "vigorously" but it clears up superfast if you do.

Edit: Should add that I'm keeping a mixed reef so 9 is plenty enough for me. I don't think I would benefit from running alk any higher but I'm not sure if someone keeping an sps tank might benefit from it. I feel like even most featured sps tanks I see run alk 8-9 though.
 
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I'm @ 9.5-10 alk , and I've been running rscp for many years and have had great success with it , mixes clean and clear and consistent reading when I have a fresh mix , but I'm also dosing 60ml of alk and 40ml of cal the the frag tank to keep my levels up.


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