Okay good, I have an alk kit already. Also, my salt mix (blue red sea salt) is supposed to give me 8 dkh, however, weirdly enough, my alk is at 8.6. How is that possible? I never dosed anything and even my water changes are slacking. Could it be because I micro bubble scrub the tank every week or so?you would need at least an alk test kit, you can get the other two kits later.
You first need to get your alk stable, probably best to aim for your salt alk lvl to start with, so if your salt has alk of say 8, aim for 8 for now, if your tank alk is only 7.5 you'll need to add something like baking soda to bring the alk up to 8, then you test every 24 hours to see how much your tank is using, if the alk drops down to say 7.7 from 8, it's using 0.3 alk a day so you will need to dose 0.3kh of All For Reef to get it back to 8, easy as that, there is a All for Reef dosing calculator on the AFR site, and a baking soda calculator is easy enough to find online.