Adriansaquatics
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so I’ll start off with a little bit of back history I had a 90 gallon mixed reef aquarium running for the last year and decided to upgrade to 120 gallon aquarium over the last three weeks. I’ve been setting up the 120 with 6 new bags of Fiji pink live sand, about 100lbs live rock I let the tank cycle about a week and a half and then I started adding all of my corals back. I have too many to name. I will try to my attach a video or a few photos for everybody to pick through and see.
anyhow,
Last night I Fell asleep messing with my apex coding.
forgot I turned my alkalinity DOS dosing pump on.
woke up to a bowl of milk.
Precipitate on everything. Glass is like it grew fingernails, thick calcification.
Figured I would use this as documentation and hopefully a guide for anyone that goes through this problem in the future go ahead give me your tips and tricks along the way and we can see if we can bring this bad boy back to life.
A little information on the tank is 120 gallon aquarium typical 120 typical dimensions custom built stand the tank has an eclipse L overflow with two three-quarter returns dc pump. 800gph. below the tank is a 40 gallon sump with a reef octopus 8 skimmer I don’t really like to run micron socks, unless I see an issue that requires them but I do have the ability for 2 socks in the sump. . There’s also a fuge with CHAETO in it as well as a few other macroalgae’s not really too much to the sump. There’s also a 10 gallon ro reservoir.
The entire system is powered by my Apex controller with every module connected to it possible. the skimmer has a scrubber attached to the intake. There is also a carbon scrubber running. I can post pictures of the sump as well.
now about the issue at hand
My tank received about a months worth of alkalinity in 10 hours. 200 mL every 30 minutes while I was sleeping. What I don’t understand is how it only raised my alkalinity level not even two points. I have yet to bust out my API test kit and test the alkalinity because I’m wondering if the heavy precipitate clogged up my trident. I will come back and edit this thread as I continue to test currently I am driving on my way to my LFS as I only had about 15 gallons of salt mix and I want to set up a 50 gallon drum with worth my spare DOS and have it change the 50 gallons over a period of about nine days.
anyhow,
Last night I Fell asleep messing with my apex coding.
forgot I turned my alkalinity DOS dosing pump on.
woke up to a bowl of milk.
Precipitate on everything. Glass is like it grew fingernails, thick calcification.
Figured I would use this as documentation and hopefully a guide for anyone that goes through this problem in the future go ahead give me your tips and tricks along the way and we can see if we can bring this bad boy back to life.
A little information on the tank is 120 gallon aquarium typical 120 typical dimensions custom built stand the tank has an eclipse L overflow with two three-quarter returns dc pump. 800gph. below the tank is a 40 gallon sump with a reef octopus 8 skimmer I don’t really like to run micron socks, unless I see an issue that requires them but I do have the ability for 2 socks in the sump. . There’s also a fuge with CHAETO in it as well as a few other macroalgae’s not really too much to the sump. There’s also a 10 gallon ro reservoir.
The entire system is powered by my Apex controller with every module connected to it possible. the skimmer has a scrubber attached to the intake. There is also a carbon scrubber running. I can post pictures of the sump as well.
now about the issue at hand
My tank received about a months worth of alkalinity in 10 hours. 200 mL every 30 minutes while I was sleeping. What I don’t understand is how it only raised my alkalinity level not even two points. I have yet to bust out my API test kit and test the alkalinity because I’m wondering if the heavy precipitate clogged up my trident. I will come back and edit this thread as I continue to test currently I am driving on my way to my LFS as I only had about 15 gallons of salt mix and I want to set up a 50 gallon drum with worth my spare DOS and have it change the 50 gallons over a period of about nine days.
