MKFMedic
Aquarium Advice Activist
So over the last three weeks I have started, cycled and set up a 12 gal nano reef tank. After many forum discussions and advice from all the fantastic and experienced resources here at the site, I've progressed nicely and now have a Percula Clown and Watchman Goby with four small pieces of coral in my tank. All seems well, water specs have been good. When I ventured into my local FS a yesterday I spoke at length with one of the owners regarding care of the soft coral.
Long story short, they sold me on supplements for the coral including calcium, strontium and magnesium. My water tested at 8.0 for the high level pH, so they also said that I should raise the pH in the tank to a minimum of 8.2 before using any of the supplements because in their words, "The corals wouldn't be able to actually process any of the supplements with a lower pH." So guess what, I bought a product to slowly raise my tank pH.
What do you guys think? Was this stuff necessary, will it help? A little or a lot? Oh and on a side note, what do you guys feed your perculas and goby's. I purchased some pellets, and some frozen misas(?) shrimp. Does the goby scrounge stuff off the bottom?
Anyway, thanks again for all of the support and guidance!
Mike
Long story short, they sold me on supplements for the coral including calcium, strontium and magnesium. My water tested at 8.0 for the high level pH, so they also said that I should raise the pH in the tank to a minimum of 8.2 before using any of the supplements because in their words, "The corals wouldn't be able to actually process any of the supplements with a lower pH." So guess what, I bought a product to slowly raise my tank pH.
What do you guys think? Was this stuff necessary, will it help? A little or a lot? Oh and on a side note, what do you guys feed your perculas and goby's. I purchased some pellets, and some frozen misas(?) shrimp. Does the goby scrounge stuff off the bottom?
Anyway, thanks again for all of the support and guidance!
Mike