Kryptonite candy cane

So I've got a kryptonite candy cane and I absolutely love its colour. but it doesn't seem very happy right now and I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips to help it come back to awesomeness

I've had it for 2-3 weeks, tank parameters are:, temp 76-78.5 salinity is 1.025 calc is over 500 ppm, not sure how high though cause my test kit doesnt read higher than that. PH at last test was around 9.2 I think. PH tests have been rather unreliable for me because I havent been able to get a consistent reading, seemingly due to operator error of the test kit and mag is about 1300.

better pic of the candy cane

Sorry I meant alk when I said PH. Tank has been going about 2 months now

Edited by Crash2070 - March 01 2013 at 4:23pm

ok, so how should I do that target feeding? I dont have any of those materials but I can go buy some pretty easy. I hope I can get this thing looking awesome again

Alright, thanks I'll give that a try, now to head off the the store to get some of that food stuff. also off to learn how to boost my PH a little bit. Thanks again guys

if you want to raise that PH you can buy a buffer or use some baked baking soda (1 hour at 350 in oven) which will also raise up your alk, 1 teapsoon disolvled in some RO water (1 cup is fine) each day will raise 50gal 1.7 dkh...try to not raise it by more than 1 dkh in 12 hours. (Store unsued baked baking soda in air tight tupperware) The mixed solution will have a super high PH which will raise up your PH but usually not a long term solution and it will go back down unless you find the cause. Dont go above 12 dkh for Alk. Change things slowly and try feeding it and get the PH up wd be my advice, the PH shouldnt be that low, do you have the water surface disturbed to properly airate the water, is it in a place that has no fresh air? or lots of home heating?

Edited by Bryce - March 01 2013 at 4:45pm

Ammonia is 0

Thats good that nitrate is undetectable but could be a false positive, that would be very unusual for a tank so new to have such low nitrate but its not impossible, especially when your rocks look so clean, again not impossible just unusual.

You know it moss. I love that aquascaping. As for ph its actually 7.88. Turns out i wasnt using the ph probe correctly. So now its functioning correctly. Ill give it a few days before i try and tweak the ph any