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thank you. yeah i use turbo ca to get me where i need to ,. im figuring out the consumption rate of my tank and teh balance of my pwc doses. thanks for all your help.

yeah i realize this. i have had my reef up for 6 years now and no problems. i m not going to house sps corals or any high maintenance corals. well see but as long as i live in my folks house.. they make the rules. i wish i could go to rodi even going to the lfs but its a hassle since its 10g a...

thanks i dont have anything really just some mushrooms polyps and a new piece of xenia i just got yesterday, when i do my pwc i use tropic marin salt so that gives me 320 ca and 1100 mag and 9 dkh. . my mag and ca is a tad low and i dont want to bring down the main tank parameters with...

hey everyone. my 55 g reef i have been trying to grow a massive amount of coraline. right now my ph is 8.3 mag is 1200 dkh 9 ca 360 i am starting to use b ionic But my alk is 9 and i dont think i need to change that. if i use both parts of the b ionic the alk and the ca part will it...

ok update i have turbo cal dosing to 380 now. my mag dosing has increased from 100ppm to 1200ppm. should i target it to 1300 to 1350ppm mag and 420 ca to balance out for good coraline growth? i cant buff out my ca untill my mag is where it should be right ? so my mag being at 1100...

isnt tropic marin one of the best salts because it contains 75 out of the 78 trace elements that other salts dont have to sustain a reef? that is found in oceans?

i use tropic marin salt . readings 1.025 sg 320 ca 9 dkh + 1100 mag 8.3 ph i have to buffer my mag then use turbo cal to get my ca up to 420 ish also using tap water

the only problem i have switching to ro/di is the cost of water and the waste. 1 gallon for every 5 gallons are good. so in my 60 gallon tank, i do about 15 gallons weekly pwc so thats 75 waste gallons of water each week not to mention top offs. i use tap water with conditioner and my tank...

from a different view with my massive coral banded shrimp.

thanks ! yeah i got my ca to 360 with 9 dkh i am dosing daily slowly at a time roughly 25 ppm increments. my dkh is staying stable and my mag is around 1100 ppm exactly where it should be at 360 ppm ca. hopefully in a week or 2 i can get my ca levels around 420 ish and hope for some...

ok so i tested my tank the day after of my pwc with tropic marin salt. 55 reef did a 20 percent change roughly 10g, ca 360 dkh 9 ph 8.4 mg 1100 no3, no4 po4, 0.0 i bought some kents turbo calc. going to try to get my ca up there to 420 ish i have a question i havd a KH test kit...

if i boost my ca will that drop my alk ? i need to lower my alk and raise my ca so maybe i can balance it out by raising my ca? is this true ?

thanks ! yeah i have the calculator from another post i have it all set . going to dose it. my alk kit is from seachem that has it in meg/l each drop is .5 meg/l and i had 10 drops or 11 so i took that divided by half since its .5 and got 5-6 meg/l

yes thanks, i had some coraline growing on specs on glass and rock. from time to time. i just started using tropic marin salt before i was using IO. this is actually the first day for my new complete pwc with TM salt. i tested for a high amount of alk, i will retest my tank and my pwc...

i mean my dkh is 12 i have a seperate alk kit tested 9meg/l or 450mg/l is it one in the same ? or different ? shouldnt my ca levels be around 400 ? i have had this setup for years and still no coraline. . is my alk out of wack ? i havent teste for mag yet.

ok my ca is at 380 ppm alk is 400mg/l and my kh is 214.80ppm i am using tap water in a 30g holding tank for 24hours before pwc using tropic marin salt . what should my readings pref be at ? and what additives should i get to get the right results? thanks want to get a good coraline...

i changed my pc lights replacements and it was good. i did one side then 3 weeks later i did the other. then 3 weeks after that i added a t5 fixture just 28 watts of it comming on and off with my actinics and the next day boom diatom bloom.

can someone please identify this algea on one of my rocks ,. good bad?

thanks everyone ill see how it goes, right now i have mushrooms and button polyps. i am planning oin getting some beginner stuff like xenia frogspawn torch coral ect . i have 4 x 65 pc 2 actinic and 2 10k and a 28w 48" true daylight pinkish t5 fixture that my mushrooms absolutly love...

yeah its what i am thinking . flame angels arent too cheap to buy either ,. it would be pretty to add to my reef ill see what happens. in the end ill have an eible angel mandarin, tomato clown, and possibly a flame angle or coral beauty.

hy guys i have an 55 gallon reef. i have had an eible angel and a mandarin. i wanted to know if i can add anymore angel fish such as a coral beauty or flame angel or is more than one angel a dangerous mix ? thanks

thanks all yah didnt mean to insult or anything . . i def think i released gasses by disturbing my dsb causing my no3 to go up . i added the filter really only to clear up the water and increase water turbulence. i am adding a sump with another dsb and chaeto to remove po4 and no3...

yeah i was just wondering if they made a different pc bulb that isnt 10k or actinic. i seen some that are 12k but i dont know if it will do much.

why woudl i need more lr in there ? its a 55 gallon with 70 lbs lr and a dsb . .. . . i have had this tank set up for years with no problems. the only reason i added the carbon was to clear up the water from my low intensity light from not changing the bulbs causing an algea bloom.. not...