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No - we were not and the tank just cycled. So - I did change today - and all the levels are normal with KH at 12 - so I think with weekly water changes this will even it out
I guess we should then wait a week - possibly two before we get coral and I think another touch of live rock that's...
What would the Superbuffer-dKH do? Would this make the PH Normal and keep the KH in check? We have a KH of 13 right now in a new tank.
Why am I asking? I just did a water change and hopefully it will lower. But the LFS said to use the Superbuffer-dKH and I think i used a little too much in our...
Update - cuprisorb took out the copper - we've added live rock 4 days ago and could our cycle be over already - the live rock was cured and yesterday we saw the nitrates spike a bit then come down.
We did use an entire thing of Bio-Spira prior to adding live rock.
Not sure what I'm looking...
Okay - update. We got our live rock today - and already I can see little critters - floral looking things on the rocks - so cool.
We have at least 3-4 good places for coral/other stuff.
Also the readings in our tank have all normalized prior to adding the live rock, and the cuprisorb removed...
Okay - all levels are back to normal - what about the PH being 7.8-8.0? Should this come up a little after we get live rock? Or is that the PH of the water?
Date: 11/30/08 Temp: 77 pH: 8 Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 0 Nitrite: 0 Magnesium: n/t GH: n/t
KH: n/t Salinity: 1.024 Alkalinity: n/t
Calcium...
Just picked up 2.5 gallons of RO/DI water. I'm going to use this to top off over the next few days as my salt is in the 1.026 range. If things don't work out by Wed - then I'll dump - and buy water and new live sand. This will get rid of having to use any of the stuff.
Thanks - as always being...
Roger that. I'm going to see if this works by WED. And if not - start over. But right now I've already done the cuprisorb and see if that fixes the water.
That's great advice. Thanks for this - I really don't want to get into an entire RO/DI setup.
Yep - once I get the water straight in the tank I have now - then I'll do this after the cycle. The live sand and stuff is cycling now - I didn't believe it - but it is.
And so it's a new tank - will the Cuprisorb and Poly Filter do the trick before we add live rock - etc? They said once the levels are gone - we'll be set to move forward. We want coral - etc. and we know the snails and other creatures won't live with the copper.
We used tap water to fill our BioCube 14 gallon. Currently we have 10lbs of live sand - and that's about it. We are using a Poly Filter along with the Carbon Filter.
We just got back from our LFS and there's trace amounts of copper - most likely from our tap water. We are using Cuprisorb to...
Also - we added the Bio-Spira today to get things going on the LFS advice.
So far we have Salt Water, Live Sand, two filters, a heater, Top Coat dechlorinator, and the CupriSorb to get rid of copper.
Okay - so we just got back from our LFS - and all of our water readings sans ammonia being a bit high as the tank is cycling - are good - except for copper.
Our copper levels from using our tap water are too hight, so we have cuprisorb and The Bag to remove the copper.
Bummer - we were hoping...