You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
Recent content by MorayMadness
The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an interest in aquariums or fish keeping!
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
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...
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...
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...