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Wow just read a thread online about pH reducers affecting phosphate levels. I just checked mine and the levels are through the roof! Am going to water change a huge amount and stop using pH down. I think I'll just leave the pH at what ever it sits at naturally.
Just did a little test and added enough of this pH Down to a small jug of water to bring the pH down to 5.30 and strangely the dKH went way up to 16.
This is not what I expected.
Hi all,
I have just cycled my new 250 litre tank and have done a water change so ammonia, nitrites and nitrates are all zero. Now I am trying to get the pH to sit at 7.0 by using a product by AquaOne called pH Down (basically sodium bisulphate). I am getting very strange results and am hoping...
So I have set up my new 200L tank with 50L sump. Everything on this tank I built from scratch including the sump. Can't wait to get back to marine and try it with some coral. Here's some photos anyway.
Notice the small amount of turkey meat in the sump. Trying to do a quick...
Well since the last post which was ages ago, I managed to get a few corals. The SPS died due to lack of light, and the LPS seemed to struggle a bit. I then bought 4x 54W T5 lights and a new 200L (50gal?) tank and plumbed it up with an internal overflow etc. This would have made the fish and...
I'm having a similar problem with my tank. It's been running fine for months and now there are fairly big patches of green hair algae all over the rocks. My phosphate and nitrate levels are reading zero too but I guess that's because the algae is using it all. I have a lawnmower bleeny but he...
Hi all, I'm just wanting to hear from anybody running one of these skimmers and what size air pump are they using to run it. I think the air pump I have is too small and it's still not skimming after 2 weeks.
Hmm ok I am mixing at the 2tsp/gal ration and still getting this sludge. I tried using a the aquarium controller to dose the Kalk to keep the pH at 8.15 but it chews through more than 5L in 8 hours. This empties my reservoir so I guess maybe I need a bigger reservoir. Is there such thing as...
Does anybody know if you can mix the left over kalkwasser sludge in the bottom of the ATO reservoir with new water and just keep using it to top up your tank or is this mix not actually Kalk and needs tipping out?
I only ask because my tank has very very little evaporation and I have to...