Recent content by surferjoe86

thanks for all the replies, I dose everything an hour apart, I will increase that time. I'm wanting those high levels due to what I have read about Red Sea's tests on coral growth. I'm also really struggling to see coraline growth. Cheers joe

Hi thanks for the quick response I have very little coral at the moments 3 small sps colonies in a 300 liter system. I lost a lot with the freak uk hot weather, I have increased the Mag and Alk accordingly to account for the drop. I'm just not sure why it would drop that much in 5 days...

Hi I've been dosing my tank with Mag, Alk, Cal I'm trying to get my parameters stable at: 1380 mag 12 D/KH 450 Cal I keep a record of all my tests. in 5 days my parameters went from 1380 to 1200 12.6 to 8.8 465 to 465 even while dosing the correct amounts to account for coral usage ( I...

cheers for that. I have just completed the test in this way. I used the full ml of soloution = 15 D/Kh doubled 30?? another water change is in order. Thanks joe

cheers for the quick replies I calculated that figure, my test kit only goes up to 15. I doubled the amount of the test solution (syringe in salifert kit) but solution wouldn't change color. I will do another large water change tomorrow morning and test again. thanks again Joe

hi Basically I have been using the Balling lite method for over 3 months without a hickup. I woke up this morning to find that 4 liters of my D/kh buffer (Brightwell aquatics alkalin 8.3-p KH buffer) solution had been pumped into my tank through the night!!! 1ml of the mixture raises 4liters...

cheer's for the fast reply's I changed my 3 pre filters and DI resin about 3 months ago... I have a TDS meter reading 220 in and 7 out.. is 7 acceptable? Or do i need to change the actual RO filter. I've read that if you change the pre filters often enought they can last years? I've only had...

hey My current set up in totals is 404 liters including tanks and sump (main tank 240 liters) the system has a DIY auto top off RO and auto salt water change. The salt water change happens daily in small amounts and is 25% over 3 weeks. Here are my perameters. I'm all set to do a 40% water...

Here's my peramaters SG 0.0125 Ph 8.18 Nitrate 0ppm Phosphate 0.75 Dkh 190mg/l Calcium 520ppm Magnesium 1500 I'm dosing kalk in auto top off to up Ph as it was 7.8 and to help calcium levels... and dosing vodka to reduce Phos. Corals and fish seem happy. But is it okay to have such high MAG...

I know Marine Ich has probably been covered a million times but here’s my issue… I have a 240l tank 40l sump UV sterilizer Skimmer Phosphate reactor Fair amount of LR All nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, phosphate levels are low and stable Temp 26c 8.2 Ph Stock 1...

I recently got myself a fluval 240 roma. I've set it up as a marine tank everything is running great. Used my old aquarium water everything happy. My question is about lights, The tank came with 2, 48" 18000k 40w T8's (aqua-glo and marine-glo) I've since added 2 more of the above tubes making 4...

hey From the start I had an issue with nitite about 4 days about. it went upto .5ppm! I got it down with 3 20% water changes. It's now at 0ppm all other perameters are as they should be 2 days before this problem I added a blue Trigger fish. I checked my water due to 2 fish dieing. A coral...

All i have done recently is put a new oveflow box in the side? I may possibly have overfed??? I couldn't see any excess uneaten food though?? Will do another water change... All the fish seem happy. The Trigger is swimming round like he owns the place. cheers Joe

yeah I need some more LV But i fall into the trap of buying fish instead :) Im using a liquid test kit (nutrafin) Just done a test and I have 0.5ppm ammonia 5.0ppm Nitrate (usually 0 till today) 0.25ppm Nitrite I feel really bad about it :( The guy at the LFS assured me they'd be okay. My...

I have a 150 liter aquarium 75 liter sump skimmer phosphate remover 20000k Hilide 2 wave makers heat at 25c SG 0.024 nitrate close to 0 ammonia 0 ph 8.4 NITRITE .25ppm Phosphate 0.25ppm My tank has been set up and running for 6 months now I keep gettin upto .25ppm Nitrite after about 5 days...