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    My giant colony of green trumpets mysteriously split in half, could the colony break the main original stem in half? I will post a photo when I get home from work.,

    Dosing and chemistry

    in Reef Chemistry

    Posted

    Unless I've totally missed an area of this hobby, there is no reason to maintain any kind of order when it comes to testing.

     

    Now in regards to correcting parameters, I would think there would be an order. If ammonia tests positive, I'd say that's first issue to tackle. Temp and salinity would be at the top. Unless pH is way out of wack I wouldn't see any use in adjusting that. The big three would all depend on how far off they were. I'd say alk first as that drops the fastest, then calcium, then magnesium. Although if magnesium is way of, it'll be tough to balance the other two. I'd tackle those three together.

    I discovered that my mag had dropped way low. And lately been having trouble keeping ca and alk balanced.

     

     

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    Dosing Issues

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    No wonder I wasn't having luck keeping my calcium at the right level....I got sloppy and didn't double check my work when mixing up my calcium supplement by half.

     

    So lesson learned double check yourself before you wreck yourself.

     

     

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    Hello! New (soon to be hopefully) Reefer

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    Thanks for all the advice.

     

    I am definitely aware that it will end up quite a bit past the 2k budget. My goal is to get all the expensive framework out of the way so i can add in less expensive things later without having to put out a bunch of money at once. :)

     

    Reefbilly thanks for the suggestion on the pump and rock, it sounds like good advice, i dont need rock until a little later anyways so that might be the way to go.

     

    Leaning towards the Reef Breeders Photon V2 24" for now, found a couple threads where people say it works fine and its on sale for 350ish right now so that helps out the budget but i think is still a good light.

     

    Plumbing looks like a pain, i dont suppose anyone has a link to a good step by step process for plumbing the overflow to the sump?

    Something I wish I had put on my plumbing was a gate valve to control water from the overflow into the sump. To allow for fine tuning. Ball valves I can mess with 100 times back and forth and still not hit the spot I want.

     

     

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    Increasing PH by Decreasing CO2

    in General Discussion

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    Just do what I do and never measure pH. Problem solved. I think I measured my pH a little over a year ago, no idea what it was. I ran a probe in my reactor for about a month when I first set it up. I dropped the probe and broke it. Now I'm just on that steady freestyle!

    I don't ever measure ph either I may have with a bad test kit at the very beginning.

     

     

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    Increasing PH by Decreasing CO2

    in General Discussion

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    Hey Ninja,

     

    For what its worth...

     

    I really recommend Kalk reactors, here's why.

     

    They push clean water through the kalk vs drawing kalk water into the pump

     

    Otherwise the pumps take a beating sucking up the Kalk water and eventually fail.

     

    I used this approach with aqualifter (past) and peristaltic pumps (current).

     

    You can DIY a kalk reactor pretty easily if you can place it high enough to gravity feed the sump. Of course watch for siphon issues.

     

     

    https://www.google.com/search?q=diy+kalk+reactor&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=950&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj90fyYjfDRAhVP8WMKHdOcAhIQsAQIJg

    I have an extra unused dosing pump that I could set up. I have lots of extra Kalk and maybe it could give me a a little boost on dosing.

     

     

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    Increasing PH by Decreasing CO2

    in General Discussion

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    Here is an interesting alternative.

     

    I once had an external intake for my skimmer. It did not do much to the PH.

     

    So I added a co2 monitor to my office, where the aquarium is. When Co2 gets too high, I just crack a window.

     

    Turns out that is not very often. When I am over 800 ppm I crack the window but our house must be drafty enough.

     

    The biggest PH impact for me was running Kalk in the topoff water. That absolutely trumped the skimmer fresh air intake.

    All for what its worth, just sharing ideas.

     

    Good luck!

    In your experience would it be ok to put Kalk in ato with a small power head to keep it well stirred?

     

     

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    Increasing PH by Decreasing CO2

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I also have a low PH issue. It hovers around 8 but dips down to 7.9 at night. Not horribly low, but I'd love to have it up about 8.1 all the time. There are so many contributing factors that I have no idea how to judge what the cause is. I have a 29 biocube in the same room which stays at 8.2-8.3. My guess is something with surface area to water volume.

     

    I used a Co2 scrubber and it worked great...gives you a little bump (maybe .1 or so). I just i didn't have the room and it kept getting knocked around. But it's a solid option.

     

    Or - kalk up your ATO reservoir. That takes a bit more fine tuning.

    I have wanted to use some kalk in my ATO but I am always worried that it will plug up my ato pump.

    Crazy emerald crab

    in General Discussion

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    I'm trying to figure out whether my emerald crab is eating some of my smaller fish.

    I think he got stuck up there and was waiting for the right time to make his move. Although with claws out like that kinda looked like he was fishing.

     

    When I first put the crabs in there I didn't think they would last the night with the curious melanarus.

     

     

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