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Sorry for the loss
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Thanks. I need to email them and see if it hits their arrive alive standards.Sorry for the loss
everything else looks good though. got a coral on one rock that had pe last night when I moved if rom the landing tank to the display. I should move the sponge rock over too.
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I just tested my tank too!Some highs some lows...
That's 118ppm alk, not 18 dkh...
Calc: 380
Mag: too high to test
Calcium 480
Alk 8.4
Phosphate 0.34
Nitrate too high to test
Magnesium 1210
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Well in my second tank I just got 1.56 Phosphate and Nitrate off the chart. All the carbon dosing, GFO and lanthium chloride and my values go up…I just tested my tank too!
Calcium 480
Alk 8.4
Phosphate 0.34
Nitrate too high to test
Magnesium 1210
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I started dosing vinegar...
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I mixed my carbon with nitrate but I think I got my math and this the mixture horribly wrong
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Ah well. Big water change being prepared.
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Id rather have high mag than nitrates. But I too have started carbon dosing but haven't noticed a change. I should ge an auto doser. shame I didn't win one at the last club meeting.I just tested my tank too!
Calcium 480
Alk 8.4
Phosphate 0.34
Nitrate too high to test
Magnesium 1210
I should do that this weekend...
I have a doser I haven't even set up yet. Automated things intimidate me. I prefer dumping and saying a prayer method.
Automated things intimidate me. I prefer dumping and saying a prayer method.
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the issue for me is the remembering to dump.I have a doser I haven't even set up yet.
my alk dosing is just a healthy squeeze from the bottle into the flow.
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I only think about feeding on a daily basis. its freeing.
I just use baking soda and hope to remember about every other day.
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I think about feeding daily, act on that most but not all of the time.
I made a solution of baked baking soda (don't use the air frier on the bake setting for this, it acts as a convection oven and will make a mess you then need to clean up) and water.I just use baking soda and hope to remember about every other day.
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I actually bumped my vinegar up yesterday.Id rather have high mag than nitrates. But I too have started carbon dosing but haven't noticed a change. I should ge an auto doser. shame I didn't win one at the last club meeting.
I should do that this weekend...
I've got a doser with 4 heads but two of them are used for keeping my overflow U-Tubes primed.
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I doubled the dose yesterday too, then forgot today's morning 10ml. so oops
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So I'm trying to wrap my head around @Randy Holmes-Farley's diy dosing method. so far I got:
part 1) 395g (maybe that's the number) baked baking soda, aka. soda ash pr gallon
part 2) calcium chloride in solution. what's the ration though and will this (https://www.homedepot.com/p/50-lb-C...ickid=RBzXrUws:xyPWFzxw:UL1VKgUkFWwUXQ6WxOWc0) work over spending more for 7# through brs?
part 3) this https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petco...74132c95d3cc12dfd87a498ed7e63c16&gclsrc=3p.ds mixed 8 scoops pr gallon.
all dosed 1:1:1.
part 1) 395g (maybe that's the number) baked baking soda, aka. soda ash pr gallon
part 2) calcium chloride in solution. what's the ration though and will this (https://www.homedepot.com/p/50-lb-C...ickid=RBzXrUws:xyPWFzxw:UL1VKgUkFWwUXQ6WxOWc0) work over spending more for 7# through brs?
part 3) this https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petco...74132c95d3cc12dfd87a498ed7e63c16&gclsrc=3p.ds mixed 8 scoops pr gallon.
all dosed 1:1:1.
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