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Tank parameters.
Alkalinity, stable.
Calcium, yeesh... dosed 300ml of calcium chloride solution. Enough to bring up my Ca by 50ppm per the BRS calculator going off of the 60g total water volume figured out by reverse engineering my alk dose.
Magnesium looks good from where I had to dose it up the other week.
Salinity is a bit low, added 1 gallon of 1.026 to 3 gallons of RODI in top off. We'll let the salinity come up slow and keep an eye on it.
Nitrates, I finally have nitrates. Now let's not blow past where we want them and keep them in the 5ppm range.
Phosphates. 0.01-0 range. Too low. Lost JKR Wild Irish Rose last night to RTN, but it has been looking like it would let go any minute. Too long with high phosphates, then slammed thru the floor probably did it in. JKR Apocalypse Now still looks good, trachy was sulking today along with my trumpets. Blue Sympodium fully open, but not as vibrant as usual. GFO is removed from sump.
I also stuck my arm in the tank and manually scraped the sides and back with the blade on my Flipper Nano. It isn't strong enough thru 1/2" glass to get all the stubborn film algae off. I need to order the regular size Flipper. The back glass was covered in very hard film algae and a little gha. That is all gone. I added a filter sock to catch all the debris and will remove it tonight before bed.
Alkalinity, stable.
Calcium, yeesh... dosed 300ml of calcium chloride solution. Enough to bring up my Ca by 50ppm per the BRS calculator going off of the 60g total water volume figured out by reverse engineering my alk dose.
Magnesium looks good from where I had to dose it up the other week.
Salinity is a bit low, added 1 gallon of 1.026 to 3 gallons of RODI in top off. We'll let the salinity come up slow and keep an eye on it.
Nitrates, I finally have nitrates. Now let's not blow past where we want them and keep them in the 5ppm range.
Phosphates. 0.01-0 range. Too low. Lost JKR Wild Irish Rose last night to RTN, but it has been looking like it would let go any minute. Too long with high phosphates, then slammed thru the floor probably did it in. JKR Apocalypse Now still looks good, trachy was sulking today along with my trumpets. Blue Sympodium fully open, but not as vibrant as usual. GFO is removed from sump.
I also stuck my arm in the tank and manually scraped the sides and back with the blade on my Flipper Nano. It isn't strong enough thru 1/2" glass to get all the stubborn film algae off. I need to order the regular size Flipper. The back glass was covered in very hard film algae and a little gha. That is all gone. I added a filter sock to catch all the debris and will remove it tonight before bed.
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