125 - Took Forever But Here It is!

[tbrown]

When I switched salts mine took 30 odd water changes to get it down. I didn't see any movement for at least the first 5.

Nope, mine is the stupid tap water. City is sending me 12.5 alk and my salt adds another 8.3... I was raising my alk with my ATO and doing water changes would just make it worse.

 

[Mschmidt]

Good luck getting it down.

 

[tbrown]

Good luck getting it down.

Muriatic acid for now until I get the fittings to hook up my RO.

 

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I was perusing Instagram and Lazy Coffee Designs has posted a $10 GC. I went ahead and ordered a couple of stickers. $0.97 for shipping and my daughter has two new stickers.

 

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We've got at least two new Duncan heads popping out of the mother.

 

[Goaway]

 

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Merry Christmas!!!

 

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Scooby Doo doesn't look good. Probably not going to make it. The Orange Blast is hairy and colorful. Appears healthy and happy. Creature is not as hairy, looks fairly healthy and appears to be coloring up. Brought the Alk down from 10.1 to 9.3. working to bring it down to around 8.5. I might bring the calcium up a little tomorrow to see if that lowers it some. We're sitting at 420, so decent but I'd love to see 450.

 

[tbrown]

Also, in the meantime I'm going to start dosing some phosphates.

 

[billyocean]

Also, in the meantime I'm going to start dosing some phosphates.

Coral nom noms

 

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Coral nom noms

What do you use?

 

[billyocean]

Brightwell neophos.

 

[tbrown]

Brightwell neophos.

That's the one I was looking at but can't find a dosing chart.

 

[tbrown]

That's the one I was looking at but can't find a dosing chart.

Nevermind - Amazon says 1 drop per gallon is approximately 0.06 ppm.

 

[billyocean]

4.7 ml per 125 gallons raises po4 by .01. A capfull is 5 ml. Just buy the 2 liter bottle.

 

[billyocean]

I think i said it before..but test daily when you start adding. At saturation point of your rocks the dosing level will level out. Until then it will be absorbed and drop pretty quick after adding and on the flip it will spike when you saturate and are still dosing heavy. Mine is leveled at 23 ml per day on doser. Depending on the day it can test .02/.04---.08/.1 but I know from dosing it's never zero.

 

[tbrown]

Neophos ordered. It'll be here Wednesday, hopefully sooner. I'll have my alk down and can start getting detectable phosphates.

 

[Stang67]

Neophos ordered. It'll be here Wednesday, hopefully sooner. I'll have my alk down and can start getting detectable phosphates.

Have to order some myself and set up a doser for a Vaca. I think once you hit the sweet spot for phos you will see a decrease in nitrates as well. So be sure you test those also

 

[Mschmidt]

Merry Christmas!