Marine lab test results thoughts.

cchomistek · Feb 12, 2018

Aquaforest sends a control sample that they test that I will double check tonight.

I will test for stray voltage aswell. Highly doubt that is it but you are correct you never know.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Feb 12, 2018

cchomistek said:
Any thoughts what could be causing the issue @Randy Holmes-Farley

I don't see a specific reason for it, but there are loads of possibilities and people often never know why.

Cory · Feb 12, 2018

cchomistek said:
Aquaforest sends a control sample that they test that I will double check tonight.

I will test for stray voltage aswell. Highly doubt that is it but you are correct you never know.

Checking that is fine but i seriously dont have faith in compaines icps tests and their control standars.

Go to a grocery store, buy a box of arm and hammer baking soda. Go to the pharmacist, ask him to weigh out 1.135 grams and give it to you. Then go and get 1 gallon of ro/di or distilled water and put it in and shake it up. Do an alkalinity test on this. You might be surprised. And if not at least you know for sure how accurate that alkalinity test is.

cchomistek · Feb 12, 2018

Cory said:
If you cant find something chemically look elsewhere. Whats your lighting? How intense and how long? What color temp?

Lighting I have 8 bulb t5 ATI hybrid. I will have to double check on amount of time. I only bring it to about 60% on blues and 50% on whites and LEDs are on to about 50%. I could drop that back and see if anything changes. I increased the intensity about 10% when I put the sps in. The light is about 10" off the water. It is alot of light but I would not think too much.

cchomistek · Feb 12, 2018

Cory said:
Checking that is fine but i seriously dont have faith in compaines icps tests and their control standars.

Go to a grocery store, buy a box of arm and hammer baking soda. Go to the pharmacist, ask him to weigh out 1.135 grams and give it to you. Then go and get 1 gallon of ro/di or distilled water and put it in and shake it up. Do an alkalinity test on this. You might be surprised. And if not at least you know for sure how accurate that alkalinity test is.

I can definitely do that aswell. Would be interesting to see.

What do you use to test your parameters??

Cory · Feb 12, 2018

cchomistek said:
I can definitely do that aswell. Would be interesting to see.

What do you use to test your parameters??

Most of my tests are salifert. Some are api to double check salifert is right. You can also double check with another kit too if the standard thing is too much.

Cory · Feb 12, 2018

cchomistek said:
Lighting I have 8 bulb t5 ATI hybrid. I will have to double check on amount of time. I only bring it to about 60% on blues and 50% on whites and LEDs are on to about 50%. I could drop that back and see if anything changes. I increased the intensity about 10% when I put the sps in. The light is about 10" off the water. It is alot of light but I would not think too much.

T5s are generally considered good.when did you change the bulbs last?