Ok , that’s good info . I was going to use soft tube down through the floor into the basement and drill a hole through the window frame out into the window well. Yeah , hope it works?!! Thanks !
I have my skimmer connected to a one inch pvc pipe in my garage sump and runs about 25 feet to the attic. pH increased to 8.3. There was a slight change in air pressure to the skimmer running this distance, so I had to adjust the bubble height in the skimmer slightly.
I Jerry rigged a scrubber with a deli container and barb fittings, but, look at the co2 scrubber lids on the fish of hex website and look at a small phosban reactor to make your life a little easier to n the install.
I dose soda ash at a rate of only 6ml a day for 100 gallons system. That’s another issue I’m having. For some reason my Alk runs really high at close to 12 and I’m having to dose 72ml of mag just to get it up to about 1325 . Cal is stable at around 420. Excellent number huh ! Lol !
Yeah I’m dumping so much cash into this 100 gallon system already , really hate to add another reoccurring expense to this system!! But ,,,, the addiction to the hobby rages on ! I’ll probably do it anyway? Chasing that 8.3 number. Idk? My corals look good, color is awesome, but my growth continues to be slow.
Well, phosphate runs a little high but stable at 1 and no algae in the tank and my nitrate is stable between .05 and 1.0 . Don’t have room for any more equipment under the stand , I put some seachem phos bond in the sump the other day to see if I could bring the phos down a little
6 ml a day in 100 is pretty much nada. Is the salt you're using a high alk? What's the age of the tank and how many/what type coral do you have? What I'm leaning toward is raising ph via soda ash or kalkwasser but at that dosing rate it won't do much of anything.
I’m using the reef crystals salt the label doesn’t give the alk number but my salinity is steady at 1.025. This tank has been running for 1.5 years now. It’s a mixed reef with 25 small corals that consist of sps up high and lps on the lower half. It runs very stable, but I don’t know why I don’t see more uptake of the alk ? I know it’s too high at 11.5 or 12 . I’m getting growth but not nearly what I see them talking about on all the YouTube channels?
Ok yeah, I do daily auto water changes totaling 10 gallons a week. Tank looks awesome but the slow growth has been a head scratcher. Idk maybe my expectations are too high? I know BRS ran an experiment running high alk and claimed there was more growth but the corals were more fragile? Anyway appreciate all your input, I’ll keep tinkering with it. Probably do the co2 scrubber if I can find room?
Ditch all that and the soda ash and just top off with kalk! It will bring it up! More corals will help also! I have the same problem in Vegas as it’s 115 outside now so the house is sealed up! My kalk top off keeps my ph up there without any issues! I even added a fan to create more evap and it rose even higher with keeping my alk 10-11 and I use reef crystals.
