Yesterday was maintenance day.
I had not touched the tank for over 2 weeks except for some glass cleaning and nothing else actually.
The calcium reactor was still acting strange as the CO2 chamber was still creating a lot of foam.
Figured that after 1 year service some maintenance might be due so cleaned the complete first stage, including pump, CO2 chamber and new media.
Things look better now.
From this
To this
I also did a 15% water change and cleaned the skimmer.
The skimmer was off. I had not noticed that after the black out of last week, the controller did not return to the last setting as the return pump had done.
So about 6 days the tank was running without skimmer.
Parameters tested:
KH 9.3dkh A little to high but probably due to the malfunctioning CO2 chamber
Ca 420ppm
Mg 1260ppm extra Mg added
NO3 5ppm
PO4 0.01ppm
I hope KH falls back to 7.6dkh and we are back on track.
Monthly FTS coming soon.
I had not touched the tank for over 2 weeks except for some glass cleaning and nothing else actually.
The calcium reactor was still acting strange as the CO2 chamber was still creating a lot of foam.
Figured that after 1 year service some maintenance might be due so cleaned the complete first stage, including pump, CO2 chamber and new media.
Things look better now.
From this
To this
I also did a 15% water change and cleaned the skimmer.
The skimmer was off. I had not noticed that after the black out of last week, the controller did not return to the last setting as the return pump had done.
So about 6 days the tank was running without skimmer.
Parameters tested:
KH 9.3dkh A little to high but probably due to the malfunctioning CO2 chamber
Ca 420ppm
Mg 1260ppm extra Mg added
NO3 5ppm
PO4 0.01ppm
I hope KH falls back to 7.6dkh and we are back on track.
Monthly FTS coming soon.