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Thanks! Def better than it was!

Just did testing after water change and all yesterday and only one giving me issues is maybe ALK

It is a bit varying between the salifert and hanna but still "safe" either way..

BUT good news FINALLY on nitrates!

I did a salifert and came up as 100+ still of course lol... but then I did a 1/2 tank and 1/2 rodi and it was between 25-50 reading whereas before it was still pretty dark/between 75-100

So I did a hanna nitrate test and it came up as 75... but NOT blinking 75 like usual.

So I did a half and half with it and came to 63.5!!! x2 = 135.. high but not AS HIGH lol!

So def making progress!
Hey glad you are making good progress on the Nitrates!!! Keep it up!
 
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Well Hola to those watching, waiting.. anticipating lol!

Finally a bit of time to get back to the tank. The last bit has been only doing ATO... periodically at that.. since last year+? It shows lol... a few pieces of coral holding on strong. Few z/p that are unopened, gsp (of course), Jawbreakers and WWC OG, Sunkist or whatever shrooms and that is about it. Fish are all still good.

Got some stuff BF/CM so we shall see how it goes.

Alk is like 5.56, sal is 1.024, phos at .01

Good news ish.. Nitrates are 105 so actually MUCH lower than I thought.. and that is after 2x cleaning sand bed/scraping old crap out a bit.

Dosed some alk to get it up to hopefully 6.56 to see how that effects stuff

I'll prob start dosing phos before doing a big water change, then after work the alk up so can start dosing all for reef again...
 

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