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This is what the water looks like after I rinsed the Chemi-pure.

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Added the Fritz Turbo Start 900. I will start dosing Dr. Tim’s ammonia tomorrow.
 
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Added the Fritz Turbo Start 900. I will start dosing Dr. Tim’s ammonia tomorrow.
I ordered Dr. Tim's ammonia chloride and the bottle said to dose 4 drops per gallon so I did. However, I watched one of his videos and he said 5 drops per 10 gallons and that is a huge difference. I was worried but luckily for me the Fritz Turbo Start 900 handled it all in a couple of days. All of my parameters are looking good so hopefully I can add a pair of clownfish next week.
 
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Day 12 First diatoms appear on top of rock closest to the surface. I added another heater because I am having trouble keeping the tank at 77° even though I am using an Inkbird controller. I have been dosing with microbacter seven for the past six days.
Temp 75.4°
Salinity 1.026
PH 8.0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5.0
Ammonia .25
 
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I am not get much flow at all with my stock pump. I added 1/2 Loc-line witha Y fitting attached to three knuckles on each side with two flow generators and I barely have any flow. Should I upgrade the pump and if so what is the best pump replacement for the Biocube 32?
 
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I did my first water change tonight and added the In Tank fuge basket with Chaeto and a fuge light I velcro to the back of the tank. I am running the fuge light for 12 hours opposite the tank lights schedule. I added some pods from my LFS to the fuge too.
 
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Day 34: The tank has been a little cloudy so I added a Hydor Koralia 750/850 gph powerhead for some surface agitation and I also added an air stone to the return chamber to try to raise my pH a little. It has been staying around 7.8 and I would like for it to be a round 8.2.
 
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I forgot to post that I added the Sicce Syncra 2.0 return pump along with the loc line flow generators on February 19.
 
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The pumps and power head are turned off so all of the occupants come to the front right corner because they know that means it’s feeding time.
 

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