Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[Why-Me]

@living_tribunal
Thank you so much for all the great coral food!!

 

[JoshH]

I’ll figure something out where I can move the pump back in place. I just have the pump and airline tube though.

Could I almost just stick that in my hob filter with like a small pump outlet thing? I think the air pump just pumps little bursts of air.

That will more than likely work, even placing the tube under the powerhead would work well, the powerhead would chop the bubble up into smaller ones and because it's not a constant stream of air, you won't have to deal with too many micro bubbles sticking to everything

 

[living_tribunal]

@living_tribunal
Thank you so much for all the great coral food!!

THANK YOU for all of the help when I started this hobby. I wouldn’t have had my tank up if it wasn’t for you.

 

[Why-Me]

THANK YOU for all of the help when I started this hobby. I wouldn’t have had my tank up if it wasn’t for you.

You're welcome dude!
Make sure to do the same to a noob someday...frag it forward

 

[living_tribunal]

That will more than likely work, even placing the tube under the powerhead would work well, the powerhead would chop the bubble up into smaller ones and because it's not a constant stream of air, you won't have to deal with too many micro bubbles sticking to everything

I hooked up the old pump I first bought for this tank and it worked.

It’s not as good as an air pump but pushes small bursts of bubbles like this once every second and allows me to put the powerhead back in place.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

13dkh and no, I don’t messs with that stuff nor dose, I don’t have to.

Is there a setup I can do with just airline tube @JoshH @Robin Haselden

13 is WAY too high. Get that back down to 10 or under. Probably why your duncans are ticked off.

Look up a wood air "stone". Those give you the micro bubbles.

 

[Magellan]

13 is WAY too high. Get that back down to 10 or under. Probably why your duncans are ticked off.

Look up a wood air "stone". Those give you the micro bubbles.

I’m wondering that without dosing, how in the world is it that high? Could that be related to the P04 issue?

(the salt mix is the only other thing I could think of, and maybe that’s why water changes irritate those corals)

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I’m wondering that without dosing, how in the world is it that high? Could that be related to the P04 issue?

(the salt mix is the only other thing I could think of, and maybe that’s why water changes irritate those corals)

@living_tribunal
Red sea black bucket can sometimes mix that high. Stratified salt could mix even higher, doing a water change will only raise the tank more. Need to make fresh salt mix and test all parameters. Ca, Alk, Mg, NO3 and PO4

 

[sfin52]

@living_tribunal
Red sea black bucket can sometimes mix that high. Stratified salt could mix even higher, doing a water change will only raise the tank more. Need to make fresh salt mix and test all parameters. Ca, Alk, Mg, NO3 and PO4

Please explain stratified salt.

 

[Why-Me]

Please explain stratified salt.

salt mix settles as it sits in the bucket and the heavier of the minerals in the mix sit a the bottom and the mix isn't mixed up good enough so the bottom of bucket or bag can get rich with those minerals and cause swings in your tank.

 

[Why-Me]

I made 40 gal yesterday did a salinity test 1.026 perfect, checked alk with hannah checker 7.5 exactly.
I love TMP salt!!
Just has somewhat low alk so I spike my brute can to 9.5 and run the tank at 8.0-9.0 dkH. Making WC simple, my alk raises back to 9 every time I do WC.
This has been working well for me.
I start at 9.0 and 6-7 days later I'm at 8.0 and do WC and am back up to 8.8 to 9.0

 

[sfin52]

salt mix settles as it sits in the bucket and the heavier of the minerals in the mix sit a the bottom and the mix isn't mixed up good enough so the bottom of bucket or bag can get rich with those minerals and cause swings in your tank.

So when I roll shake the bucket before every use is a good thing. And I was doing it because I believed settling was occuring. I'm a frickin genius and was clueless the whole time.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Please explain stratified salt.

So, ref salt is a bunch of different minerals. In mixing, shipping, storage, ect... different minerals weight different amounts and are different sizes.

Take a bag of dog food, crumble up half of it and then pour each back in the bag. It'll be pretty mixed up at first, but tank that bag and shake it a few times and drop it on the floor a few more. All the fine stuff will filter to the bottom and the larger pieces will settle out on top.

Salt manufactures use a type of clay dirt to try and bind the minerals and keep them from getting stratified. Mix some salt and leave it in the barrel, you'll have a brown film in the barrel. It's not slime or algae, it's clay.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

salt mix settles as it sits in the bucket and the heavier of the minerals in the mix sit a the bottom and the mix isn't mixed up good enough so the bottom of bucket or bag can get rich with those minerals and cause swings in your tank.

What he said... lol

 

[sfin52]

So that's what the brown is the in my bucket. Interesting. Thoughts on reef crystals. That's what I run in my tank.

 

[Why-Me]

Thoughts on reef crystals.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

So that's what the brown is the in my bucket. Interesting. Thoughts on reef crystals. That's what I run in my tank.

I think it's considered in the lower end of salt mixes. Your KIA or Hundai if you will... but its consistent from what I've heard.

 

[Why-Me]

I think it's considered in the lower end of salt mixes. Your KIA or Hundai if you will... but its consistent from what I've heard.

+1
Nothin wrong with IO salt

 

[Magellan]

I just learned so much. I’ve been doing something right and not even knowing it..really good to know what that brown stuff is in the bucket though! Thanks @Why-Me and @Robin Haselden !!

 

[sfin52]

I think it's considered in the lower end of salt mixes. Your KIA or Hundai if you will... but its consistent from what I've heard.

I'm ok with Kia or hundai.