Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[living_tribunal]

When you accidentally overpour salt on a large saltwater batch at 7pm and have to wait many hours for more ro/di before you can do your water change

 

[living_tribunal]

Do share! Also, dosing by hand is completely fine. just do it every day around the same time and keep it consistent. Start small like @Robin Haselden said,
Don’t try to do any math and get your alk/Ca exactly where you want it the first time. I was really intimidated too when I first started out, but it’s really no big deal at all. If you can feed your corals you can dose your water.

Well I’m of course going to do the math to get things squared off nicely. I’m not going to just start dosing at some predefined limit and spot check it every few days.

Y’all saw how I handled phosphates, stay tuned for my alkalinity compulsiveness.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

YOUR water is cold coming out of the tap??
Mine and @JoshH water comes out in ice cubes when we turn on the faucet this time of year :confused:

Well, I tried to find my over priced Hanna thermometer with the useless pH probe attached to it... but you know what my wife says about me losing things.

 

[living_tribunal]

Well, I tried to find my over priced Hanna thermometer with the useless pH probe attached to it... but you know what my wife says about me losing things.

Let me iterate it for those who are unaware: @Robin Haselden would lose their brain if it weren’t attached.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

When you accidentally overpour salt on a large saltwater batch at 7pm and have to wait many hours for more ro/di before you can do your water change

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Let me iterate it for those who are unaware: @Robin Haselden would lose their brain if it weren’t attached.

Close... think small head.

 

[Magellan]

Well I’m of course going to do the math to get things squared off nicely. I’m not going to just start dosing at some predefined limit and spot check it every few days.

Y’all saw how I handled phosphates, stay tuned for my alkalinity compulsiveness.

Well obviously you want it squared away! But don’t try to fix it with the first dose is all I’m saying.

 

[Magellan]

i think I’m dosing like 1/4 of the max dose per day if that helps

 

[living_tribunal]

Listen, I’m this close to conspiring with your wife to throw a garage sale with your dosing equipment.

 

[living_tribunal]

Well obviously you want it squared away! But don’t try to fix it with the first dose is all I’m saying.

Every time I dose something new, I always go half the dose I intend to do. It’s more so a measurement period until I get a reliable daily absorption rate.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Listen, I’m this close to conspiring with your wife to throw a garage sale with your dosing equipment.

Please, just dont sell it for what I told her I paid for it...

 

[living_tribunal]

Calcium colorimeter cane early. Let’s see what’s going on with my tank.

I’m hoping calc is low which confirms the issues with my frags.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Calcium colorimeter cane early. Let’s see what’s going on with my tank.

I’m hoping calc is low which confirms the issues with my frags.

Be VERY precise with that instrument. Its, touchy.

 

[living_tribunal]

Please, just dont sell it for what I told her I paid for it...

As long as you promise to buy the mainstays in this thread the lt feeding regiment package for Christmas.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

As long as you promise to buy the mainstays in this thread the lt feeding regiment package for Christmas.

Feeding regiment package???

 

[living_tribunal]

Be VERY precise with that instrument. Its, touchy.

Will do, I’m good with the phosphorous checker which is the same way.

My hanna testing procedure is about the most stable, predictable, and calculated thing in my existence sorry to say.

 

[living_tribunal]

Feeding regiment package???

You haven’t heard of the lt feeding regiment?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

You haven’t heard of the lt feeding regiment?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Will do, I’m good with the phosphorous checker which is the same way.

My hanna testing procedure is about the most stable, predictable, and calculated thing in my existence sorry to say.

It's way more complicated than the phosphate/phosphorus checkers. You'll be fine tho, I'm sure.

 

[JoshH]

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