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First off I just did my weekly water change and tested the Vee Gee again and it's still holding to the (tlf) .35 Natural Calibration solution. Have not needed to adjust the calibration on that refractormeter since day one.
On the downside. It looks like the Fritz RPM is hitting some bad batches.
Cal is over 500ppm and mag is ranging from 1600 - 1700 pm @ 1.025dkh.
So until Fritz has gotten this resolved the RPM Triton report will be on hold.
The Blue Blue "My Batch" reports have been nailing my test kits.
Already went down the road with varying batches or bucket to bucket that provides QC reports from 2015 until late spring of 2016 with another salt mix.
It was truly a pain in the you know what, and I'm not going down that road again. :mad:
So will keep buying the Blue Bucket and dose the alk and mag to what my reef likes while mixing.
I want to just keep plugging away with the Red Sea ABC+ powder and it raises up all the big-3 at one time.
If the IO did not have the high alk with my large water changes, then I'd just use that mix.
If anybody knows another (proven) salt mix that comes into these #'s.
Cal - 430 - 440
Alk - 8 - 8.5 dkh
Mag - 1400 - 1420
Please let me know.
Thanks, Freddie
First off I just did my weekly water change and tested the Vee Gee again and it's still holding to the (tlf) .35 Natural Calibration solution. Have not needed to adjust the calibration on that refractormeter since day one.
On the downside. It looks like the Fritz RPM is hitting some bad batches.
Cal is over 500ppm and mag is ranging from 1600 - 1700 pm @ 1.025dkh.
So until Fritz has gotten this resolved the RPM Triton report will be on hold.
The Blue Blue "My Batch" reports have been nailing my test kits.
Already went down the road with varying batches or bucket to bucket that provides QC reports from 2015 until late spring of 2016 with another salt mix.
It was truly a pain in the you know what, and I'm not going down that road again. :mad:
So will keep buying the Blue Bucket and dose the alk and mag to what my reef likes while mixing.
I want to just keep plugging away with the Red Sea ABC+ powder and it raises up all the big-3 at one time.
If the IO did not have the high alk with my large water changes, then I'd just use that mix.
If anybody knows another (proven) salt mix that comes into these #'s.
Cal - 430 - 440
Alk - 8 - 8.5 dkh
Mag - 1400 - 1420
Please let me know.
Thanks, Freddie
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