Here is a quick video I'm starting to think we are getting better PE with the lower No3
What’s your most recent Hanna Po4 reading @SBB Corals
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Here is a quick video I'm starting to think we are getting better PE with the lower No3
it is .09What’s your most recent Hanna Po4 reading @SBB Corals
lets follow this no3 thing close.. but maybe the corals will actually look better that we have the hanna kit and bring our no3 down..Im glad the tenuis you got from us is doing good and thanks for the nice report!I agree, I was using the Red Sea test and showing about 10. To my surprise the high range tested at 40, recently my PC Rainbow hasn’t been happy but tenuis is looking great. Going to lower it to 15 or so with a larger water changes. The 3 pieces from you I just added a couple weeks ago have been happy and doing great. My phosphates have been dropping down to the .07 range
My personal preference is the NYOS nitrate test kit. Accurate and easy to read. The shades of pink on the Salifert are too hard to decipher for me.what it the NYOS? and what does your nyos read?
the Hanna nitrate HR is 7 minutes
I've really been curious as to why my PE is so modest relative to yours and other tenuis keepers around here. I get a lot of skeleton growth, and dark colorations. I see all this yellow WD while mine is green/purple/and super blue. Same with HW. No PE, no pink just blue & green skeleton.lets follow this no3 thing close.. but maybe the corals will actually look better that we have the hanna kit and bring our no3 down..Im glad the tenuis you got from us is doing good and thanks for the nice report!
PH dragging there is no excuse for that Just get a PH Scrubber its simple and easy. what is your ph at?I've really been curious as to why my PE is so modest relative to yours and other tenuis keepers around here. I get a lot of skeleton growth, and dark colorations. I see all this yellow WD while mine is green/purple/and super blue. Same with HW. No PE, no pink just blue & green skeleton.
There is a grow-out contest thread here with Adam's BC Bonfire and the thing is cranking out skeleton like mad, adding 1/2" to a 3/4" frag in just over two months. No PE at all, but some decent color.
I know my pH is dragging, but maybe my nitrate numbers are just plain wrong.
I probably should recalibrate (APEX) as it has been 4-5 months but now that windows are closed and ambient CO2 is pushing 600 my range is 7.85 to 8.1PH dragging there is no excuse for that Just get a PH Scrubber its simple and easy. what is your ph at?
I would speculate that you definitely need to recalibrate. With everything you’re throwing at your pH you should be way higher than you are. Unless of course you have 12 kidsI probably should recalibrate (APEX) as it has been 4-5 months but now that windows are closed and ambient CO2 is pushing 600 my range is 7.85 to 8.1
In use now:
CO2 scrubber (but skimmer is undersized)
Fresh air line to scrubber (but a 30 foot run of 3/8 ID)
8pm to 8am dosing 2100ml of Kalkwasser (which I cannot seem to keep saturated for more than a couple days)
Reverse light schedule refugium
Dosing ALK overnight too
No, all kids (2) are gone now although one of their cats prefers the basement somehow.I would speculate that you definitely need to recalibrate. With everything you’re throwing at your pH you should be way higher than you are. Unless of course you have 12 kids
As a side note, I run 2 canisters of soda lime. That way you get complete exhaustion of the first chamber of media. When the second canister gets half used, I will move that one to the first position and the empty/refill the exhausted media and place it in position 2. This also helps with consistency because you’re never trying to fully exhaust a single canister.
please let us know once you calibrate i would think it would be much higher..No, all kids (2) are gone now although one of their cats prefers the basement somehow.
I had to go with a CO2 meter just to test my sanity. I do have a lot of surface agitation so there does seem to be some correlation with the weather and prevailing wind. We have two winds here: from the SW and from the NE. Forty miles SW is NYC with heat, humidity, 700ppm CO2 and God knows what else. Here we call it Summer. In Winter, the cold, dry, 394ppm CO2 comes barreling through and pH is a nothing-burger.
I will calibrate tomorrow though unless a quick 7.0 test proves in range. This is nuts. I used to blame my calcium reactor but it exploded 6 weeks ago.
Scrubber media is just now a week old. The bottom couple inches are purple. My skimmer is undersized by about a third so that is part of the issue.please let us know once you calibrate i would think it would be much higher..
do you change the media on your scrubber every 2 weeks and what size reactor is it? maybe its too small?
yes it is but what is the range from night to day? mine goes from 8.5-8.01 its a huge range at nightScrubber media is just now a week old. The bottom couple inches are purple. My skimmer is undersized by about a third so that is part of the issue.
I put the pH probe into some 7.0 calibration fluid and it read 6.83. Recalibrated, and now getting almost 8.2 so that is significant.
I forecast a low of 7.95 tonight now that it is calibrated. And I have a lot of nighttime countermeasures going on:yes it is but what is the range from night to day? mine goes from 8.5-8.01 its a huge range at night
Hello LRT,What are you guys finding is easiest most accurate tool of measurement for PH?
Those are huge discrepancies showing for Nitrate measurements between Hanna and test kits. Is everyone showing the same higher numbers across the board from hanna? Has anyone confirmed that hanna is checking out correct?
For me upgrading my skimmer is what helped bring my numbers up.
I ran a bubble magus 5 on 120-140 total gallon system raw. No air lines outside and no scrubber. 7.6-7.8
Ran airlines outside got me 7.8-8.0
Upgraded skimmer to eshopps 220 gallon skimmer with airlines outside got me around 8.1-8.3
Just upgraded my system and tried a reef octopus rated for 300 gallons on a 100 gallon system and was too much and was showing me anywhere from 8.3- 8.5 ish so I unhooked it and went back down to the 220 gallon rated skimmer.
Looking for proper tool to measure now as my reading where from seneye and found huge discrepancy.
The 300 gallon rated reef octopus with higher numbers may actually be running where I really want to be but idk.
Api and salifert showing 8.0 ish when seneye reading close to 8.3 or higher.
Hey Shane. I dont have Neptune Triton but do believe thats the road im headed down here soon. Been looking at pinpoint and may still grab one even if its for cross referencing down the road.. But Trident Neptune really does bring the bigger package im after.Hello LRT,
for PH we like the Neptune Triton but I have found that you need to calibrate it every 3 or so months. The best way to test if the PH probe is accurate is to put it in 7 solution and then see what the probe is reading .. If you put it in and it reads 7 straight away then you know its accurate.. then try this with a 10 solution. Do you have the neptune PH probe?
the problem IMO now with hanna checker is that not many people have it yet so I think we cannot all test it.. once it becomes more available I hope everybody else will share the result here.. Since Now i am not sure which test kit to trust we are flying blind at the moment. The corals seem to like it that i am backing down from 55 no3 but i had some other corals start to RTN and i think its because we stopped dosing the neonitro. Some Corals look amazing with PE and others like a little more dry. Neo Nitro also has Potassium so now that We are not dosing the Neo maybe the Potassium level is lower.. so much to consider LOL
IMO PH at 8.3-8.5 is not bad that is closer to our range with a high of 8.5 see graph below. when we leave the windows open it reaches 8.5.. but once the weather outside is at 75 and above we have to shut all the windows for the AC and the PH max then is 8.3...