Testing regime

[scotty333]

Ca 435
Po4 0.1
No3 5

 

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Raising kh to 8 so I’ve a bit more of a margin for when I add the 8 acros tomorrow because I’ll need to calculate usage and I have no idea what will happen

 

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Kh 7.1
Po4 0.08
No3 8
Calcium 445
Mag who knows
Salinity 1.025.5
Temp 26.1
Ph 8.15

 

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Calcium and mag checked at lfs

400
1320

Calcium’s dropping 3 ish ppm per day
Mag nada

 

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Kh 8.1
No3 5
Po4 0.05
Calcium 415
Mag 1170
Ph 8.3
Salinity 1.025.5
Temp 26.0
Iodine 600

 

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Po4 0.09
No3 13.2
Kh 8.9

Adjustments being made

 

[Shnetts]

I made an excel spreadsheet of all my parameters and added a graph to it, makes keeping track super easy and its really nice to see the graph with corresponding dates.

 

[scotty333]

That’s sounds awesome but I’m a bit of a technophobe so spreadsheets aren’t my thing but nice idea

 

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No3 9.2
Po4 .05
Kh 8.9

 

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just for record keeping

Salinity 1.025.5
Ph 8.2
Temp 26
Kh 8.4
Po4 0.04
No3 5
Mag 1260
Calcium 420

 

[scotty333]

So 5 months in and things are totally different now regarding testing

Kh twice a week
Phosphate once a week maybe less
Nitrate once a week maybe less
Calcium monthly icp
Magnesium once a month icp
Ph once a week
Temp daily - digi read out
Orp daily - digi read out

All trace on icp monthly