The Mediocreef

[Mschmidt]

also the tiger gobi didn't make it through acclimation.

 

[rmorris_14]

:winking-face-with-tongue:

 

[MrsBugmaster]

also the tiger gobi didn't make it through acclimation.

Sorry for the loss:frowning-face:

 

[Mschmidt]

Sorry for the loss:frowning-face:

Thanks. I need to email them and see if it hits their arrive alive standards.

everything else looks good though. got a coral on one rock that had pe last night when I moved if rom the landing tank to the display. I should move the sponge rock over too.

 

[Mschmidt]

Some highs some lows...

That's 118ppm alk, not 18 dkh...
Calc: 380
Mag: too high to test

 

[tbrown]

Some highs some lows...

That's 118ppm alk, not 18 dkh...
Calc: 380
Mag: too high to test

I just tested my tank too!

Calcium 480
Alk 8.4
Phosphate 0.34
Nitrate too high to test
Magnesium 1210 :astonished-face::oops:

 

[Slocke]

I just tested my tank too!

Calcium 480
Alk 8.4
Phosphate 0.34
Nitrate too high to test
Magnesium 1210 :astonished-face::oops:

Well in my second tank I just got 1.56 Phosphate and Nitrate off the chart. All the carbon dosing, GFO and lanthium chloride and my values go up…

 

[tbrown]

Well in my second tank I just got 1.56 Phosphate and Nitrate off the chart. All the carbon dosing, GFO and lanthium chloride and my values go up…

I started dosing vinegar...

 

[Slocke]

I started dosing vinegar...

I mixed my carbon with nitrate but I think I got my math and this the mixture horribly wrong

 

[Slocke]

Ah well. Big water change being prepared.

 

[Mschmidt]

I just tested my tank too!

Calcium 480
Alk 8.4
Phosphate 0.34
Nitrate too high to test
Magnesium 1210 :astonished-face::oops:

Id rather have high mag than nitrates. But I too have started carbon dosing but haven't noticed a change. I should ge an auto doser. shame I didn't win one at the last club meeting.

I mixed my carbon with nitrate but I think I got my math and this the mixture horribly wrong

Ah well. Big water change being prepared.

I should do that this weekend...

 

[rmorris_14]

I have a doser I haven't even set up yet. :grimacing-face::grimacing-face::grimacing-face: Automated things intimidate me. I prefer dumping and saying a prayer method.

 

[Mschmidt]

I have a doser I haven't even set up yet. :grimacing-face::grimacing-face::grimacing-face: Automated things intimidate me. I prefer dumping and saying a prayer method.

the issue for me is the remembering to dump.

my alk dosing is just a healthy squeeze from the bottle into the flow.

 

[Projects with Sam]

I only think about feeding on a daily basis. its freeing.

 

[rmorris_14]

the issue for me is the remembering to dump.

my alk dosing is just a healthy squeeze from the bottle into the flow.

I just use baking soda and hope to remember about every other day. :cool:

 

[Mschmidt]

I only think about feeding on a daily basis. its freeing.

I think about feeding daily, act on that most but not all of the time.

I just use baking soda and hope to remember about every other day. :cool:

I made a solution of baked baking soda (don't use the air frier on the bake setting for this, it acts as a convection oven and will make a mess you then need to clean up) and water.

 

[tbrown]

Id rather have high mag than nitrates. But I too have started carbon dosing but haven't noticed a change. I should ge an auto doser. shame I didn't win one at the last club meeting.

I should do that this weekend...

I actually bumped my vinegar up yesterday.

I've got a doser with 4 heads but two of them are used for keeping my overflow U-Tubes primed.

 

[Mschmidt]

I actually bumped my vinegar up yesterday.

I've got a doser with 4 heads but two of them are used for keeping my overflow U-Tubes primed.

I doubled the dose yesterday too, then forgot today's morning 10ml. so oops

 

[Mschmidt]

So I'm trying to wrap my head around @Randy Holmes-Farley's diy dosing method. so far I got:
part 1) 395g (maybe that's the number) baked baking soda, aka. soda ash pr gallon
part 2) calcium chloride in solution. what's the ration though and will this (https://www.homedepot.com/p/50-lb-C...ickid=RBzXrUws:xyPWFzxw:UL1VKgUkFWwUXQ6WxOWc0) work over spending more for 7# through brs?
part 3) this https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petco...74132c95d3cc12dfd87a498ed7e63c16&gclsrc=3p.ds mixed 8 scoops pr gallon.

all dosed 1:1:1.

 

[Stang67]