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dragonflylures · 05-13-2008, 05:01 PM

Here's my latest water parameters just taken:
Temp - 82 (usually had is set at 79 but halides warm up to 82 by the end of the day)
Phosphates - 0
nitrates - 0
nitrites - 0
ammonia - 0
Calcium 360
dKH - 6
PH - 8.4

I'm working on raising the calcium and going to use a buffer tomorrow morning to start bumping up the dKH.
I also have some cpu fans going to blow across under the halides but everything in the tank right now looks really healthy --- just getting some acropora in soon and like the reassurance from anyone else.

Current live stock
Fish - yellow tank, damsel

Coral
Frogspawn, Xenia, zoo's, toadstool, leather corals, shrooms, star polyps

Inverts
Clam (new to the tank), carpet anenome, cleaner shrimp, coral banded shrimp, pepperment, hermits, snails, feather dusters everywhere

Have a sump full of cheato and a small ball in main tank for tang.

Any thoughts improvements on chemistry for the water let me know, but trying to slowly bring up calcium and dkh.

05-13-2008, 05:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
dragonflylures Flamingo Tongue Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Dakota Age: 31 Posts: 107 Karma: 19	A double check on water parameters Here's my latest water parameters just taken: Temp - 82 (usually had is set at 79 but halides warm up to 82 by the end of the day) Phosphates - 0 nitrates - 0 nitrites - 0 ammonia - 0 Calcium 360 dKH - 6 PH - 8.4 I'm working on raising the calcium and going to use a buffer tomorrow morning to start bumping up the dKH. I also have some cpu fans going to blow across under the halides but everything in the tank right now looks really healthy --- just getting some acropora in soon and like the reassurance from anyone else. Current live stock Fish - yellow tank, damsel Coral Frogspawn, Xenia, zoo's, toadstool, leather corals, shrooms, star polyps Inverts Clam (new to the tank), carpet anenome, cleaner shrimp, coral banded shrimp, pepperment, hermits, snails, feather dusters everywhere Have a sump full of cheato and a small ball in main tank for tang. Any thoughts improvements on chemistry for the water let me know, but trying to slowly bring up calcium and dkh. _________ 90 gallon with 26 gallon sump/refugium, 2 x 250 MH lighting, 100lbs live rock, 1 - yellow tang,1 damsel, 1 - cleaner shrimp, 1 - coral banded shrimp, 3 - emerald crabs, 2 - porcelin crabs, 6 - peppermint shrimp, 1 - green ricordia, 1 - toadstool, 1 - brittle starfish, 1 - sand sifting star, 100's baby feather dusters,Ass mushrooms, frogspawn, xenia, 1 clam, 6 - Leather coral, Green star polyps,Lime green/orange button polyps,1 huge carpet anenome,various snails/hermit crabs