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02-20-2008, 05:23 PM
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#21 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
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Originally Posted by Otty  You need to try and keep that Ca around 450 all others look great! | Yeah, just got my new bulbs in and the Ca/Mg test kit that I had ordered on Friday. Needless to say this was my first time testing the Mg and Ca levels, so I was pretty happy with them. Going to get some RO/DI water going and I'll add some Ca. I will test the water in the morning and post some results 
I'll probably add some baking soda/laundry booster in the morning to get the DKH up to 14, think thats a good move or let it hold at 12.25?
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75g Soon to be Reef, Born 01-22-2008,
2 - 250w 14000k South Pacific Sunlight Metal Halides,
2 - 110w VHO Super Actinics,
ASM G-1 In-Sump Protein Skimmer,
200w Heater, 80lb Base Rock w/10lb Live Rock,
80lb Sand, 30lb Live Sand, 29g DIY Sump, Fuge.
Fish:
(1) Yellow-tail Damsel
(1) Six Line Wrasse
Clean Up Crew:
(16) Blue-legged Hermits
(5) Scarlet Crabs
(1) Emerald Crab
(20) Astrea Snails
(10) Trochus Snails
(10) Cerith Snails
(5) Nassarius Snails (sm)
(5) Nassarius Snails (lg)
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02-20-2008, 05:26 PM
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#22 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by Grotto Yeah, just got my new bulbs in and the Ca/Mg test kit that I had ordered on Friday. Needless to say this was my first time testing the Mg and Ca levels, so I was pretty happy with them. Going to get some RO/DI water going and I'll add some Ca. I will test the water in the morning and post some results
I'll probably add some baking soda/laundry booster in the morning to get the DKH up to 14, think thats a good move or let it hold at 12.25? | You have a Ca reactor going on it yet?? If you do then just wait and your dKH will probably go up with it running. _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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02-20-2008, 05:28 PM
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#23 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
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No Ca reactor yet no  | |
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02-20-2008, 05:33 PM
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#24 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
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I would wait on adding anything to increase the dKH right now and see what it does in the next week. 14 is good, it's about where mine is now. | |
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02-20-2008, 05:37 PM
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#25 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
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If you want some where online to keep your parameters try serotonin's site Tank Profiler - fish tank monitoring made easy! as that is where I keep my parameters and it even graphs them. Just PM him and he will get you a log-in | |
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02-20-2008, 05:45 PM
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#26 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
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Originally Posted by Otty | Okay, will do. Thank you ! | |
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02-21-2008, 01:59 PM
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#27 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
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Just got done another water test,
Salinity = 1.025
Ca = 490
Mg = 1420
DKH = 12.25
I'm pretty happy with the results | |
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02-21-2008, 02:38 PM
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#28 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
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welcome to the 3reef ,
Sound like your in with the good crowd, cant buy experiance | |
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02-23-2008, 07:53 PM
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#29 (permalink)
| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Lookin Good...Welcome to 3reef....  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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03-07-2008, 10:24 AM
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#30 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
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Added more base rock to my tank, thought I'd share some pictures!
Full Tank Shot: 
Left Side: 
Right Side: 
For the most part I'm done adding rock now, just going to sit back and watch it come to life . I'm starting to see Carolline Algae popping up on some of the white base rock, and a lot of it's starting near the bottom edges of the tank on the glass.  Soon to come!
Pictures of my DIY Canopy that I'll be making. I'm in the process of ordering the lighting supplies through Tangster, in the end I'll have 2 250w Metal Halogens with 2 110w VHO Super Acintics. 720w total! I'll probably start building some tomorrow, but we'll see  . | |
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