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02-10-2008, 07:17 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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|  1st tests!
well i tested my water for the first time on saturday. after a little over a month the results are about what i figured they would be:
temp- 78.5
ammonia- 0
nitrite- 0
nitrate- 17 ppm
ph- 8.2
salinity- .023
kh- 10.9
alk- 3.89
c.c.- 360
got the water mixing for a 10 gallon water change now, will add it tomorrow evening and then monitor it for a couple of weeks. these results are about what i expected. what say you?? _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 1 Mandarin Goby, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | 
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02-10-2008, 07:22 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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With salinity at .023 everything would be dead....  Hope you fat fingered it and it's suppose to be 1.023 
The only thing I didn't see is Mg.
Would wait on the water change, you'll just prolong the cycle. Just let it run. _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
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02-10-2008, 07:22 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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All seems ok with the exception of DKH and Cal(IMO). If I was you, raise the DKH to 12-13, which will raise Alk at the same time and your Cal up to 400-450ppm. BTW, you forgot about Mag and po4. _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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02-10-2008, 07:33 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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i didn't run EVERY test, don't even have all the test kits yet! just wanted to check up on it and see how its cycling. otty- won't a water change help take down some of the nitrates which will in turn help even out some of my other numbers? | |
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02-10-2008, 07:34 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Don't rush it, just let the tank run. Mother nature will do her job. | |
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02-10-2008, 07:36 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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by the way my salinity is at .023. i just thought that my fish have been in swim lessons learning the side stroke  | |
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02-10-2008, 07:47 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Your refractometer read SG?? | |
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02-10-2008, 07:53 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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sg  sorry newbie here | |
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02-10-2008, 07:55 PM
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#9 (permalink)
| | Stylophora
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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u forgot i'm an idiot!
dropped a 1 in my post... or was it a 2 or a 3...hmm  | |
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02-10-2008, 08:02 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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At .023 your chit would be floating. | |
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