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10-16-2005, 01:56 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Aug 2004
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|  How often do you check your water, be honest
How often do you check your water? I check Calcium and Alk twice a month, the same time I swap out my carbon. I check the nitrates a few times a month with those quick dip strips but I don't really trust them because I have a feeling that if they dry out too much they quit working. I use a regular test kit once a month for peace of mind. I haven't checked Strontium in a while, I think my water changes take care of this and the mag. At least I have only had to dose it once.
Always Salifert test kits.
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60 Gal Acrylic, 30 Gal Acrylic, 55 Gal Glass.
Remora skimmers, 440 Watts VHO URI's. Mag canister for carbon. 90 Pounds liverock, 100 pounds live sand DSB, Flame Angel, Coral Beauty, Clown Percula, Royal Gramma, Domino Damsel. Pulsing Xenia, Devils Hand Leather, Frogspawns, Torches, Hammers, Fox Corals, Gorgonias, Various Zoanuthus, Favietes, Toxic Green Star Polyps. Candy Cane corals, Purple Indica. | 
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10-16-2005, 05:47 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: italy
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|  Re: How often do you check your water, be honest
for me its been once a week, for nitrates and ammonia. thats cause ive been adding new live rock, and playing with the sand. And i just started dosing ca and mag. so im trying to stay on top of that. i keep a log just to keep track. But ive been paranoid latley because all my dosing and test kits are all in the metric system. and im not used to it. lol.
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55 gallon, prizm HOB skimmer, 48" PC Formosa DX - JG3 2 x day, 2 antic, some powerheads, around 24 pnds LR, 3 clowns, 2 tangs, anenome's. RO water | |
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10-16-2005, 05:51 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Noblesville, IN,Indiana Age: 56
Posts: 373
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| Re: How often do you check your water, be honest
My tank is relatively new so I was checking every day. But the changes were so slow, I tapered off to once a week now. The cycle seems to be over, so now I will try and build up Ca and get that stable.
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55 gal FOWLR, SeaClone 150 skimmer. 2" LS, 50# LR. 29Gal sump/fuge ViaAqua 2600 pump, chaeto, 1" sand, LR
2 Percula Clowns, Scissortail Goby, Black Birdwrasse, Keyhole angel, Lawnmower Blenny, | |
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10-16-2005, 06:51 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Memphis,TN Age: 39
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| Re: How often do you check your water, be honest
i try once a week but it seems to be going to every two weeks now
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75 G 2-250w 20,000K MH, 2-110w VHO actinic's,2 802 power heads, berlin skimmer,150 pro wet/dry system ,fluvle 404,120 lbs live rock,60 lbs live sand, red mushrooms, green mushrooms, green Harry mushrooms, Star Polyps, zoolanthas,brown Cynarina lacrymalis, plate coral,green Button Coral, 50 blue hermit crab, 100 assorted snails,1 mandolin green Goby,1 flamed angle, 1 yellow tang | |
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10-16-2005, 07:37 AM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Mar 2004
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 | Re: How often do you check your water, be honest
About Twice a month Sometimes only once  ( Am I Bad )  | |
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10-16-2005, 08:14 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Illinois Age: 30
Posts: 390
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| Re: How often do you check your water, be honest
About every 2 weeks for Calcium, but everything else about 1 month.
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90 gallon reef, mag 1800 main return pump, 10 gallon refugium + 10 gallon sump, CPR overflows, ASM G-1 skimmer, icecap 660 vho 440 watts. 130#LR and 60#LS. Corals: Finger Leather, Fat Finger Leather, Toadstool, flower pot sps coral, hairy mushrooms. Fish: Yellow tang, Bi-color angel, pecula clowns, royal gramma, coral beauty angel, yellow tail damsel, blue damsel, Sergeant Major Damsel. Misc. hermit crabs, snails, flame scallop, Xenia | |
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10-16-2005, 03:47 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Davenport IA
Posts: 1,238
  | Re: How often do you check your water, be honest
Calcium once a week, kh daily. Nitrate pointless, never any nitrate, waste of a test. Ammonia, nitrite almost never had the Ammonia badge from Seachem had to put it in my Midas tank to make sure it still worked. I bought a Iodine test and found out I was overdosing that so I test that like twice a month. | |
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10-16-2005, 03:53 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA
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| Re: How often do you check your water, be honest
I test the basics weekly, usually a day after I do my 10% water change | |
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10-16-2005, 04:39 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
Posts: 3,448
| Re: How often do you check your water, be honest
well...besides salinity...i test when somthing goes wrong...or when im worried something will go wrong lol...my reef has been nice to me...i have never really had a problem with it...i prolly just jynx it... _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
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1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
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100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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