Recent content by Alexander1312

Love it!

I would. And I did. Because they are. Exactly. It is overstating the results because it has an error rate. Like EVERY other tester. But if it helps you better understanding, I can add ‘relative to the ICP results’. But hopefully we are not getting in this petty debate, as this was implied...

Reading and addressing ICP results have become rather BAU, and the mystery in what to do with them is mostly gone. There are still quite a lot of nuances to go into, but my main actions are a) calibrating home testing results, and b) chasing perfect parameters. While it is debatable who runs...

Timing of ozone usage (vs. dosing major and minor elements) Learned something new yesterday from Christoph / Oceamo in the German-speaking podcast: Not relevant for most here since not many, if any use ozone, so more a note for me. I recently reduced ozone dosing from 24/7 to 10 minutes...

Or even better - stable ‘perfect’ numbers. P.S.: Would be interesting to do a poll how many people have NO3 and PO4 in the suggested range above :).

Welcome - I wonder how easy that is going to be.

Welcome - and great choice (did not know there were at least 16 gulfs in the world…:)…).

Looks good. Is this the Elite 200 INT? Which settings do you have it running? Pump speed / water level?

@Darkxerox - how would these bricks fix high nutrients?

It is actually not as uncommon to do this as you think, and solves larger nutrient issues as yours much better. Also, I worry what else is in the rocks. Working with LC at this early stage is not a great idea but working with gfo type media will take a very long time (and expensive). I am not...

I see, a lesson learned of being extra careful when using used aka cycled dead rock. You get your tank started right away but fight lots of issues later. And you have not done an ICP test yet, lets see what else leaches out of these rocks. In all honesty, an easier and potentially cheaper way...

Welcome back to your journal :). Why not posting pictures so the before and after is coming out better? I should think about spending my work granted volunteer time at your school tank as this seems to be a great purpose :).

That’s a lot of phosphate. Where did you get your rocks from? Do you have a picture of your skimmer in action?

In a nutshell, the concern is to lower PO4 very slowly as it otherwise stresses your corals too much. Applying too many methods simultaneously might create a too sudden drop, specifically if misusing LC, which tends to be powerful unless diluted significantly. Just to confirm, your PO4 was...

Haha, yes, and this is where belief comes into play :). I believe that the Fauna Marin Reference solution is as accurate as possible. Unopened the solution is supposed to last for 2-3 years, opened it is supposed to be stable for quite a while too, but I do actually need to check how long...