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Yes. Fresh sw have high ca and mag. I’m using aqua forest salt

Ordered a new salifert calcium and mag test. I knew I have high ca and mag, but didn’t realized it’s really high. My previous test kit is 2+ yrs old and expired. Ca - 490 Mag - 1500 I got really curious where the high mag comes from. I do dose 1-1 ca and all, so my fault really following...

Nice to know. Thanks!

It won’t ship in time.

Nope. Filter with paper coffee filter and it’s still brown. Going to bake arm and hammer baking soda . Seems easy enough.

You’re probably correct. The brown stuff settled and also coat the side of the jug.

What’s the main chemical compound? Sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate are the 2 common ingredients. What’s the in the fauna Marin stuff?

What do you dose for alk ?

my Alk is not that high. I can slowly reduce it to 7.5

I have been feeding heavy. Gha is growing but not overtaking the tank yet. Bristle worms are fat and happy. yeah PO4 is low ish side. It’s going to increase . I assume as long as it’s not zero, I’m okay. Is that not the case?

Well, per title I thought I’m saving money buying bulk. Looks like it’s a waste . Supposed to be pure soda ash got from Amazon. Just mixed the first batch . Have not use in the tank, probably will not. Going to stick to BRS or some other reef specific Alk additive. Picture shows Newly...

Random acro. I don’t even know the names. The latest casualty is birdnest. However for the birdnest , it’s been overtaken by stylo, so the death may be just that. A tidy frag like 1-2 inches. There is a slight risk of MEN since I got some frag from someone with MEN. Haven’t seen one

updates Monti sentosa colony continue to have small sign of stress. Turning white at a corner. Nothing major yet. Parameters is ok. Alk 8.3 Phosphate 0.02 ( not running gfo, just carbon) Nitrate 6.5 Alk consumption stabilize so far. Now dosing 65ml soda ash daytime and 1.4l kalk at night...

Hard to tell. It goes up one day, down another. At least no major deterioration. I also realized my cal and mag test kit expired. I’ll pick up a new kit over the weekend. Icp should be out end of next week as well.

I got 2 data points and drawing a trend. Day 1 Feed the coral , alk consumption goes up by 0.3 Day 2 . No feed Day 3 feed coral , alk consumption goes up. I need to feed more! Half joking . Of course I need to keep an eye on nutrient

I’m already regretting starting the culture . I have it in my home office aka my man cave. It’s noisy!

Thanks for the suggestion. I am aware I don’t have the best start and maybe even setup for failure. It’s just something I have and quickly throw together and see what happens. I don’t have high expectations. Anyhow, 1 day and nothing much happen. Maybe the color get lighter? I know I’m too...

Probably not ideal. I just use reefnutrician Live Photo bottle. Mixed strain. It’s what I have .

Grep a bucket, EVO light bar , airline tubing and some miracle grow ( I heard F2 is the best, but that’s what I have at hand) . If this works I might be tempted to get proper equipment.

My normal routine is 15% WC. This (massive WC) is a one off change , hoping to reset whatever issue i have with the tank. 1. I didn;t check Alk in the new water. But temp is close. I check Alk in the main tank after the change and its within range. 2. RODI outputing 0 tds. Unless the tds meter...