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Pauline, I don’t use reef roids anymore. In fact my new approach is weekly water changes and that’s it’s.

Thanks for the advice guys. It’s nice to see that I was thinking the same way you were. Jon

So the mystery continues... I slowed down my water changes two weeks ago from 20 gallons a week to ten gallons a week. (My whole tank is about 80 gallons of water and that just seems like a lot of water to change every week.). Two weeks ago my phosphates were .13 before I did the first water...

I’m curious as to what nitrate test kit people use and like. I have the Hannah test kit but it’s a little too involved for my liking. Thanks

Bump Willing to ship in NJ if anyone is interested.

Fox, That was exactly my thoughts... thanks

It’s been about 3 1/2 weeks since I last posted about my progress with my phosphates. I have finally got them down to .13 which is much better. About five weeks ago they were reading .77. Since my problem was diagnosed I have been doing 20 gallon weekly water changes and every week my...

Located in pitman 08071 Practically brand new Hanna nitrate checker. It has about 95% of the regent left. Cost me $50 a month ago. Asking $35 Reef roids 60 gram jar brand new unopened and a bottle of reef roids polyp booster as well. The jar of polyp booster has about 90% left in it. It’s...

LOCATED in Pitman 08071 Want to trade a almost brand new hanna nitrates checker. I’ve only used it about five times. There is plenty of regent left in this. It cost me $50 a month ago Want to trade an unopened brand new 60 gram jar of reef roids and a 90% full jar or reef roids polyp...

I know this thread has gotten a little long. But the last time I tested a salt mix batch it read .29. So going from .29 to .07 is a big jump. Not perfect but much improvement. What boggles my mind is that my tds meter has read 0 this whole time. I have the nice HM meter that everyone talks...

I received my new di resin canister in the mail on Friday. I hooked it up to my unit yesterday and made 20 gallons of water. After letting the water mix overnight I tested the salt mix and it read .07. This is a huge improvement!!!! The most that I have seen since I had this huge phosphate...

Everything I have read said that you can’t test rodi water alone for phosphates. It has to be in a salt mix form. I did test my salt mix a couple weeks ago and it read .29 for phosphates. So my water is definitely coming out dirty although my tds meter is reading zero.

After doing some reading it sounds like adding another deionization filter to my rodi system should fix the problem. I found a blog on R2R saying that phosphates do not always show up on a tds meter and adding another di filter will take everything else out. If this doesn’t work I don’t know...

Weekly update: Last night I tested my phosphates and they were .26. This is down from .34 one week ago. In my opinion this is telling me that my chaeto is working on eating the bad nutrients, which is great. Today I did another 20 gallon water change and after I let the water cycle for 15...

Ive had a three headed ricordea on a disc for the last couple months in my tank. When I came home from work today one piece has removed itself from the disc and moved onto a piece of live rock next to it. Has anyone ever experienced this before? See pic below...

i I currently run the sump lights for 8 hours a day during the overnight. Do you you think I should bumo them up to 10 or 12 hours?

Positive update: I did a 20 gallon water change today. Before I did my water change my phosphates were .42 this morning. Last week after I did a water change they were .62. So that means they dropped 20 points in five days. That seems like a lot to me and I think it’s because I fed my...

Good idea Dave. I just might try that one. Thanks

I’m sure I’m doing the test correctly. Thank god for you tube!!! I did the first one incorrectly, the. I did about two or three more and those were accurate. I just don’t understand it....

I don’t know if this makes a difference. But, I usually make 20 gallon batches of salt water In a brute trash can. I use a mag 9 pump and let it mix for roughly 24 hours. I use ten gallons for a water change that day and the other ten gallons is stored for one week in clear 5 gallon plastic...