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I tested my water this morning and it now read 1080. I added another 8 oz of magnesium and by tomorrow my levels should be ok. 8oz of Magnesium has been bringing my magnesium level about 200 points a day. I know this is a little bit risky but nothing seems stressed and all of my other water...

Yesterday it read 640 so I added 8 oz and today it read 840 so I added another 8 oz. I had no idea it would take so much to bring the levels up to par. I will continue to monitor the levels daily and will dose heavy until they are there. Guess I will need to order another 64 oz jug from Marine...

I am really struggling with maintaining my magnesium levels where they should be. I seem to be adding about 3 ounces of Kent Marine Tech M every other day and the levels continue to drop and not rise. I have no problem with maintaining my alkalinity from 10-12 and my calcium from 420 - 460...

My tank has been running pretty warm lately (83 degrees) which I find pretty odd. I have a 58 gallon tank with a 20 gallon sump. The equipment I have running in the tank is as follows: 250 watt heater (which is turned all the way down), 2 Hydor Koralia #2 powerheads, Tunze 9010 protein skimmer...

Well I finally fixed the problem today. Over the pat two days I have tried everything that was suggested to me and anything else that I could think of. Today I finally bit the bullet and reconfigured my spare homemade sump, bought a few items for it and switched the sumps. The new sump is...

Forgive me but what do you mean by add socks (filter sock?) and add a leave?

That is a great idea. I will try to get some tubing that will fit around my outlet pipe and will have it dump over the ledge and into the refugium. I will let you know how it works out - Jon

The skimmer is always in atleast 8 - 11 inches of water. I think it specifies it should be in atleast 3.5 inches of water where the intake is at the bottom of the skimmer. I am going to take it out and have a look at it. Maybe something is loose etc. If I can't find anything abnormal with it I...

Thanks for the suggestions hawkeye. I turned off the protein skimmer and it eliminated about 98% of the bubbles. So what next? I specifically bought this skimmer because of its size and its good brand. It skims my tank very well. I have heard that you can run your protein skimmer at night...

My tank is now three months old and I am dieying to add coral to it but there is just one problem. I have a huge amount of bubbles in my tank coming from the sump. I have an Oceanic model 1 sump and if you are not familiar with the sump I will explain it to you. The sump consists of one huge...

Matt, thanks for the advice. I drained the overflow and pulled the durso pipe and caught him when the water was almost empty. Case solved - Jon

Today when I woke up I noticed one of my fish was missing. I looked all around the tank and could not find him. Than I looked into my overflow and there he was just hanging out. He is a small clownfish maybe 3/4 of an inch and he slipped through the small hole that the return nozzle could rest...

Thankyou everyone for all of your input. Around 2pm today I did a 5 gallon water change of RO water only. I let the tank cycle for a couple of hours than I tested the salinity. My salinity dropped from 1.035 to 1.030. My alkalinity and magnesium also dropped but I dosed them accordingly to bring...

Re: Salinity way to high The refractometer has been calibrated and appears to be working correctly. It was very easy to adjust... I am going to take out five gallons of water today and will add 5 gallons of RO water. Than when I do my water change tomorrow I will use only 10 gallons with salt...

I just bought my first refractometer and found out why these are preferred over hydrometers. My hydrometer was reading my salinity at 1.26 specific gravity at 1.026, which is good for my reef tank, but when I checked it with the refractometer it reads 1.35 1.035 I am going to do a 15 gallon...

Thanks Mike that is what I was looking for. Jon