Turf algae now under control (thanks to water changes, severe filtration, and Vibrant) and tonight I managed to remove most of the debris.
As many of you know I'm a zoa lover and, unfortunately, lost almost my entire zoa collection (rastas, sunnys, chaos, fruitloops, etc all gone) through attrition from the algae and the subsequent battle to eliminate it. Massive colonies of sunnys and UCs are no more
sad
The only advantage of this is that my clown has decided to have a host nem, as opposed to getting stung by snuggling into zoas.
Anyways...
So, I WENT A BIT CRAZY and started a kalkwasser drip. It's almost like I'm doing something for the tank now.
I mixed up 2tsp of BRS Kalk powder in 30ml of vinegar, then added to 1 gallon of RODI.
I let it settle out and started a drip, currently 1 drop every 4-5 seconds.
No, here's where it gets INSANE!
I decided, after hooking up the dripper, to actually find out what my Alk and Ca is (thats the insane part, I actually did a measurement).
Now I can, you know, sort of monitor it until I forget or cant be bothered.
My starting figures based off my previous manual 2 part semi-daily, or weekly, or occasional dose guessing for the past, well, forever, are Alk - 7.5 and Ca - 400.
I'd like to get up to an Alk of 10 and a Ca of 420-440 for the SPS (and the odd LPS, which seems to be doing a bit worse for wear atm).
To bring this up to par quickly, the BRS calculator tells me to mix up 31 grams of the kalk and add it slowly to high flow area.
But I'd like advice from you dosers out there.
Is it worth the BRS front dose to bring levels up, or should I just monitor and adjust the drip to bring things up to par, then dial it back to sustain?
Also, with the fully saturated mix on maintenance, is one drop every 4 seconds into a 125g tank adequate or am I shooting way low here? Think I should up it a bit? I have no clue.
Any advice appreciated.
Otherwise Hope everyone's groovie.
I'm doing well. In and out of hospital but all appears on the upswing.
Diverticulitis is the ultimate diet plan, I'm 30 pounds down and gone from a 38" to 34" waist, now I can wear that bikini next season.
Actually sipping on my first beer in 2 months tonight 8D (a Flying Monkey's Chocolate Manifesto - didn't want to crack the Kane Lunchbox Heros).
As many of you know I'm a zoa lover and, unfortunately, lost almost my entire zoa collection (rastas, sunnys, chaos, fruitloops, etc all gone) through attrition from the algae and the subsequent battle to eliminate it. Massive colonies of sunnys and UCs are no more
sadThe only advantage of this is that my clown has decided to have a host nem, as opposed to getting stung by snuggling into zoas.
Anyways...
So, I WENT A BIT CRAZY and started a kalkwasser drip. It's almost like I'm doing something for the tank now.
I mixed up 2tsp of BRS Kalk powder in 30ml of vinegar, then added to 1 gallon of RODI.
I let it settle out and started a drip, currently 1 drop every 4-5 seconds.
No, here's where it gets INSANE!
I decided, after hooking up the dripper, to actually find out what my Alk and Ca is (thats the insane part, I actually did a measurement).
Now I can, you know, sort of monitor it until I forget or cant be bothered.
My starting figures based off my previous manual 2 part semi-daily, or weekly, or occasional dose guessing for the past, well, forever, are Alk - 7.5 and Ca - 400.
I'd like to get up to an Alk of 10 and a Ca of 420-440 for the SPS (and the odd LPS, which seems to be doing a bit worse for wear atm).
To bring this up to par quickly, the BRS calculator tells me to mix up 31 grams of the kalk and add it slowly to high flow area.
But I'd like advice from you dosers out there.
Is it worth the BRS front dose to bring levels up, or should I just monitor and adjust the drip to bring things up to par, then dial it back to sustain?
Also, with the fully saturated mix on maintenance, is one drop every 4 seconds into a 125g tank adequate or am I shooting way low here? Think I should up it a bit? I have no clue.
Any advice appreciated.
Otherwise Hope everyone's groovie.
I'm doing well. In and out of hospital but all appears on the upswing.
Diverticulitis is the ultimate diet plan, I'm 30 pounds down and gone from a 38" to 34" waist, now I can wear that bikini next season.
Actually sipping on my first beer in 2 months tonight 8D (a Flying Monkey's Chocolate Manifesto - didn't want to crack the Kane Lunchbox Heros).
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You could force stuff to precipitate and crash your water. So be mindful not to exceed 450 on calcium if your running elevated alk I know there are lots of formulas for this and you can run alk real high. But just be mindful that you can only hold so much stuff in solution. So a little breathing room isn't. Terrible.
