My Big Tank

[Mrx7899x]

You could probably wait a couple days but I don't think it makes that much of difference. Unless you did like a big 50 percent water change. A normal 5 to 25 percent water won't change your numbers much.

 

[Mrx7899x]

Couple weeks ago I hooked up my old co2 scrubber to try and bump my ph up from 7.89 at night and 8.01 during the day. Man did it work my ph is 8.3 during the day and 8.10 at night. My alk consumption went from 30mls a day to 75mls a day. Corals are looking really happy and growth has picked up over the weeks.

 

[myrjon]

Good to hear .corals are happy.

 

[diana a]

What does a co2 scrubber do?

 

[Mrx7899x]

You hook it to the air intake on you skimmer and it removes carbon dioxide from the air increasing your ph.
An Easy Way to Increase Your Tank's pH with a CO2 Scrubber

An Easy Way to Increase Your Tank's pH with a CO2 Scrubber

 

[Mrx7899x]

Picked up 2 aquamaxx dosing containers from marine depot. The build quality is very nice. I was dosing straight out of the b-ionic jug. But I didn't really like that because you couldn't tell how much you were dosing and if it was equal amounts.

 

[Mrx7899x]

I setup my extra dos to do a 2 gallon a day automatic water change. Using a 32 gallon brute trash can for saltwater storage and ran the drain line down where my washing machine drains. It's so nice not having to manually do water changes. 32 gallons will last me about 16 days so every 16 days I'll have to mix more saltwater which is not bad. I thought about doing 1 gallon a day but don't know if the saltwater will stay good for a month. Another plus is that I lowered my 2 part dosage since starting the awc which is nice.

 

[harthag12]

Very nice, I'm hoping I can make auto water changes happen at some point as well

 

[Mrx7899x]

Its definitely worth it it took me an hour or two to run the lines up the wall through my basement ceiling to other side of my basement. Probably around 30 ft and the dos has no problem pulling or pushing water that far. I also added a float switch to my saltwater container to shut the dos off if I run out of saltwater and it will text me when it gets low.

 

[Mrx7899x]

Did a little tank maintenance figured I'd post some pics

 

[Mrx7899x]

Fts

 

[diana a]

How many gallons is the dt? Very nice

 

[Mrx7899x]

Thanks Its 225 gallons

 

[myrjon]

nice pictures ..

 

[iTzJu]

damn that's filling up! looking awesome

 

[Mrx7899x]

damn that's filling up! looking awesome

Thanks its ready for some higher end sps coral now. You can set a clock to the parameters now.

 

[Mrx7899x]

The tank is a year old this month everything is doing great. I have some green cyanobacteria on the sand bed only that wont go away but other then that I have no complaints with the tank. I am in the process of switching over to a calcium reactor. Here are some updated pics

 

[diana a]

Wow everything grew so much! Looking good. Look how different a year made with your tank!

 

[Mrx7899x]

Wow everything grew so much! Looking good. Look how different a year made with your tank!

What a difference and the coral didnt go in till April. March is just when I started to cycle it.

 

[jmags080307]

Tank is looking sweet!!

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