So I had a hose pop off from my doser. Apparently the the hard plastic tubing I used clogged and sealed blowing the line off. The line popped off where I didn’t notice and over a few days my alk dropped from 9.3-9.6 to 6-6.3. I noticed this on Wednesday and believe it popped off Sunday/Monday. I tested during that time and thought maybe things were growing lol.
Needless to say I’ve lost some color. No actually deaths from it yet but we shall see.
When I found and fixed the problem, guess what? I caused another. I think while troubleshooting and running the pump in manual mode I pressurized the alk line enough to crack the little double nipple fitting but didn’t notice after I cleared the line clog. Well my doser is lower than the line outlet so every time it pump 90ml up 12x a day it would siphon back and spill onto the floor under the doser. So I got another giant mess to clean and my alk is still sitting at 6.7-7 dkh.
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I’m going back to my GEO here soon. I had to order a whole new sicce 1.5, the actual plastic was worn down inside the housing that surrounds the impeller shaft, I’m 99% that was my original issue with metals now. I’ve swapped media to a combo of TLF large reborn and Smites Reborn. Sure is pretty.
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on a good note my Dino issue is gone and my water clarity is awesome right now. The dual 55w jebao really did an awesome job.
I pulled my wavebox because it was blowing right into my rockwork and coral. It also had to sit in a corner and the only spot that worked was against my overflow. That caused a lot of noise and for the water level to run high in the tank. I bought a cheap jebao 180 until I can swing a gyre 350. I moved the opposing 6105 so the jebao gyre fights the 3 pumps in a long pulse. The flow reminds me of what I had in my UNS tank. Hopefully I’ll start to see some overall improvements here soon in acro health
The last real GHA problematic spot is up front and center on my red colony that’s been slowly withering for the last few months. Other than that the tank isn’t such an eyesore anymore.
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