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wickedfish said:
Notice any difference with calcium this high?

What are you doing to lower those trates?


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Actually my calcium was at 700 3 months ago. I just recently reset this tank on 8/11 and so far 480 is what m getting. As far as nitrates I think my chaetos are stiil dormant;) Any other suggestions to lower it besides the obvious?:afraid:
 
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Rearranged the right side of the my tank to accommodate new sps I got from Danny aka electric Dan. Checked my mag level.


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nicodim55 said:
Actually my calcium was at 700 3 months ago. I just recently reset this tank on 8/11 and so far 480 is what m getting. As far as nitrates I think my chaetos are stiil dormant;) Any other suggestions to lower it besides the obvious?:afraid:
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Feed pellet and spirulina flake instead of meaty frozen food. More frequent WC's. If you have a sock remove it 3 times a week. Don't let that sock sit there. That's all I got.

Vodka does work. But I'm sure it can mess things up when not done properly.


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Cleaned the glass and started making Rodi water for whatevers.

Also turned on my sump water moving powerhead. I had cut it to save juice but the bottom is getting nasssssssssssty!


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Feed pellet and spirulina flake instead of meaty frozen food. More frequent WC's. If you have a sock remove it 3 times a week. Don't let that sock sit there. That's all I got.

Vodka does work. But I'm sure it can mess things up when not done properly.


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I feed that now once a day is that too much? Currently I change the sock once a week before it overflows
 
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wickedfish said:
Feed pellet and spirulina flake instead of meaty frozen food. More frequent WC's. If you have a sock remove it 3 times a week. Don't let that sock sit there. That's all I got.

Vodka does work. But I'm sure it can mess things up when not done properly.


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Haha:rockon: my bad retested nitrate tonight and the result was.05 I read the color wrong yesterday what a relief. I guess my chaetos are not dormant after all:)
 
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Just installed my new StarkLED 50w LED light system over my 20g nano. Its not cree led's, just bridgelux. 12x3w whites, 12x3w blues, 2x3w UV. Basically sold my sunpod and traded my spare 55g reef tank for it. Also replace my mj1200 with a rio 800 for return.
 
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Haha:rockon: my bad retested nitrate tonight and the result was.05 I read the color wrong yesterday what a relief. I guess my chaetos are not dormant after all:)
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Stop messing around and get a salifert NO3 kit.


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Turned off the rodi, don't want flooding. I got paranoid around 4 am and took a peek. I need a float valve!


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Params check.. everything okay nitrates at .05 ..not bad I guess lol.. messing around with the sump saw lots of growth of a red bubble macro ....super happy about it :)

Then saw things moving on the glass, sand bed, macro, return pump, lr.... Finally seeing some sort of pods growing :) almost brought tears to my eyes.. lol so I laid down in the prone, and just stared at them for a good 10mn..

No matter how much of a crazy day you have at work, or how much it sucks to have to work so much.. my tank always takes my mind off it all! ....I'm so glad I switched to salt water :)





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I have 150 g mostly sps tank. I got bored and changed 60% of the water. I know you are not supposed to change more than 10-15% at a time, but I've done 50% before and everything did fine. I also mixed the salt right before replacing the water.
 
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As long as you matched alk,ph, and temp it's not all that dicey, (daredevil)! Now if the make up water was still milky, your a mad man.
 
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Fed my fish a grip.

I got a $2500 hold em pot I need to win to buy a generator. All you SD people have me paranoid!


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