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    IO salt problems?

    my only guess would be my nitrate kit isnt good anymore....but just a month ago it was acurate to barriers kits...
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    IO salt problems?

    just cleaned the container out right before this batch that i did.....:confused:
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    IO salt problems?

    ya there are but he was saying those wont work on RODI water only freshwater that hasnt gone through the DI process....
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    IO salt problems?

    called thefilterguys and they said that normal nitrate kits dont give an acurate reading with RODI freshwater since it doesnt have ions in it....so if thats true no way of testing that...but fresh made water with 0tds and IO salt comes to 10-20ppm of nitrates that doesnt seem right at all....he...
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    IO salt problems?

    just recently got a new bucket of IO salt and tested nitrates with freshly mixed water and for some reason is reading 10ppm or so...the 5 stage rodi unit that i have tds meter reads 0 when coming out so its not that only other thing could be the salt....is this something that anyone else has...
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    something is very wrong....

    stoped by barrier the other day and got everything tested when picking up some carbon for sure need to get a new set of test kits heh... calc. 380 (not too low) alk 8 mag 1280 compared to 1050 or so that mine was testing at.... phos 0 amon. 0 nitrite 0 nitrate (15-20....color loss is possible...
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    something is very wrong....

    on another side note...do you all turn off your powerheads before you feed?
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    something is very wrong....

    noticed within a few hours my tang that had ick real bad has very little now so im hoping that the large change made the difference....
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    something is very wrong....

    just did a 20gal water change so hopefully that will help out a bit we will see
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    something is very wrong....

    ya ive tested for voltage with my volt meter and get nothing so thats good, possible something got into the tank but running carbon is hopefully taking care of that and no grandchildren yet would be worried if i had them at 21 haha
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    something is very wrong....

    salinity is by a refractometer that just got calibrated and the temp is by my chiller.
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    something is very wrong....

    guess IO does have high alk everywhere ive looked its at 12dkh for 35ppt and low calc/mag...350 calc and 1050 or so mag is what i tested out.....so should i buffer these levels up to where i want them never have done that...or was thinking maybe just go with RC which same alk but higher calc/mag...
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    something is very wrong....

    lol i was thinking the same thing... havnt tested everything yet but i tested out the IO mix that i just did for alk/salinity and at 1.025 the alk tests out at 11dkh is that normal for IO?
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    something is very wrong....

    went by the article that was written awhile ago in reefkeeping "vodka dosing distilled!" bumped it up every week like it said but this last bump seemed to have pissed off alot of stuff....if thats what it was...i bumped it from 2.2 -2.8 like it said....yes i was very consistent with it every day...
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    something is very wrong....

    its just really wierd how alot of the sps are doing just fine...and all my mushrooms/rics/acans/micromus./brain/zoes/clams(other then the one that died) are looking great.....only real thing i can even think of would be vodka addition effected random things...maybe the weaker of the species that...
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    something is very wrong....

    ya planning on doing a nice big one tomorrow just mixed up some water so gotta let it mix for a day or so...other then that i stoped the vodka which was for getting my nitrate down but i have a fuge with cheato in it so to be honest im just going to try running it that way for now just saw some...
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    something is very wrong....

    posted about this a week ago or so and tried to figure out what was going on with the tank it started out with just some very small amount of color loss in echino's then few days later few sps started to STN couple days after that one of my clams died in a matter of a day...that was last night...
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    what makes KH drop quickly?

    ya i just did a 15gal. change last night and was planning on doing a 10gal. tomorrow afternoon. hope that will kinda take care of whatever it is...cause only a few are STNing
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    what makes KH drop quickly?

    i combined both of my tanks into a new 75g about 2 months ago or so replaced all water/sand but all the live rock was from the other 2 tanks...whats wierd is everything looked amazing just untill a few days ago...trying to think of anything else i did diferently lol...only other thing i can...
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    what makes KH drop quickly?

    my substrate is about 1.5" of live araganite..
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