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  1. gbr

    Best Way to Mix Salt?

    I use a 44 gallon brute filled to the top with ro/di using a float switch. Then add the salt. I let that go overnight with a power head and check salinity with a pinpoint meter the next day and adjust salinity. At that time, because the IO is fairly consistant in regards to alk, ca, and mg...
  2. gbr

    Let's Talk About ~Algae Control~

    I am starting to go slightly mad. I am reading on N and P and methods of export and how P gets into the tank and how it stays in a DSB because the detritus is basically impossible to vacuum off. So am I stuck with a perpetual algae "problem"? The method of export would seem, as Nikki has...
  3. gbr

    Anyone using Reef Crystals salt...Potential Nitrate problem

    There is no clumping at all. There are chunks that are white. One big crystal it would appear. Not a clump of smaller salt crystals. The yellow chunks are softer and do appear like clumps of something...some other element??? I'll get a picture.
  4. gbr

    Anyone using Reef Crystals salt...Potential Nitrate problem

    Thanks wrightme. I will take a macro shot of the salt tonight and post back as to what I am seeing for you to compare. This is the 2nd bucket with the same consistancy. I am using IO again for now. I have about about 30" of clam and about 2 gallons of chaeto in the fuge...still have 1 -...
  5. gbr

    Anyone using Reef Crystals salt...Potential Nitrate problem

    By the way, I am not pointing at this as "the" source of my problem. Agreed, a 10g 1ppm addition should be handled quite nicely by algae and bacteria. This is just an "added" source.
  6. gbr

    Anyone using Reef Crystals salt...Potential Nitrate problem

    I am really just looking for someone who has actually used the product. live- when you start adding the 200ppm solution to your "healthy" reef, let me know how that works out for you. Let's say every other day because it will quickly be knocked down to undetectible. The chunks don't appear...
  7. gbr

    Let's Talk About ~Algae Control~

    JC - I have heard of people dosing vodka and have usually just grazed over it and not really read why they were dosing, what the effects and side affects were etc. I will give it a more solid read...I think Randy did an article on it once. Nikki - That would be a great thread and you will...
  8. gbr

    Anyone using Reef Crystals salt...Potential Nitrate problem

    Thanks, i'll do that. Honestly I am not a chemist, but adding 10g of 1ppm Nitrate water to a 180g tank should never be noticed as de-nitrifying bacteria should be able to "eat" that up. I don't know if there are different "kinds" of nitrates but that is my thinking. I obviously have another...
  9. gbr

    Anyone using Reef Crystals salt...Potential Nitrate problem

    I recently have been noticing increased nitrate levels in my tank. In searching for a source I tested my mixed salt water which is Reef Crystals mixed to 1.026 sg. Using a Salifert test kit I had a nitrate level of 1-2.5ppm. I tested the RO/DI water which tested zero (undetectable). I then...
  10. gbr

    Let's Talk About ~Algae Control~

    Ed, I'll post in the general forum to ask others to try it out...we'll see. Nikki, my first test was performed on my salt mix that had been mixed for probably 2-3 days...but aerated? Maybe some research there is in order so I can perfect my mixing regimen. Any good articles you can point me...
  11. gbr

    Let's Talk About ~Algae Control~

    Well I didn't get to the testing I wanted to this weekend but my first test (one I had ruled out) ended up being a source of nitrates. My Reef Crystals! I tested my RO/DI and had zero, then I tested the make up water and got between 1 and 2.5ppm. I then retested the RO/DI...again got...
  12. gbr

    Treated for Red Bug yesterday.

    Just a verbal update on the corals. The one that was doing very badly is still doing very badly :cry: ...no real change, no polyps, barely alive. It has a brother coral that is the same species that was added to the tank later (don't have the scientific name here at work) that has shown more...
  13. gbr

    Treated for Red Bug yesterday.

    Scott, I used ~1/2 of the large Interceptor pill. The pills are relatively hard and I used a razor blade to cut it. It cracked 'almost' in half and I used the slightly larger half. Each pill has 23mg of the active ingredient so I would estimate I dosed about 12mg. I had thought briefly of...
  14. gbr

    Let's Talk About ~Algae Control~

    I'll do some more extensive testing this weekend and report back. The pore test should be easy as will be the sand bed test. I don't think the overflow is the problem as I have ~2500 gph flowing through that overflow, although bubble algae seems to grow there real well?? Being a room divider...
  15. gbr

    Let's Talk About ~Algae Control~

    First...thanks for the help here. I have about 20 plus spots where it is growing. I am not positive it is cyano, but it is redish and pretty slimy. There is a posibility that some of it is diatom. located...Tops of rocks, behind some corals, on the sand in lower flow areas, pretty much all...
  16. gbr

    Let's Talk About ~Algae Control~

    Thanks all for your replies. I saw after my post that ethanriley was in the bahamas. "probably won't survive and you cannot order them for warm water environs" - too bad. Unfortunately that usually won't stop some retailers. I guess there is no shortcut for me to get rid of my cyano. I'll...
  17. gbr

    Let's Talk About ~Algae Control~

    Where do you get chitons?
  18. gbr

    Treated for Red Bug yesterday.

    I would have loved to have saved the acro crabs. I just dont think I could get them out. All of the acros I have are fused to the rockwork and an acro crab will not come out of that coral in the tank to save his life...literally...:( Thanks for the offer though. My current plan is to not do...
  19. gbr

    What type of filter you use in the sump?

    I use a filter sock like this one : http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem.asp?idproduct=EA1351 I have about 20 of them and change them every other day...a real PITA. Then I wash them in the washing machine when all of them are "used up". I have recently built a better bubble trap to remove...
  20. gbr

    Treated for Red Bug yesterday.

    Thanks for the replies. How will I know if I can get away with it? Probably best to just do a second treatment huh? I just got pretty lucky I thought only losing one acro crab and didn't want to lose the others on the next treatment. So wait a week and then treat again? Is that the time...
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