Thanks again Steve and thanks to everyone for contributing to a great meeting. Brian, as always the frags were a treat. Hopefully, I now have my water in line and I'll have frags to distribute to the group in no time at all. Keep your fingers crossed that all of that SPS grows quick. BTW Steve, I came home and tested my Cal and Alk. Came up 460 and 10. I'm half tempted to buy probes. I could go for a piece of that sandwich right now. lol!
ben, Buy yourself a salifert test kit. I know they are pricey but seem to be worth it. brian tested my calcium with another test brand the day you and ed were at his house. it read high off the chart. I bought the salifert and found I was actually low like around 330-350 which made sense using IO. I also got the alk kit which seems to be right on with the calcium readings. what I mean is a swing in one shows in the other. when I tested yours yesterday it was 390. A little low. your alk was a little high. you may be right in the fact of having a crushed coral bottom with the high alk. post it to boomer or look in the threads. I had a good conversation with him about substrates and strontium. any way theres plenty of sandwich left I ll mail you a piece.