I know I have one more reagent left for the hr nitrate. I have no problems keeping po4 up its keeping nitrates up that is my problem
Thankfully I have 100 gal containers, so I should have enough.
Wow. Your nutrient level is pretty high and you still have dinos? I always understood that bottomed out nutrients resulted in dinos.I tested my N03 and P04 today. I haven't dosed in a week, but still haven't skimmed yet and still feed heavy. My P04 was at .13, which I can actually live with, my N03 was at 75 ppm, yikes!!!The N03 being at 75 ppm is very high, BUT, it means that I have hit the saturation point of the dry rock and now I can skim again. I turned on my skimmer just now and will start to lower the N03. I may have to dose P04 to keep it up, but at least the good algae now has a fighting chance to grow and win.
Fighting Dinos is a slow process, you have to look at taking baby steps to win. I am starting to see signs of winning this battle.
I had marked it, so I was pretty close, salinity really didn't change. What I need to do though is to add tape marks to figure out how much water I can remove without it being to much. With 5 gal buckets it was easy, not having that measurement tool makes it harder to figure out how much you are removing.
I did have 0 nutrients in the tank, but started to dose and feed heavily to raise them. Now I am trying to bring it back down now that my aquascape can no longer absorb it. I will take measurements today when I get home.
Use a tank calculator to figure out what an inch of water is volumewise then use a tape measure or ruler to get a rough idea how much you are removing. I've gotten pretty close based on the graduations on my 300 gallon mixing tank when I refill. If your 100 gallon mixing tank has graduations too, you can get an idea what you're doing. Then back everything up with a refractometer to be sure. When raising salinity I like to add extra in small increments and let evaporation bring it up. For me a small increment is 5 gallons though. For your setup, hit your marks and pull a refracto reading. Then add a gallon or two at a time and check the salinity once the ATO starts working again. Once you get a feel for it you'll know exactly how much to add and get the desired result.
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I put a mark at the top, used 5gallon buckets and removed what I needed and marked the low point. Now I just pull water to low point and refill. works great for me.
That does work. But when you get to bucket 20 or 30 it gets old. That and you have to keep count... lol
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