Over the past three weeks I've watched my pH go from 8.12 to today's reading of <span style="color: black;">7.19</span>.
Below are the parameters and details of the tank. I did a 15% water change this morning and changed media in the GFO and carbon reactors.
1) Rock: 50 lbs of live rock from an established tank and 100 lbs of Marco rock cycled in Brute tanks for six weeks.
2) Tank: 90g rr with 30g sump (including refugium). 80 lbs aragonite sand and 20 lbs GARF Grunge.
3) Equipment: MSX-160 skimmer, Dual GFO/Carbon reactors, 2 - 250x MH, 2 - VHO acintics, heaters, 2 - Korilia 4 PH, AquaController Jr. (Ca reactor and CO2 not hooked up.)
4) Water
<ul>
<li>RO/DI: TDS = 0.0</li>
<li>Salt: Instant Ocean</li>
<li>Params of new salt water mixed for 24 hours:
Below are the parameters and details of the tank. I did a 15% water change this morning and changed media in the GFO and carbon reactors.
1) Rock: 50 lbs of live rock from an established tank and 100 lbs of Marco rock cycled in Brute tanks for six weeks.
2) Tank: 90g rr with 30g sump (including refugium). 80 lbs aragonite sand and 20 lbs GARF Grunge.
3) Equipment: MSX-160 skimmer, Dual GFO/Carbon reactors, 2 - 250x MH, 2 - VHO acintics, heaters, 2 - Korilia 4 PH, AquaController Jr. (Ca reactor and CO2 not hooked up.)
4) Water
<ul>
<li>RO/DI: TDS = 0.0</li>
<li>Salt: Instant Ocean</li>
<li>Params of new salt water mixed for 24 hours:
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<li>SG: 1.023</li>
<li>PH: 8.06</li>
<li>KH: 10.9</li>
</ul>
- Tank conditions:
<ul>
<li>SG: 1.023</li>
<li>PH: 7.19</li>
<li>Temp: 79.8</li>
<li>NH4 = 0</li>
<li>NO3 = 0</li>
<li>NO2 = .25</li>
<li>Ca = 300</li>
<li>KH = 8.0</li>
</ul>
- Livestock:
<ul>
<li>2 - False Percs</li>
<li>1 - Powder Brown Tang</li>
<li>1 - Royal Gamma</li>
<li>1 - Watchman Goby</li>
<li>1 - Six Line Wrasse</li>
<li>1 - Bubble Tip Anemone</li>
<li>4 - Peppermint Shrimp</li>
<li>1 - Coral Banded Shrimp</li>
<li>2 - Emerald Crabs</li>
<li>Hermits and Snails</li>
</ul>
- Worth noting:
<ul>
<li>2 Cardinals MIA presumed dead, but no corpus delicti.</li>
<li>Outbreak of golden brown algea earlier this week. CUC and reduced lighting seems to be overcoming the issue.</li>
<li>Salifert test kits</li>
<li>Refractometer for SG</li>
<li>AquaController Jr. with clinical pH probe. (two months old). Calibrated three times in the past week using Milwaukee 7.1 & 10.1 calibration fluid.</li>
<li>Due to the live rock curing for six weeks the tank did not produce high NH4, NO3, or NO2 results. First livestock introduced after tank was running one week. Water quality verified by LFS.</li>
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