ray j neal
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I have a 24G nano and am new to the 'small' tank crew. Are you guys and girls maintaining your levels through water changes? What do you do to maintain these levels and how often must adjustments be made?
Maintaining Calc, Alk, Mag
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nano-newb1983
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i have never dosed anything, all my parameters are perfect. I think the weekly water changes have been alot of it.
coral keeper
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I just do 12% weekly water changes and I don't dose anything but live phytoplankton every now and then.
subielover
Active Member
Same here 15% weekly water changes with Tropic Marin Pro Reef, my calcium is up, and everything else is stable.
ray j neal
Member
So if there is no need to dose these, do you guys/gals see it necessary to invest in these test kits?
nano-newb1983
Active Member
YES GET A TEST KIT!!!! Still good to know where your parameters at if NEEDED to does anything you will know what to get
ray j neal
Member
I have used Instant Ocean for my 150G FOWLR for two years now. I buy this salt because I get it at $29 for a big bucket. I am hoping this is okay for my 24G reef because I just filled the tank with a batch of ro/di mixed with the IO.
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markeo99
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sorry instant ocean is no go on a reef low trace elements and cal and stuff
great for fish needs to be dosed up for reef use
great for fish needs to be dosed up for reef use
subielover
Active Member
The salt is up to you, the way I see it is you get what you pay for. The other reef biased salts that you see advertised, that are much more expensive than IO, have higher levels of calcium and other trace elements, fwiw.
nano-newb1983
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how is Oceanic Natural Sea Salt Mix? thats what im using
fcatch76
Member
Originally Posted by NaNo-NeWb1983
http:///forum/post/2812898
how is Oceanic Natural Sea Salt Mix? thats what im using
Thats what I use and my calcium is never an issue, Alk. is good and pH stable.
http:///forum/post/2812898
how is Oceanic Natural Sea Salt Mix? thats what im using
Thats what I use and my calcium is never an issue, Alk. is good and pH stable.
nano-newb1983
Active Member
Originally Posted by fcatch76
http:///forum/post/2812900
Thats what I use and my calcium is never an issue, Alk. is good and pH stable.
good to hear
havent had a problem with those as well.. hehe
http:///forum/post/2812900
Thats what I use and my calcium is never an issue, Alk. is good and pH stable.
good to hear
ray j neal
Member
I am going to order three buckets of oceanic natural sea salt. Anyone have experience with the two part doser c-balance? It is suppose to help maintain proper relationship between calc and alk when used properly. I will have some SPS, allbeit not a whole lot, so I plan on having to dose occasionally, even with a good salt mix.
rotarymagic
Active Member
I personally use IO reef crystals... higher everything.
libog2fish
Member
I've dosed almost everyday...
I've used my own method....
I'm doing it the way how it is suppose to be done,this doing is to follow a certain pattern...I dose calcium 2 part...I use 1 cap full of seachem's active and dose a half cup of purple up...
next day is the Magnesiuem...along with a 2 tsp mix with RO/DI water and of Dt's phyto...2tsp...
for the next day it will end off with strontium and on the seventh day it ends off with wheaton's Iodine 4 drips from my srinyge...
this happens every week till my next water change...
when I do a 20% change...
I let my reef sit for 4 days with no dosage and start from there...
you can hate my way or you can try my way...
but all I know is I'm doing things my way...
btw I have test kits although have only tested if somthing I think is bothering me...
but agian the saying goes...
"you learn from your mistakes"
I've used my own method....
I'm doing it the way how it is suppose to be done,this doing is to follow a certain pattern...I dose calcium 2 part...I use 1 cap full of seachem's active and dose a half cup of purple up...
next day is the Magnesiuem...along with a 2 tsp mix with RO/DI water and of Dt's phyto...2tsp...
for the next day it will end off with strontium and on the seventh day it ends off with wheaton's Iodine 4 drips from my srinyge...
this happens every week till my next water change...
when I do a 20% change...
I let my reef sit for 4 days with no dosage and start from there...
you can hate my way or you can try my way...
but all I know is I'm doing things my way...
btw I have test kits although have only tested if somthing I think is bothering me...
but agian the saying goes...
"you learn from your mistakes"
ray j neal
Member
Roarty, not to jack my own thread, but is your username in refrence to the wankel? Sounds weird but if it is then you know exactly what a 'wankel' is.
rotarymagic
Active Member
Originally Posted by Ray J Neal
http:///forum/post/2815374
Roarty, not to jack my own thread, but is your username in refrence to the wankel? Sounds weird but if it is then you know exactly what a 'wankel' is.
yep sure is.... I used to have a 94 Rx-7 touring years ago.. if I'd have kept it just one more month before I sold it, Id have found out about that hinson supercars LSx swap lol...BTW I hate rotaries except for n/a peripheral ported 4rotors because the shrill scream is pretty sick and 590+whp on pumpgas N/A!!!! nice....
BTW you still got that 78 camaro?
lol... I can be a stalker too Mr. hotrodder dot com
http:///forum/post/2815374
Roarty, not to jack my own thread, but is your username in refrence to the wankel? Sounds weird but if it is then you know exactly what a 'wankel' is.
yep sure is.... I used to have a 94 Rx-7 touring years ago.. if I'd have kept it just one more month before I sold it, Id have found out about that hinson supercars LSx swap lol...BTW I hate rotaries except for n/a peripheral ported 4rotors because the shrill scream is pretty sick and 590+whp on pumpgas N/A!!!! nice....
BTW you still got that 78 camaro?
lol... I can be a stalker too Mr. hotrodder dot com