Well, you wouldn’t have to dose the Baking Soda every day. Once you slowly bring up your KH in your main tank, then you would just have to dose the new water going in with your weekly PWC’s.
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In a densly populated coral tank, such as mine, a calcium reactor is a huge help to maintain proper calcium and alkalinity levels. I also dose the occasional Kalkwasser in the top-off water. Individual products such as B-Ionic for me are used solely to correct any imabalances which are rare once the calcium reactor is […]
I have a 40 gallon tank with just a couple of fish and a bunch of live rock. I rarely do any maintenance, so I get a lot of aiptasia (which I eventually get around to getting rid of), but I have enough coralline algae growth that I have to keep scraping […]
I can’t say I have heard great things about purple up, I haven’t tried it myself. Hard to compare the two however, purple up is calcium and iodine while the two-part B-Ionic is calcium and alkalinity. All are important elements, but calcium, alkalinity and magnesium are the more important elements for calcification. They are also […]
My pH is low most of the time, and I had to struggle at first to figure out what kind of fish I could keep with my pH of 6-6.5. I also have very soft water, it barely reads when I test it off of the tap, so I add coral (dead […]
Hi Ray,
Would you know the diameter of the size of gravel for # 2 or # 3.
Thanks for your wealth of info.
Regards,
red-eye
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From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Raymond Wetzel Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:17 AM To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [AquaticLife] Re: Pea Gravel & CAE
Yes, as the hobbyist usually buys an […]
Yes, as the hobbyist usually buys an algae eater to take care of just that problem which these fish are best known to address, WITHOUT harassing their other fish when it gets bigger (as the CAE will), the hobbyist should look for an SAE (Siamese Algae Eater) — which will continue to graze on algae […]
Okay, here are my Water Perameters: NO3 (nitrates) = 20 NO2 (nitrates) = .5 Hardness = 425 Alkalinity = 180 PH = 8
More info. This is my 55 Gallon. It just has gravel and decor; it’s not planted. And I am due for my weekly vaccum, cleaning & PWC. And Filter maintenance; thus my tank […]
Based on your initial post and \Steve//’s follow-up post, you might want to double check your instructions. Since you are getting the color change at 10 drops, for other freshwater KH test kits (Carbonate Hardness is often mis-called Alkalinity), so when we get the color change, that’s the dH (degrees of Hardness) level of […]
Ooops, my bad. You mean those subject lines mean something?
Alkalinity for a reef tank should be in this range (depending on your measurement scale: 2.5-4 meq/L, 7-11 dKH, or 125-200 ppm CaCO3 equivalents. Using what is known as kalkawasser or a similar product will help supplement and maintain your alkalinity. I am not familiar with […]