Something's Gone Awry

Whats the newest update??

 

Tomorrow I'm changing another 15 gallons, scrubbing my LR in the removed water, and placing it back into the tank. In a few days after that I'm going to remove my sand, and replace it with new, dry aragonite sand. I'll then seed the tank with a bottle of prime, or somesuch bacteria cocktail, and take it from there.

If I can gauge my progress by how my frogspawn looks, I'd say I'm 50/50 maybe turning the corner. I can't quite say yet, though.

One way or another I'll pull through.

 

Good luck buddy! Watching my frogspawn grow is one of my fav things, I can't imagine what you've been through, keep with it!!

 

I seriously doubt this is it but I just wanted to mention it. Most dual inline models have dual pins on each probe. To get an accurate reading, it's required that the pins are submerged fully and are lined up straight up and down and not side to side nor anywhere in between. Was it this one? Dual Inline TDS Meter - AquaCave The reasons for this are quite boring but TDS is now extrapolated via conductivity as opposed measuring individual elements like it used to be.

HM Digital got so sick of people not reading the manual and installing them wrong and calling customer service that they raised the price a little and started putting the John Guest fittings on themselves to avoid the hassle.

 

Sorry for the multiple posts but I'm reading this thread from the beginning and I'm basically commenting on what I see because I don't trust myself to remember everything when I finally get to the end.

Some ground probes want you to keep all plastic parts at the top of the Titanium out of the water at all times. Other brands don't care because they seal them very well. Tangster's idea to make sure it's sealed well if the plastic is submerged should not be ignored. To keep my plastic out of the water, mine hung from a piece of string tied around a thumbtack that was pushed into the bottom of my stand. Hey, I'm Missouri White Trash and I'm proud of it.

 

Nope, but it helps get rid of it quicker and it also prevents YOU from being the source to ground. (That's a GOOD thing).

 

Thanks for the input, Curt. It wasn't that model exactly, but similar. It was a dual display model, so two barrels. For what it's worth, this model's pins are side by side (two in each as you say) and they're perpendicular to the long barrel, so as I held it, they were not up and down, rather side to side.

 

LOL. I can understand the reasoning behind keeping that part out of the water. That "plastic part" is hiding the joint where the titanium changes to copper. Copper is bad for corals, as we all know. Mine is in my corner overflow; and the joint happens to be above water.

 

Well, my electrician buddy gave me a couple of pieces of xenia frags (begged me to take them, they're growing like weeds in his tank). It's been about 48 hours, and they're dead. That's a world record for me; I've never even killed a relationship with a girl in high school that fast! The frags never even opened up.

Anyway, I've scrubbed my LR clean of algae in the water I removed in my 15 gallon water change yesterday--and I'm about to remove half the sand today. The other half tomorrow. I think I made a major mistake moving the sand from my 55 when I upgraded 3 months ago. Geek says that's a major no-no. Well I learned the hard way.

I'm making some RO water now to replace the water I remove in the sand removal, then after half is removed, I'm going to hit the LFS and buy some new dry aragonite sand, and a bottle of Prime.

If the sand change doesn't do it, I'm going to put a bullet in my head.

 

I dont understand what does the sand exchange have to do with the issue at hand. When I upgraded from my 45g to my current 90g, I took all the sand from one tank to the other without even cleaning it and I didnt go through what your going through. I lost nothing on the transfer. Theres something here that we're over looking. Do you have the funds to get your water analyzed? Have you checked your return pump for any leaks? I know that these question may have been asked already, but just trying to figure this chit out. Luna