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220 Gallons of Eye Candy

3reef Aquarium Showcase item created by civiccars2003, Jun 9, 2014

  1. chris adams

    chris adams Purple Tang

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    Glad to hear you are turning it around. To much ALK or not enough?

    Turkey what were you doing there? :drool::yelrotflmao:
     
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  3. civiccars2003

    civiccars2003 Great Blue Whale

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    Alk being too low. I have always struggled to keep alk in check.

    As for Turkey, I was in Istanbul and Ankara. I work for a company that designs boilers, we were over there trying to sell one.
     
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    Oh ya even in my 30 I have to dose daily or it drops by 1 dkh and calcium 10 to 15 ppm a day Can't wait for the doser and get my kalk reactor. Do you have a kalk reactor? How much alk do you dose daily?
     
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    civiccars2003 Great Blue Whale

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    I dont have a reactor. Recently I have been experimenting with sodium bicarbonate dosing thru my ato for alk. I have got it to rise through this method, but requires constant maintenance and adding of the suppliment. I have also been playing around with kalk in my ato, but cant seem to get it to disolve. Its a diffucult thing to keep water parameters in check.
     
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    Agree params depending on system can be tough to stabilize. I just hope with the latest purchases implemented I can get to a point where I am comfortable only checking params once a week and keep going from there.
     
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    Welcome back! Bring back any rugs? :) I really enjoyed my trips there.
     
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    civiccars2003 Great Blue Whale

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    IMG_6462.JPG No rugs, but I did bring back a couple bottles of this... IMG_6462.JPG
     
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    miss that country
     
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    Do you know how much the alk drops in 24 hours? Any trouble keeping the Calcium in check? I took me a while to dial in the kalk in the ato and it does not all dissolve. It seemed to help getting the alk where i wanted it with baked baking soda and then the kalk now keeps it at that level.

    If you need anything i can help you with just let me know.