PharmrJohn's 90g Thread

Oh, yeah......I totally forgot about the regulator. Bummer. Oh well. Drip system it is.

 

Testing

dKH: 11.4
Ca: 390
Temp: 82

I added another teaspoonful of Reef Builder to bring the dKH to 12. I'll hold it there for now. I tested the Ca before I did that. It was 10 above yesterday's number. I added enough RAC to bring it up to about 420 and it is dripping in now.

All the fish look good, but the corals look a bit tired. I didn't pay much attention this morning. It will be lights off here in about an hour or so.

 

Whats wrong with McGyver?

 

I could never stand McGyver. Getting out of all those situations with a toothbrush and a wire nut. Although it was not as bad as Knight Rider. I am not sure who was worse, Kit or David Hasselhoff. Ewww. Oh, I forgot about the A-team. Another stinker from the '80s. And the King of them all.....The Dukes of Hazzard. My friends parents used to watch that. I would avoid his house on that night.

 

McGyver could make your corals thrive and secure your plastic food containers from racoons all with a banana and a paperclip, but if your going to be like that, fine, he wont come help. He would have brought the General Lee with him too.

 

LOL!!!! I had forgotton the name of that car. It sold last year, I believe, for a pretty good sum of money. Nice car.

 

Which one? They actually went through about 23 of them a season

 

Don't know!!!! Seemed to me they had only a few left (maybe four or five). Something like that. But one dude just didn't want his anymore. I would have sold it too. Sooooooo many cool vehicles could be purchased for the price that thing sold for.

 

Testing

I just got done with the drip and the results are as follows

dKH: 11.4
Ca: 400
Temp: 82
PO4: Present (about 0.25)

Dosed with Phosphat-E (one capful)

The teapoonful of RB I added did not do anything except maintain what I did yesterday. The amount of RAC I added should have increased the calcium to about 415.

Tomorrow night, I am going to double the amount of RAC into solution and drip it in. I am aiming for 425 to 430 by tomorrow night. I will also add two teaspoonsful of RB to raise the dKH to a bit above 12. By Thursday, the Ca should be up to par and the Mg levels will be addressed. I am going to do daily adjustments of dKH as well. My corals have not been flourishing as they should. Keeping an eye on PO4 will help as well. Phosphat-E is my friend.

 

Testing

More testing.....trying to bring that Ca up.

Temp: 78
pH: 8.2
dKH: 12
Ca: 390
Mg: 1290
PO4: Present (~0.1)
NO3: 25

I am going to add one capful of phosphat-E and zero out the phosphates tonight then test every other day.

Ca is being stubborn. I doubled the concentration of my mix and it is dripping in now. My goal is 415 to 420 tonight.

dKH is fine. I am not going to mess with it until tomorrow morning. I will add two teaspoonsful of the RB. I want to maintain 12 or a little over.