Water Chemistry

Water test of RO/DI water: .5ppm Ammonia


Water test of Tap water: 1ppm Ammonia


Water test of tank water: 0 Ammonia


Thanks for making me break out my kit, Kirk of DFWMAS. I'm adding Seachem's Prime to my ATO reservoir, and purifying a pump so I can lower it in there to mix up the product ...

Today was catch up on everything that needed doing. Had to get a sump built, fix my darn sprinklers, get a frag into an Interceptor bath, clean the skimmer and do all my water tests. The tank is doing very well, numbers-wise:



I tested Magnesium with my Salifert kit, but also did a test with a borrowed Red Sea Reef Foundation kit that Wes lent me. It still reads way too high (1600ppm), even with his kit. I'm going ...

Did a full battery of tests tonight to see where things are, and upped the output of the calcium reactor slightly to bring Alkalinity back up a skotch. I've been pretty busy as usual, but do enjoy the tank every day.

For the past two weeks, I was thinking about modifying my Euroreef protein skimmer so it could work in conjunction with my NextReef biopellet reactor. I was considering drilling a hole in the body of the skimmer, inserting a uniseal and then pumping the effluent of the reactor into the reaction chamber of the skimmer. In this way, it would definitely export dead or dying bacteria exiting the reactor. Perhaps that stuff was causing the dinoflagellates in my tank, I really don't know.
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Yesterday I posted up the latest water parameters from my tank. Here are a couple of graphs to show how the Aqua Controller tracks some variables.

ORP: I've been dosing Hydrogen Peroxiide (3%) each morning, so the ORP rises sharply and then drops down over the next few hours. I'm dosing it to kill dinoflagellates, and that dose is 1ml per 10g actual water volume. This is done daily for 7 days, and today is the last day. It appears to have worked.

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