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Cycling Chemistry Log

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, 02-07-2011 at 10:59 AM (18360 Views)
7 Feb 2011, 0911hrs,
Ammonia--0.25ppm
Nitrite--NO2--0.25ppm
Nitrate--NO3-- 5 ppm
Phosphate-0.5ppm
Specific Gravity-- 1.023
pH--8.4
Calcium--360
KH--304.3ppm or dKH--17

We've used up the last of the Instant Ocean Salt, I'm going to get Kent this time, and some GFO. Tank is still cycling some. Last night I scrubbed the rock we put in, as it had more dead stuff on it than I realized. Tank is clear, and I saw two very tiny either feather dusters or aiptasia on one rock, too tiny to tell. Not ready to transfer Little Bright Reef to its new home yet.

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  1. Midnight's Avatar
    Why not use Reef Crystals by Instant Ocean? Also, why on earth is your alk so high?
  2. briight's Avatar
    Tap Water, and a limestone aquifer. We had done okay with the 20 gallon tank on tap water, using GFO to keep phosphates down, but on the larger scale of the 125, it is more economical and entails less FAF to use an RO/DI, so that will be the next major purchase. That will take care of the high dKH. We dosed kalkwasser on the 20 gal as well, and while we still had a high dKH, it wasn't as high as the fresh SW we have mixed recently.
    Instant Ocean and Reef Crystals are both good salts IMHO, but I favor the make-up of Kent salt and also got an excellent sale price at PetSolutions.com, at $41.99 per 200 gallon box.

    I base my choice partially on this article : http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/pla...Primary-El.htm ,
    as well as several threads on Reef Central concerning the consistency of salt mixes, in the Reef Chemistry forum.
    Thank you for reading too--composing my answer caused me to re-read the above articles and threads, never a bad thing.
  3. briight's Avatar
    8 Feb 2011, 1812 hrs
    Ammonia--0.25ppm
    Nitrite--NO2--.25ppm
    Nitrate--NO3-- 10 ppm

    Still cycling.