10-07-2006, 11:04 PM
HEY TTTM
Do you use use Calcium Hydroxide(pickling lime) in your top off?
This helps keep your alkalinity and Ph in balance.
Also I will look it up but there is a home recipe using washing soda and baking soda to help with PH and alk. This is only a boost and a temp fix.
The wasing soda will bring it down if it is high and thre combo will bring up the Alk.
Good piece of coral to get is Xenia(SP Red Sea).
This stuff pulses and I used it as an idicator on how the tank is doing.
Once I learned the characteristics of the coral s in the tank with parameters I never uses test kits---I would know just by looking at the tank.
Do not get a lot of it--just a few stalks---it will grow like weeds and you will give it away or flush it. It will stink up the hands if you smush it---use lots of lemon juice to rid the smell from your hands. It is nasty.
When you get some, LMK and I will tell you how to get it to mount on a small rock. Oh and it will move to another location on it's own.
Also I hope you are using a skimmer.
Also I hope you are not using a UV sterilizer. You only need them if it is a FOWLR(Fish Only With Live Rock).
Stay tuned for more Edyamacation when I think of it or something comes up
Do you use use Calcium Hydroxide(pickling lime) in your top off?
This helps keep your alkalinity and Ph in balance.
Also I will look it up but there is a home recipe using washing soda and baking soda to help with PH and alk. This is only a boost and a temp fix.
The wasing soda will bring it down if it is high and thre combo will bring up the Alk.
Good piece of coral to get is Xenia(SP Red Sea).
This stuff pulses and I used it as an idicator on how the tank is doing.
Once I learned the characteristics of the coral s in the tank with parameters I never uses test kits---I would know just by looking at the tank.
Do not get a lot of it--just a few stalks---it will grow like weeds and you will give it away or flush it. It will stink up the hands if you smush it---use lots of lemon juice to rid the smell from your hands. It is nasty.
When you get some, LMK and I will tell you how to get it to mount on a small rock. Oh and it will move to another location on it's own.
Also I hope you are using a skimmer.
Also I hope you are not using a UV sterilizer. You only need them if it is a FOWLR(Fish Only With Live Rock).
Stay tuned for more Edyamacation when I think of it or something comes up
Life is like Beavers, One Damn thing after another- Unknown
If your not breakin parts your not going fast enough-Biodragen
NTC3 RTR assoc .15
NTC3 OS .18
Losi 8T, JR8611a ST servo, Futaba 9350 Th\Brk Servo, RB-C6BB Motor and Novarossi 528XR.
If your not breakin parts your not going fast enough-Biodragen
NTC3 RTR assoc .15
NTC3 OS .18
Losi 8T, JR8611a ST servo, Futaba 9350 Th\Brk Servo, RB-C6BB Motor and Novarossi 528XR.