Changed dosing shedule for KH & CA to increase a little. Check in a week.

Looks good so far

View March 24, 2018 10:25

Day 32

Alkalinity dosing seems spot on at the moment.
Keeping a close eye at it.

View February 18, 2018 20:31

Day 29
Things look stable.

Dosing 4ml KH Grow daily divided by 4 different times throughout the day. seems to hold it pretty stable so far.
Calcium I dose 2ml total daily for now.

Don’t want to do much more yet. Still waiting a while before I put in any corals.

View February 16, 2018 14:52

Day 26
Nothing going on. Just waiting for better stability.

View February 13, 2018 05:28

Day 20

Been a little hard on nopox it seems since I lack nitrate.

View February 7, 2018 08:17

Day 19
Today I started dosing CA, KH with my GHL Doser2.
Just a small buffer for now. That way I can get it right once a week with the water change once a week.

Skimmer is pulling a cloudy substance out of the water I guess that is coming from the nopox.

Measured my Nitrate today. It is at 1.0 ppm to low for my liking on a new tank so backing off nopox a little.

Nothing more right now really.

View February 5, 2018 18:04

Day 17
Holding back on calcium/magnesium/kh dosing until 4 days has passed so I can maintain it better with dosing unit.

Also measured my RO water and it contains really high magnesium, so I will most likely not dose that for a while. Thinking about either leaving it as is to use it as a buffer or get a filter for my RO unit. Guess it all comes down to if it accumulates or not.

Also kinda scary that I have a filter from my well that strips calcium from my water and when I did my water change last time my salinity was pretty high. Guess I really need to be careful so I don’t do the water change on the morning when the calcification unit has cycled its media. Need to read up on that as well, worried that the media in that unit also buffers magnesium. Well see what I can find out. Other than that not much is happening.

View February 3, 2018 10:22

Day 12
Added a fish today. Dosing NO3: PO4-X and maintaining my alkalinity. Not much else to do but wait.

View January 29, 2018 06:41

Day 10
Checked parameters today again and it is still going in the right direction.

Added some cleanup crews today. Few hours in its starting to look a little better. Also got 2 shrimps that supposedly are eating Aiptasia. That’s going to get interesting since I have a few small ones on one of my smaller stones.

First water change tomorow.

Oh. Also changed the stock circulation pump to a tunze silent pump and it’s a huge difference.
Also going to change the skimmer to a tunze 9001 but it was out of stock so I had to order one so that is not here until Monday.

That’s all for today.

View January 26, 2018 23:37

Day 7.
Added More from the Reef Mature kit. Just following the manual.

Steady rise of nitrates and nitrites and ammonia is going down as expected.

Glad it is working as intended.

View January 24, 2018 13:25