mitten_reef Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 27 minutes ago, TheKleinReef said: hahaha did you drunk-typed that? cuz you just replied/laughed at your own post....😂 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted March 28, 2023 Author Share Posted March 28, 2023 13 minutes ago, mitten_reef said: did you drunk-typed that? cuz you just replied/laughed at your own post....😂 i'm laughing at myself cause i usually post my ramblings in my lounge thread 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted March 29, 2023 Author Share Posted March 29, 2023 okay so we know alk goes up during denitrification. but why is calcium going up at the same rate? 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 2 hours ago, TheKleinReef said: okay so we know alk goes up during denitrification. but why is calcium going up at the same rate? you have a natural calcium reactor? how's the tank pH profile? is there a dip in pH every time there's a rise in Ca-Alk? Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted March 29, 2023 Author Share Posted March 29, 2023 4 minutes ago, mitten_reef said: you have a natural calcium reactor? how's the tank pH profile? is there a dip in pH every time there's a rise in Ca-Alk? nope. anything aragonite shouldn't be dissolving below a pH of like 7. my pH never drops below 7.8. i bought another pH meter to verify pH as well. apex is within .03 of the handheld meter. 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted March 29, 2023 Author Share Posted March 29, 2023 looking at this graph, it's odd when pH hits 7.9 alk goes up. but aragonite should not be dissolving at 7.9 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 21 minutes ago, TheKleinReef said: looking at this graph, it's odd when pH hits 7.9 alk goes up. but aragonite should not be dissolving at 7.9 lol, at this point, I just love living in the oblivious world of zero reef tank data points, lol. If I want to know where my alk is, I test it - it's done. knowing this much is too confusing, haha. Join me on the dark side, get rid of Apex...🤣 1 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted March 29, 2023 Author Share Posted March 29, 2023 1 hour ago, mitten_reef said: Join me on the dark side, get rid of Apex...🤣 after an alk related crash.... no lol 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted March 30, 2023 Author Share Posted March 30, 2023 ignore the dead tips and algae. focus on the green. It’s coming back. 2 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted March 30, 2023 Author Share Posted March 30, 2023 Acro on the end is coming back with the blue hue but it’s hard to get a good pic with the iPhone. Will get real pics soon. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted March 30, 2023 Author Share Posted March 30, 2023 looks like alk is topping out at 8.9 guess i'll leave it there and adjust water change water as needed 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted April 2, 2023 Author Share Posted April 2, 2023 It’s been sitting between 8.8 and 9.0 for the most part. I guess I’ll try and keep it here 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted April 3, 2023 Author Share Posted April 3, 2023 Something is off Quote Link to comment
A.m.P Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 43 minutes ago, TheKleinReef said: Something is off Yeah, something seems very off there, that's just an insane amount of extra buffer to end up in the water. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted April 3, 2023 Author Share Posted April 3, 2023 1 hour ago, A.m.P said: Yeah, something seems very off there, that's just an insane amount of extra buffer to end up in the water. Yeah. With no change in pH or anything else. Everything looks good. Will recalibrate it tomorrow. 2 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 15 hours ago, TheKleinReef said: Yeah. With no change in pH or anything else. Everything looks good. Will recalibrate it tomorrow. Can you tell me again how many times per day you’re testing? My friend said he gets consistent results, but only because he runs it every two hours. Makes me wonder if there’s a recommended tests/day to keep reagent and sample in the line from getting stagnant. 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted April 3, 2023 Author Share Posted April 3, 2023 21 minutes ago, mitten_reef said: Can you tell me again how many times per day you’re testing? My friend said he gets consistent results, but only because he runs it every two hours. Makes me wonder if there’s a recommended tests/day to keep reagent and sample in the line from getting stagnant. Minimum test is 4 alk tests and 2 ca/mag tests. Recalibrated it and it’s working fine now. I think it just ran out of reagent and it messed it all up. It said there’s was 48% left but it was Empty. I replaced the A reagent and calibrated. Now it’s working fine. 2 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted April 4, 2023 Author Share Posted April 4, 2023 Except now my ca is testing low. O_o ugh this is frustrating Quote Link to comment
A.m.P Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 1 hour ago, TheKleinReef said: Except now my ca is testing low. O_o ugh this is frustrating TBH, CA swings seem to be slow-moving and well handled by livestock, unless you have a precipitation event Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted April 4, 2023 Author Share Posted April 4, 2023 Now my ca is testing high. Something isn’t right with the trident 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted April 4, 2023 Author Share Posted April 4, 2023 wait, now it's okay. a little low, but okay. tank looks good though. Lots of color on the SPS coming back Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted April 5, 2023 Author Share Posted April 5, 2023 Trident is busted. That didn’t take long lol. 2 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 40 minutes ago, TheKleinReef said: Trident is busted. That didn’t take long lol. Repairable? I’m sure there are some YouTube out there on how to perform repair/maintenance. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted April 5, 2023 Author Share Posted April 5, 2023 13 minutes ago, mitten_reef said: Repairable? I’m sure there are some YouTube out there on how to perform repair/maintenance. luckily I am big brain and figured it out. A connection to the solenoid was loose. Probably got pushed off due to back pressure from the waste line. no more leaking now. recalibrating it since the last time I did it, it was likely leaking. which makes sense. It thought it dumped in a lot of reagent when it didn’t. Cause most of it went on the floor of the trident. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
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