Still have 20lbs of Mag flake from ChemMasters at the moment but defiantly would like to know what you picked up.

Tony, when Littlesilvermax was closing out he told me that he did sell all is knowledge and recipes to someone on CanReef so maybe they will pick up where he left off. HINT HINT if you are that person & are reading this :biggrin:

Tony, that explains a lot, thanks. I suppose with my tank still in it's infancy, things might change as the corals take up more Ca/alk, but I've never measured and needed to add. I'll watch it now that I have a test kit, and perhaps I'll need to add some media, as I'm guessing having a large reactor has so far spared me from this stuff.
And ok, 47 tonnes might have been a bit of an exageration :)

So you aim for higher than 1350ish?? Like what, 1500ppm?

Well, ya, but today's LED systems should counter that, no?? -lol

Since my reactor days, I have added magnesium, { following Ben,s formula}, to my IO salt mix. Thats kept mine over 1350ppm, usually just over 1400ppm. I,m currently trying some Seachem salt, that has higher mag levels.

When I ran my co2 reactor, found the same results as Tony using Carib Sea ARM. Levels always stayed up, so it must give a decent amount of magnesium also.

well, less heat = less evaporation + reduced need for fans. so ya salt creep should be reduces and make up is reduced so it might :wink:

Steve

I aim for 1450ish. Happy with any reading from 1400 to 1500.

One can only hope. I have to admit that after the minimal amount I just ordered from BRS and the price doubling to get it shipped (AND it hasn't arrived yet almost two weeks later) that the thought occurred to me that if the void isn't filled soon that I'll just go ahead and fill the void. I'm hardly a master of anything so I'll just call my little enterprise ChemClutz.

So if that person is indeed reading this ... get on with it!! :p

off hand do you know the Mg reading in RBS salt?