Wowee look at those gorgeous clams!!

Great Pictures Doug!
Keep them coming..

Thank a bunch guys.:biggrin:

First off I have to say how happy I am with the little naso...he/she is sooooooooo fat with algae and the tank is visibly cleaner. I never would have thought a fish that size would have such an impact. On the flip side I think he may be a stinker once he grows up some. He already doesnt show any fear of the two much lager tangs and even has a bit of "tude" about them.


Ok, so here is the reason for me switching salts. The tests from this morning were
sg .024
dkh 9 elos
Mg 1320 Sali
Ca 380 Sali
and I dosed
3 caps of Tailored aquatics dkh
3 caps of Tailored aquatics Mg
and 100ml of kent 2 part
Just to keep things where they are...I have dosed that amount everyday for four days:neutral: Something had to give. So the first and least expensive thing to change I figure is the salt. The slick new packaging is what sold me on the deltec salt...cool looking black bucket....oh ya and there was something else about the levels being good or something. So.....I tested it.

sg .024
dkh 5 not so impressed with that:sad:
Mg 1440
Ca 480
So I will be doing the first change on the tank tomorrow...I thought I could ease off on the testing but will now have to tweak things a little Im sure to get things figured out.....Im also sure an expensive calcium spewing gadget is in the near future. I love this hobby.:mrgreen:

Damn... dkh 5!?!... I need to make a batch and do some testing.... :neutral:

:lol: I am soooooo done with any of these so-called "premium salts".

Well, the way I see things is I will hopefully need to dose less Ca and Mg by running this salt and it is less expensive than KZRB....a win-win for me, methinks. Of course I will make up those costs in test kits:mrgreen:

I picked up a couple more frags...these ones are from the "mac acro sps daddy" hiseff, Greg.:biggrin:

*holds frags up in display fashion with cheese eating grin on face*:becky:
a .convexa
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2976.jpg

rainbow stylophora
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2978.jpg

Nice tank Doug, although I have not seen a recent picture of it. All those beautiful frags must look great in there. And the Clams --> WOW!

Give us a tank shot when you get a min.

Trying the Stylo again! Nice..

Is it really cheaper in the long run though? If there's one lesson I can impart onto anyone from my mistakes, it would be "don't slough off on testing." If a number is important to you, you need to track it. I feel so completely burned on KZRB now, I felt "Well, I don't need to test because I paid more!" .. Yes it is my mistake and I accept responsibility for it .. the point is .. if I have to test anyhow and dose to adjust Ca/Alk/Mg anyhow ..then I might as well take the salt that costs half because the additives I use are paid for by the difference. For real. And they last me way longer than a bucket of salt. I guess there must be different break-even points depending on total volumes, bioloads, water change volumes and frequencies, targetted levels and consumption rates, and the additives one uses. (Wow, that's a lot of variables. Can we work in moon phases into the list too? :neutral: ).

I dunno, but it just seems to me that everytime I've listened to the hype about a salt, I've been disappointed. A salt is a salt? Can it really be a tipping point (barring "bad" salts or batches or whatever)..