Advice Please: Who runs cannister filters on their Reef and other things

[DiverDude]

Oh !? Do tell.

What's the 'solution' you got ? -NIST certified H2O ?

Originally Posted by globaldesigns

Re-Calibrated Refractometer with solution bought from Kevin @ Red Coral (again thanks), found it my refract was low by 2.5 points.

[globaldesigns]

Originally Posted by DiverDude

Oh !? Do tell.

What's the 'solution' you got ? -NIST certified H2O ?

Kevin sells a solution, that gives you the calibration points for many things... Salinity, MG, Calcium and so forth... Salinity, I believe it will give a true reading of 35, so I put a few drops on the refractometer and reset it to a true 35 reading... Good stuff!!!

[Slick Fork]

Are you dosing anything like Amino Acids? I'm not 100% up to speed on these pellets but when I was on the zeovit system I had to feed amino acids and other coral foods to really make the colours pop.

[globaldesigns]

Originally Posted by Slick Fork

Are you dosing anything like Amino Acids? I'm not 100% up to speed on these pellets but when I was on the zeovit system I had to feed amino acids and other coral foods to really make the colours pop.

Yes, I am running the full ZEO system, minus the zeolites... I have stopped dosing ZEO for the past couple days and seeing if things change or display differently... Maybe there is an overdose of ZEO somewhere where the Pellets are adding, then plus the ZEO is causing an overdose. Don't know here, just guessing.

Time will tell... I am actually rethinking the canister filter. Don't need it, but looking at other improvements.

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by globaldesigns

Kevin sells a solution, that gives you the calibration points for many things... Salinity, MG, Calcium and so forth... Salinity, I believe it will give a true reading of 35, so I put a few drops on the refractometer and reset it to a true 35 reading... Good stuff!!!

Distilled RO/DI water will do the same thing let it sit stale for 1 day in a glass.

[Slick Fork]

Originally Posted by Skimmer King

Distilled RO/DI water will do the same thing let it sit stale for 1 day in a glass.

That's good for zeroing it, but there are a lot of refractometers that don't scale properly which is why I've always seen it recommended that you calibrate it at 35