Ca/Alk/Mag Mess . . . How to fix?

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by jorjef

You say you don't want to spend the extra on a quality salt and rather go cuckoo trying to solve the balance. Well you might think differently when your tank is packed with corals and issues start popping up.. To pay an extra 20,30,40 bucks for a pail of salt is the price of one measly coral.

IO is fine for fish only tanks but not for reef IMO.

Very good points that I am getting clear as a smack to the face now ...
Brad eluded to the same idea earlier
You're gonna make me eat my words, aren't ya ?

When I was testing IO NSW with higher readings, I thought it would be enough to replenish my DT through WCs
Then these out of whack readings crammed a stick in my spokes ...
I am considering returning the newest unopened bucket of IO I have and getting into something like the IO Reef Crystals

FYI, I hadn't planned on packing so much money into it this quickly so I bought the 'economy' salt
I'll blame tang daddy and Bblinks for getting me into SPS right away

Don't get me wrong though as we are loving all the color and, so far, I haven't killed anything

[gregzz4]

My NSW is just over 1 hour old

79F
1.025 Sg
11 Alk
410 Ca

I'll retest it tomorrow before I use it and give another report

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

My NSW is just over 1 hour old

79F
1.025 Sg
11 Alk
410 Ca

I'll retest it tomorrow before I use it and give another report

Still not right for IO....you're holding that bottle right upside down, right?

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Still not right for IO....you're holding that bottle right upside down, right?

I am holding the bottles totally vertical and making sure I get a solid 'one' drip

As I said earlier, I'll re-test tomorrow before I use it and report whatever readings I find

So much for user technique ...
I'm starting to feel like it's 'loser' technique