Testing Alan's tank....dam you lumpers!

[AJ_77]

Thanks Kim - we'll stay as long as the fun is goin' ON! In other words, more than 2 hours. ;)

Tony: I'd gladly take the extra bag o' mysis, but Mitch has indicated he's coming Saturday, and he is welcome to the extras. I'll be happy with my 5, unless of course Mitch DOESN'T SHOW UP! (Insert ominous music here.)

I thought you had your scheduling conflict worked out, and you and Linda were coming earler? If not, I can maybe swing by your place "on the way" to Kim's and pick up the goods.

Cheers!

[Canadian Man]

Tony,

My levels before I played around with them were 2.2meq/l and 380mg/l. I know things in my tank are doing fine but I wanted my levels at the following: 3.2meq/l and 430mg/l. I would be extremely happy if they were at this level and I assume my corals may grow faster as a result???
Who knows? :confused:

[Tau2301]

Question:

If natural seawater has Alk of 2.6meq/l and Cal of 380mg/l (not sure on this one).

Why do we need more? Is it just to speed up growth?

I don't know if I am the big a hurry...

[Bob I]

Tony if someone else wants the Mysis I ordered please sell it to him. I just cannot find the time or inclination to travel to the deep south for something that sounds difficult to handle. :eek:

[AJ_77]

"Difficult to handle?" Bob, please...

Step 1: Take frozen mysis container, remove small cube.

Step 2: Drop cube into tank.

I'll bring it back North for you this weekend, sir, if that pleases you. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Delphinus]

Kim: you are exactly right. Can't beat good old NSW values. I don't know why it is generally recommended to go with "at least" NSW values (ie. implying that you can go higher) but my bet is that it does have to do with increasing growth rates. When everything in your tank is 1", I guess there could be incentive to try to get things to grow into the tank some ...

Bob: I don't find the stuff all that difficult to handle, no different to me than any other frozen food... Have you ever tried the Piscine Energetics? This is supposed to be the same, more or less.

I don't know where Mitch is ... he hasn't posted here for some time. Maybe he's on vacation?

[EmilyB]

Originally posted by Tau2301:
Question:

If natural seawater has Alk of 2.6meq/l and Cal of 380mg/l (not sure on this one).

.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Full strength seawater at 35ppt salinity has 410-450 m/l calcium, and Alk of 2.9 roughly.

I have never gone below 420Ca/Alk about 3.1 (with DI, now RO/DI), but there are many other variables to consider as well, the most important of which I would consider to be occupants, water change size/frequency and salt mix.

Just MHFO of course. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Canadian Man]

The reason baking soda is not good is it initially decreases you ph. in my situation it was recomended by Reefcentrals chemistry guru to use baking soda to increase my alk because i dose kalk to maintain. if you are using baking soda on a consistant basis then it will throw out the ionic balance of your tank out or something like that :rolleyes:

yes kim kalk is balanced but like tony said it works well to maintain levels but raising is not too possible with the use of it.

I did use baking soda over the past few days to raise my alk and kent sbdkh, but my calcium droped to 360.

slow and steady wins the race.

oooooo if those guys arent going to pick up their mysis gold, i will buy it :D

[AJ_77]

Hold off there, Jonny! That there's MY fish vittles!

Tony, is this Saturday OK - can you bring it to Kim's place? (Of course, I'm counting on Kim's good nature and 2 hours' freezer storage.) I'll be happy to complete our transaction at that time, if that 's OK with you. Oh, and the ballast as well, if you still have that.

Pls confirm my # of bags and total $$. Thanks. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Alan

[Delphinus]

Actually I think baking soda all by itself is just sodium bicarbonate, and you want a few carbonate ions in there too. (Hmmm. I probably have that backwards, but, you get the idea.) It's the fact that you want both bicarbonate AND carbonate, and baking soda is only the one, and washing soda (yup, Arm & Hammer brand :D ) is the other kind. The exact recipe and the reasoning and explanations can be found on RC, even just do a search in Randy's chem forum, I beleive he has even suggested the "cheapy super buffer solution" in the past.