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lastlight · #1 11-12-2009, 02:36 AM

Just tested again (Salifert) and it's simply a milky white colour. Which means it's still less than 0.25 as the actual scale moves from colourless to shades of yellow. I see no yellow at all so far.

Planning a waterchange on my one week anniversary. Skimmate is getting nastier looking daily.

Thanks.

EDIT: Guess miracles *don't* happen. I'm topping my freshwater reservoir up right now and indeed without the DI I'm getting a reading of 4. Which actually makes me happy because zero seemed unreasonable to me before and I questioned the meter. Also when I fired up the unit It read about 170 and dropped to 4 in about 30 seconds. So TDS creep is also real I'll have to run that water elsewhere for 30 seconds in the future with a diverter valve.

lastlight · #2 11-12-2009, 04:14 PM

The plot thickens:

shrimpchips · #3 11-12-2009, 07:21 PM

Mmmmm soup!!

I think water and rock ruined your build. Looked so much nicer empty

Thanks for documenting everything so well, this build definitely serves as an inspiration

lobsterboy · #4 11-12-2009, 08:45 PM

hey Brett

your tank and set up is all so professional, very very well done.

i hope my new system will be like this.

cant wait to see some live stock in there.

Myka · #5 11-13-2009, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Also when I fired up the unit It read about 170 and dropped to 4 in about 30 seconds.

That's pretty typical. I always let a few hundred mL go through the system before catching the water.

lastlight · #6 11-13-2009, 01:23 AM

Thanks guys.

Yeah I'll do that next time for sure. After setting up my first water-change today I think I may need to rework how my system works a bit for ease of use etc but for now it'll do.

And last night after I let the unit run even longer it DID drop finally to zero again.