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so washing soda = baked baking soda? cool. I keep my calcium at 440 and alkalinity at 4.0 meq/L. I test after each water change and then dose over the following week with B-ionic two-part. I have about 60X flow in my 10-gallon, but I wish I had my surface-skimmer still running. That could be...

dang! >:( :'(

Thanks, Rehype! I'm excited too. Glad I have one month of an overlap in my two apartments; gives me a chance to move everything s-l-o-w-ly... I guess I'll start curing the new live-rock soon, then when I move in, I'll fill the tank and add the cured rock and new live-sand, maybe seeded with...

pgordermer: that's a good point about testing pH in water that is 0 TDS. Didn't think about that... vangvace: I'm not thinking it's the closed room thing, as I'm noticing the pH continuing to drop even now in the spring when I leave the windows open. Edward771: the article doesn't really say...

thanks for the advice! Good to know I didn't mess anything up, even if what I did was sort of a waste of time. I change about 1.5 gallons a week on my 10 gallon. I haven't added any fish yet, so nitrates are 0.1 (Salifert). I guess I'll have to up the water-change percentage once the fish comes...

just started yesterday, so I'll have to get back to you with the results. All I did was dissolve a tablespoon of baking soda (directly out of the box) in two cups of RO water and then added it to the 3 gallons of distilled already in my top-off reservoir.

I had a 3/4" SQWD on my 10 gallon. It really impeded the flow on my closed loop. Ticked me off, 'cause I then had to scrap all the plumbing I made. >:( I ended up selling it and buying a Koralia nano to match the one I already had in my 10 gallon nano. With the Koralias aimed at one another...

Impressive. MOST impressive.

does anyone care what the pH is of their top-off water? I've been noticing my pH ever so slowly move from 8.3-7.8 over the course of the year my tank has been running. I just checked my top-off tank's pH... off-the-scale low, as it is distilled. So, I buffered it with some baking soda up to 8.0...

here's my current 10 gallon... I'm moving across town and getting married in a month. Here's the expected upgrade, an 18" ADA cube: Here's my thinking on livestock: transfer all inhabitants (birdsnest, green acro, orange monti cap, gsp, xenia, frogspawn, candy cane, two scolymias, and...

that is some CLEAN glass! Can't wait until you make your "exciting" tank... ;)