Folks, if you've recently upgraded or renewed your annual club membership but it's still not active, please reach out to the BOD or a moderator. The PayPal system has a slight bug which it doesn't allow it to activate the account on it's own.
Reef tanks with any reading of ammonia is probably what is throwing your hammer/frogspawn out of whack. The fact that you are showing ammonia is a sign something is off. Definitely test that again (to be sure your test kit is right) and make sure that reads zero. Ammonia will lead to nitrite...
unless you are full bore sps reef, i don't think you really need the extra trace elements. You should be able to recover any trace elements via wc for probably most reef tanks out there. In particular elements like iodine cannot be tested properly and overdosing can be lethal.
Just be wary...
wish you were closer up here matt! i'd love that lemonade$20/milli$15/stag$10...you travel up this way? if not i will have to yield and wish you best of luck on the sale!!!
ah it's not on the bottle itself, but the plastic sleeve that it is in. You probably threw that out not realizing. It's 30 drops per gallon is what it reads for dipping.
also you should have no ammonia detection...something is not right. Did you disturb the sand bed (if you have one)? are all the fish etc accted for?
my rule of thumb on dosing - if you can't test it, then you shouldn't be dosing it.
if fit were me i would immediately stop dosing all that stuff except any 2 part or items needed for alk/calc...and maybe mag..
http://www.marinedepot.com/reef-tank-parameters.html
Wait a sec, you're the tenants, and the landlord was foreclosed on? SO in essence you were paying the rent, but the landlord wasn't paying the mortgage?
or was the house in foreclosure and the landlord didn't tell you when you started renting?
16th is a tuesday...hmmm...medford...we had a...
hey i just noticed your heater is in the tank - are you ever concerned they wrap their tail on that? There's no room in the back of the nano to stick the heater?