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Here’s what I’m using for Calcium if your interested. 2 cups of Prestone Driveway heat purchased from Lowe’s to a gallon of water. This is from Randy’s 2 part. Been doing for a year
So I’m kicking the idea around about buying something else for my Apex. I am torn between the Trident or a Dos. I’m sure I will eventually have both but what should I get first? Also my Neptune is only running a 40 gallon right now my thought is eventually I am going to convert my120 but is a...
You won’t be disappointed I love my Apex although I only have the El with a bunch of modules. Didn’t really need the salinity probe or orp probe. Saved me a few bucks to spend on other stuff. If you can’t find here, try R2R. I see them on there for a decent price. Another option is buy new and...
Copy that. Thanks.
Woohoo funny I’m saying this but I now have 5 ppm nitrates in my tank. Been a while since I had that so hoping this will show me some benefits. I will test tomorrow and see what my tank is consuming in a day
Amzazon? May have to pick up just in case I need since my phosphates already low. I had to revamp my nitrate dosing to more. My curremt solution that I dosed last night did nothing. I ended increasing to dose 45 ml potassium nitrate everyday. According to calculator if I use 5 tablespoons of...
I’ve heard a few rumors, one was he was offered another job but that was never confirmed. Like MadReefer stated I also heard he may be back in April. They lose him that section is doomed
How long does it take to see nitrates show up in your system with that dosing schedule. Also instead of me dosing 13 ml twice a day I can get away with just dosing 26 ml every day at once without doing any harm? My
System is only 50 gallons total
Yeah that calculator is saved on my home screen I ended up going with Randy Holmes Farley’s recipe since my system is smaller and I wanted a good starting point, but that calculator is perfect. I have ALOT of faith in his recipes. Been using his 2 part.
Shi! I’ll bet they were. What is your solution recipe using sodium nitrate. I am mixing 2 tablespoons of stump remover to 8.5 cups of water. I tested the solution and got a reading of 10ppm. Would yours ratio be similar to what I’m doing?
300ppm Dear god!!! Funny is I have done everything in my power to keep nitrates near zero now there stuck at zero no matter how much I feed I think my big ball of Chaeto also has something to do with that. I realize nitrates are all not that bad but with more nitrates comes algae problems I guess
Sure thing. Keep me posted how your dosing goes. I am dosing, now don’t laugh, Spectracide stump remover. I read this was being done years ago with success so fingers crossed. lol
I just started to dose potassium nitrate tonight. My nitrates have been at 0 so I figured I would try dosing 25 ml a day of a potassium nitrate solution. Hopefully I don’t hurt anything. My phosphates have been pretty steady at .02 I’m hoping the nitrate dosing doesn’t affect that