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Old 09-22-2014, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by reefwars View Post
what's the drop daily?

Chloride and sulphate mix I assume?

How and when do you dose , a 100ppm even monthly is very high


Salinity is correct and calibrated?

What Salt mix?

me?

My mag dropped to 1240ppm this morning an hour after lights on. I'm just hand dosing right now to get things back into line (1300-1350ppm) as my tank works through this surge. Then it will be back to the dosing pump and daily "top offs". It will probably take me 4-10 days, of hand dosing, to get it back where I like it.

The usual daily drop is less than 10ppm, but over 5ppm, if we assume test kits to be THAT accurate. This "growth" spurt isn't usual in that the draw is higher, but it's not wholly unexpected as it does seem to happen, the spurts, with a certain regularity.

My clams have some giant new ridges that developed significantly over the last week. (Finally, they haven't done much growing since July) There is quite a bit of new coraline algae on the rocks and glass in my refugium since last weekend, my LPS and somke SPS are growing, the LPS much faster than SPS.
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