120 gallon journal - picture Feb 27 - Page 2

kwirky · #1 01-09-2007, 08:17 AM

I'm completely sick of dosing kalk. I don't have the means to hook my RO system to the tank, so a kalk mixer is out of the question

i've ordered some calcium chloride, and i'm going to try two part dosing. my calcium's slowly worked it's way down to 320ppm, even though i'm dosing 6 tps of kalk every night like clockwork. it's getting expensive, too, buying kalk from the LFS.

the two part system will give me more control to balance out my kH and calcium, and if it works, i'll look into some dosing pumps to do it for me.

I'll have about 9 lbs of calcium chloride in about a week, ordered from littlesilvermax, and we'll see how it all goes

I'm gonna have fun baking baking soda (sorry, geeky word pun there lol)

kwirky · #2 01-27-2007, 05:40 AM

so i fragged some of the branches off the leather coral. 10 in total. I'll see how they do in the next week.

Also got some chaeto for the fuge. We'll see how that does. It's in the slow moving area of the fuge.

And I bought some kent turbo calcium to fix my calcium/alkalinity imbalance. littlesilvermax has some calcium chloride on the way, so thankfully it won't be expensive to maintain. I'm in the process of baking baking soda ATM.

Oh, and I got an urchin, and I wish I got more, it's so damned cool

kwirky · #3 02-21-2007, 01:47 AM

my calcium is under control now. been dosing to part mix every evening. 30ml each night. my coraline is coming back, and my frogspawn has shown to benefit from it.

I added two sixline wrasses today. very small. quite cute, really, and I think their roudy nature will be ok with the cinamon clowns and the royal gramma already in there (which are at least twice their size, and will be much larger when all are fully grown).

now to solve my coral coloration issues.