Pat's 120

[pterfloth]

End of Week 8

Test Results
Phosphate: 0.00 ppm
Nitrate: <2 ppm
Calcium: 430 ppm
Magnesium: 1450 ppm
Alkalinity: 135 ppm
Salinity: 1.025

Dosing
UltraBio: 4 drops/day
UltraMinS: 2 ml/day
UltraBak: 2 ml/day
1 liter UltraLith
Cost/day: $1.19

UltraPowerTrace #1: 2 ml/day
UltraPowerTrace #2: 4 ml/day
UltraPowerTrace #1: 4 ml/day
UltraPowerTrace #1: 1.6 ml/day
Cost/day: $0.68

Ultra Amin Special Mixture: 4 ml/day
Cost/Day: $0.40

Update
I have been adding the PowerTrace additives for 3 weeks. Although SPS colors improved a bit in the first week, not much changed after that. Maybe the purple acros were more purple, maybe the blue acros more blue.

Since my pink Stylo's were still fading, I resumed the additon of 4 ml/day of the Ultra Amin Special Mixture amino acids last week. The results were immediate. I am back to the neon pinks I had when I was doing this product before.

Phosphate and nitrate levels remain very low. Even more important than the test results is the total absence of cyano and hair algae. For me, this is a big plus. I have a lot of fish, they are all fat and happy and now I can keep my SPS under ideal conditions too.

I have removed my 2 anenomes, moved some SPS around and added 3 very nice new colonies, in addition to several browned out pieces from OA's 2 for 1 sale. They are all beginning to color up nicely.

I replaced 1/2 of the UltraLith 2 weeks ago, kept up my dosing regime to re-seed to the zeolite and now I am about to cut back on the UltraBio and UltraBak as recommended.

Here's a FTS from today.