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![]() I'm a cheapskate so I use Randy Holmes-Farley's DIY formulae.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/rhf/index.php |
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![]() Myka . . . I tried mixing with just RO last night, and I got the same flakes. I was hoping you were right about what was going on and that it was precipitation. I think I'm just not getting it mixed properly.
How much of this stuff can be mixed up into the top up water at once? Could one do a week's worth with no illeffects or degradation? |
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![]() Shelley, it takes a lot of mixing to mix up alkalinity supplements. There wouldn't be much calcium in a cup of tank water, so the extra flakes would not be particularly noticeable in with the alkalinity supplement. I mix up 2 gallons of alkalinity solution at a time for my dosers. I store that in a sealed container and use that to add to the actual dosing vessel once a week. The 2 gallons lasts a few months I think.
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![]() Right now, I'm trying to sell off my corals but they are too big and I want reasonable money for them. If the formula didn't work they wouldn't get that big I would guess.
I buy the baking soda at the grocery store and the calcium and mag chloride I get from a chemical company here in London. The epsom I get at Walmart. I buy mostly 25 kilo bags as I make my own salt water as well that I mix half and half with I.O. I think a lot of people buy from Bulk Reef. |