Water Chemistry Frustration

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by marineman41

I never made it in to get my water tested at my LFS... however, I bought a new Hanna alkalinity reagent today and I made the switch to Red Sea blue bucket salt a couple weeks ago. After my normal 15 gallon water change every Sunday, my DKH was 8.2 and my PH was 8.3. I think the new filters on my RODI unit are helping with the diatoms as well.

I think that all my issues are due to tampering too much with the aquarium, trying to get the right number when I needed to step back and let things happen naturally.

Maybe it was a bad batch of reagent that brought on all my frustrations.

Thanks for listening and your feed back.

I made the switch from RS blue to Brightwell NeoMarine, I did the first 20g water change this weekend. I wish I had stayed Red Sea but will give the NeoMarine a fair try with the 2 buckets I have. If I don't see any benefit for the extra work I am going back to the Blue Bucket.