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View Poll Results: Test new water? | |||
yes | 24 | 26.09% | |
no | 43 | 46.74% | |
sometimes | 25 | 27.17% | |
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Oh so you calculate what batches from that bucket require. You add to the tank and let it settle. Then you make sure the TANK is good to go and if not dose directly to it?
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I test salinity, PH and temp for my water change water. the others are kinda mute point unless you are doing a masive waterchange like ovewr 50%. you can adjust Mg, Alk, and Ca once in the tank.
my reasoning for this is if you do a 10% water change like most do weekly, then if you tank is 400Ca, 11 Alk, and 1400mg and you add 10% new water that is 300 Ca, 10 Alk and 1200mg then you are going to end up with a tank level of aprox 390Ca, 10.9 Alk and 1370-1380Mg nothing that realy scares me and minor to corect in the tank. but if your PH and salinity are out while they will only afect the tank a little they are ones that your live stock are more supseptible to changes in. Steve
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yep thats pretty much it. I dose Kalk with my ato and have it pretty much dialed in. After i have done my WC then I just use Randys 2 part to tweek my levels. |
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That is pretty much how I do it too.
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Why wait till it's in the tank? I know my parameters are dead on at Ca 420, Alk 7.5, Mg 1300, so I adjust the WC water before it goes in - why have swings, even if they are small when you can avoid them by doing the same thing in the bucket first.
SG I forget stupidly to check surprisingly often though....like today for example. I just remembered 12 hours after the fact that I forgot to check ONLY the sg. Stupid. |
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Ah, makes sense. But if you have larger changes to make, I'd certainly do it in the mixing vessel first. My salt required me to adjust the Ca (separate additive), so it has to be done out of the tank first.
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I just realized I haven't tested pH in a VERY long time... I think my testing schedule needs an overhaul.
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Usually don't but I found the calcium in my tank to be low (320ppm) so I tested my water change mix and turns out my current bucket of instant ocean is responsible for the drop because it also read 320ppm.
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