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  1. Blue Life Phosphate RX dosing?

    Just to clarify heres the directions on the container,


    Six drops of Phosphate Control will lower your phosphate by 1 ppm (mg/L) for every 10 gallons (37.9 liters) of water.


    Does that mean 1.0 ppm or .01ppm?


    My phos is testing at .04 on Hanna and I was going to dose 72 drops.

    My tank volume minus rocks and sand is 120 gallons, so 6 drops X 12 = 72 drops to drop my phos by .01?
  2. Topdown shots for Day 210

    On 6/10, the tank turned seven months old. Which means fresh pictures, right? I've been doing some necessary maintenance to clean up the system because I prefer it that way, but also because Gary Parr is coming to visit and asked specifically to photograph my reef. All the Vortechs are clean, the viewing panels are spotless, the overflow scraped down to the glossy black acrylic once more. The reef is ready.

    I see blue polyps in this montipora, and some interesting rootlike veins. ...
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