Water Chemistry

Every three months, I refill the poly tank to the top with RO/DI water. This upright container is rated at 265g, and I have a small float installed to stop filling it at 250g. This provides enough room to add salt to the water.

For the past three years, I've used Sybon Reef Blend salt. It takes two cases of salt to mix up 250g at 1.026sg, so I got four cases of Fritz salt last year and am finally getting around to using it. Right before the cold front hit my area on Sunday, I ...

I am curious if Bluelife Phosphate Rx is a good means of controlling phosphate? I know a few of you guys on here dose this. Would it be a cost effective means?

Could it replace GFO?

Also I noticed they only sell it in 1 oz bottles. How many drops would be in a bottle?

Thanks guys.

So I've noticed since I restarted this tank which has been almost exactly a year, slow growth. And I am having trouble with LPS all of a sudden. Most of them are receding. I'm wondering if I am running too much light on my system?

50 3w Leds half royal blue half cool white
Blue is at 80% intensity
White 100% intensity
Run for 8 hrs a bit more if you count the ramp up and down.
3 inches off the surface with no optics


Here are also my parameters, ...

Right then.Float sensor stuck on due to little white snails.Ato thinks water is low in sump.Pumps ro water into system untill sump overflows dumping i"m guessing 20 gal onto basement floor.And the external skimmer pump.Then gfci for that room pops.No pwr to system for several hours.Thats what I discovered at 10:30 am.Scrambling all day doing damage control and cleanup.

Having run two previous successful tests on algae patches in my tank and having no negative results to date, I thought I share the process.

I used the following-

1 cap full of peroxide
1/2 tsp baking soda
Baby medicine eye dropper
Small plastic dosing cup
Turkey baster

Mix the peroxide and baking soda together in a small cup and mix until the baking soda is dissolved but viscous. Suck up into the eye dropper about 1ml of the mixture. ...