Water Chemistry

I found a local shop which carries Bubble Magus products and managed to snag one of the new Bubble Magus 3 pump dosing units. I don't have experience with any of the Bubble Magus products, but the products look attractive enough. After a bit of reading I got the opinion that the company has been successful in providing reliable mid-range equipment at a lower cost point.

With my new tank up settling in after being transferred in early May, I began manually dosing DIY two-part. I love ...

Since the spawning event last weekend, my tank has been in recovery mode. The pink hammer coral is in the worst shape and I'm not sure about its survival. I've had it since it was a three headed frag more than 7 years ago. Here's what it's been looking like lately.





The Rose BTA has turned Rose. It was much deeper red until ...

Well, after trying everything less than a thermonuclear device I still have Maidens Hair in my tank. I've reduced the lighting, manually removed it, and reduced my feeding. I use Elos test kits and my Phosphates are 0, Nitrates 0, Nitrites 0??? I have read that you can have a tank full of algae and read 0 on Phosphates due to the algae consuming it all.

I have noticed my Chaeto seems to be getting smaller, it still looks ok nice and dark green. I'm not running any reactors, but am ...

Time for the monthly image of my reef. I did some tests recently.

Salinity - 1.026
Nitrate - 3ppm
Phosphate - .5ppm (dosed Phosphate Control to bring it back down again)
Alkalinity - 10ppm
Temperature - 80.1F
pH - 8.33
ORP - 323



The skimmer really didn't seem to be packed with air bubbles, and the venturi tubes were obstructed in the pumps' inlets. I took off the ...

Ok today I picked up a couple things that I have been neglecting to test in my system. I have never test phosphate until today I am going to begin testing with an ELOS expert line PO4 test kit and I am going to use reef results phosblaster super nuker liquid phosphate remover to remove the phosphate in my system.

the claim of this product is 1 point per treatment, the treatment is 10 ml per 50 gallons. I am going to be dosing 40 ML to treat 180 gallon system. the pictures taken ...