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Water Quality Log

I thought I would keep an active log to share with everyone concerning my water quality test. It will be updated weekly. The water changes that I conduct are minuscule (approximately 0.25 gallon per week). I personally don't agree with extremely large water changes because I feel that just when you have all your parameters correct then BAM water change throws everything off. This is just my thinking.

Aquarium Water Quality Testing Results.
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011

1. Ammonia (Recommended Range: 0ppm): 0ppm
2. Nitrite (Recommended Range: 0ppm): 0ppm
3. Nitrate (Recommended Range: 0ppm): 20ppm (This reading was 40ppm last week and is most likely due to the fact that my aquarium is still cycling the live rock.)
4. pH (Recommended Range: 8.2pH - 8.4pH): 7.8pH (This reading is most likely due to the fact that my aquarium is still cycling the live rock.)
5. Alkalinity (Recommended Range: 8dKH - 12 dKH): 9dKH
6. Calcium (Recommended Range: 400ppm - 500ppm): 440ppm
7. Phosphate (Recommended Range: 0 ppm): 0.5ppm (This reading was 2ppm last week so I am going to attribute this to the Microbacter7 & Reef BioFuel Dosing.)