to test your levels? I have an Apex for the basics and I picked up a Red Sea CA/KH/ALK test kit. I'm curious what you guys use for? :read:

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Hello - Happy Monday! I'm posting a bunch of update pics. Most everyone is happy - except one head of the torch coral - it closed up a bit and hasn't fully reemerged. Yes, I still have grass, but you may notice I've taken a bunch out - so I did hear you. Notables: One shrimp is very...

my alk/dKH kit came in today...the LFS guy tested his tank..it came to 8dKH wich is good.. 8-12 is where it should be...mine........IS AT 4 !!!!!! i tested several times & both tanks..its 4....his tested the SAME way at 8...am i still doing something wrong ? 1. How did it get this Low!?!? 2...

my 37 gallon reef tank is growing alot of red slime at the bottom of the tank all over the rocks ive never had this problem in 4 years i bought redsmile remover and did a 10 persent water change after 3 days and it came back full force any one know the reason why and what can i do or use to stop...

I got a Calcium Fastest kit and its missing 2 tubes and not sure where they are right now. I need to test my calcium level. I use red sea test kits on everything else and they use the ml tubes. I will have to use the Red Sea tube with my Calcium Fastest kit. Does anyone have both and can you...

I been using a Red Sea test kits, not the individaul ones but the ones with all the test in it. I had a couple leak out and so I emailed red sea about it and you can't replace just certain bottles. So only way would be to buy the complete test kit. I think its crazy. I use to use fast test nd...

I did search and read what I could but still like everyones input. I am thinking on getting the corallife super skimmer for up to 65g for 99.99 at the fish pet place or something like that. The asm g is more expensive. What would you guys recommend? The cost on the one I founs is 70.00...

Hello For some reason I am having an extremely difficult time in raising my ph past 7.8 and 8.0. I am adding seachem's liquid maine buffer but it is not going up. Any suggestions???? And if so what product works well at bringing it up and staying at around 8.3? Thanks a mill, Mike

Hi I was wondering, how do you lower alkalinty. My ph is about 8.0-8.1 and my alkalinty is high. I put some liquid seachem buffer in which raises ph to 8.3 and stabilizes alkalinity. Does anyone know if this will work? Thanks!

Salinity is 1.022. How slowly should I bring it up to .025?

My friend and I both have a tank and we each have the same problem. Both of our calcium levels are low. Mine is reading 200 and my friends is reading 280. I don't know if it has to do with the alk at all. We both have been dripping kalk now for over a month. Our stony corals seem to be...

I tested a little bit on the ammonia side, and added a litttle Seachem Prime to the tank for the day. I plan on a 15 gal water change tonight and removing of my carbon in my phosban reactor. But I noticed my Zoo's closed up immediately after adding Prime. My question is: anyone had any...

I just purchased an orange suncoral about 3 weeks ago. I have been feeding it about 3 to 4 times a week with krill. it was a nice bright orange when purchased. i have it in the middle of my 75 gallon at the bottom of the tank. Water parameters are up to par. Nitrates can get up to 5 on red sea...

ok.. its 7 days since I got my live rock in my 125 gallon tank for curing.. I ran some tests tonight to see where things are.. Salinity: 1.025 ph: 8.0 alk: 5.53 meq/l KH: 15.5 dkh nitrate: 10 nitrite: 0.25 Ammonia: 0.50 Ca: 380 Temp: 80 not sure what to think of this.. first time using...

For those of you that have hard corals, you know that keeping the alkalinity, calcium, and magnessium levels up in your tanks can become an issue and get very costly, especially with a larger tank. In the past, the only options were aquarium additives or a kalk reactor. The additive costs add...

As most of you are aware, for the past year (since moving my tank) I have been plagued with fish and invert deaths, hair algae and occasionally non-thriving corals. I was always perplexed because I would have my water tested and pH would be 8.1-8.2, nitrate/nitrite/ammonia were 0, I was doing...

Greetings All, I am starting a new thread to follow along with my new 29g SW setup. I have a couple of years experience with FW tanks, but this will be my first SW tank. After researching for the past 2 months I feel fairly confident in knowing the basics and have made friends who...

"Hello Everyone, NFMAS will be putting together an impromptu meeting during the lag time before our next scheduled meeting in Jan. 07. The Place, Date & Time of this meeting is to be announced. This meeting will be a workshop to openly discuss and to participate in, all aspects of water...