Recent content by Soryu

Ignore the GBA, it's been a long fight to get it under control. But seriously, this is out of hand.

My rainbow bubble tip anemone won't quit splitting. Is there a trick to getting these things off their rocks without killing them?

Mine keep eating my peppermint shrimp, you'll be fine I'm sure.

I can't seem to edit my posts, but to clarify, my original salt mix was Aquavitro Salinity, not to be confused with actual tank parameters of salinity.

Reef Crystals scored the highest on their tests, I believe after several days their Alk/Calcium levels slightly elevated. Now salinity will increase over time if evaporation happens. When I was using salinity if I waited 48 hours or more my values cratered. I would see from 11dkh/430Ca to...

BRS recently did a study that found a lot of the top brands of salt mix don't maintain parameters for very long. Oddly enough Reef Crystals was just about the best for long term storage. I find that Salinity precipitates so fast that I have to use it within a 6 hour window. It might be...

+1 for the Gimp.

I verbally expressed my dissatisfaction with their foolishness. Making screen tops tonight to prevent any more "accidents"

I'm into week 6 of Vibrant treating, GHA is gone but the nitrate spike caused a Cyano outbreak. I would certainly monitor parameters if the GHA is overgrown, but I couldn't be happier with this product. The GHA is gone and now I'm just doing cleanup on my bubble algea trying to reduce and destroy.

Okay, I have some very irresponsible people living with me and I returned home from a work trip to find a silica packet floating in my tank. While I know this is probably relatively benign since I know some sea life requires silica but is there anything I should be concerned with here?

RSCP, probably switching to IO soon though. I did some testing and found that RSCP mixed where I wanted it to after 24 hours but I'll still testing and adjusting before doing the water change. Might as well just go IO if I'm still doing the adjustments.

Occasionally I find that user error is my biggest issue. Dirty equipment, incorrect sample sizes, ect. Generally speaking the only test I have real issues correlating to other test methods is the Hanna Calcium tester but that's because of the sample size. I've switched to a syringe instead of...

Due to my work lifestyle I had a massive GHA outbreak. I started using Vibrant reef and dosing once a week. Works like a charm, we're about 6 weeks in and all of the GHA died but this caused a Cyano outbreak due to high nutrients. Now I'm dosing vinegar and doing 30% weekly water changes with...

As an update to this topic and after testing several batches of IO and RSCP I haven't had the same issues I had with salinity. While I was able to minimize the amount of fluctuation I get with salinity with by mixing the salt bucket before using it. This allowed me to get some short term...