Couple of Pics of My SPS
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NuclearReefs
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Check your RO/water with wages disolved...
JMBoehling
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Tested my reef and my make up bucket of supersaturated Kalk and 0.00 Phosphates according to Salifert. I am going to send this one to the Chemistry forum.
My algae issue comes from poor husbandry. I just got alot of live rock off of the bottom, and removed tons of Detritus... That my friend is what is causing my algae proble. Got a friend around the corner that uses the exact same things I do, and his reef is spotless.
Aqua Keepers
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Great pics, but your first one had me thinkin someone slipped something in my beer.
fishcraze2002
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very cool and interesting. Can't wait to see how your tank look when the corals grow out.
Where do you get those magnetic frag plugs from? thx.
Where do you get those magnetic frag plugs from? thx.
JMBoehling
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Oh BTW,, if you are still using Mrs Wages,, you might want to switch to regular Kalk,, thats where the phosphates are coming from that growing your algea.... just a FYI....... Mrs Wages isnt clean Calcium Hydroxide.. Too inconsisntant for the needs in this hobby IMO
I do not believe that pickling lime is a significant source of phosphate. Even if there were phosphate in it, it won't dissolve into limewater. Craig Bingman experimentally added phosphate to limewater and published the results many years ago. As expected, calcium phosphate precipitates out.
FWIW, I would not rely on a test kit to determine phosphate in limewater, the pH and alkalinity are too high to make many types of test work properly.
I do not believe that pickling lime is a significant source of phosphate. Even if there were phosphate in it, it won't dissolve into limewater. Craig Bingman experimentally added phosphate to limewater and published the results many years ago. As expected, calcium phosphate precipitates out.
FWIW, I would not rely on a test kit to determine phosphate in limewater, the pH and alkalinity are too high to make many types of test work properly.
Here's a typical analysis of food grade lime:
http://www.mississippilime.com/products/product.asp?dept_id=310&pf_id=31004&tabsetting=2
Even if all the P in it got dissolved into the limewater (it won't), that 30 ppm translates to only 0.1 ppm phosphate in the limewater. Adding two percent of the tank volume daily in limewater would boost phosphate by only 0.003 ppm.
http://www.mississippilime.com/products/product.asp?dept_id=310&pf_id=31004&tabsetting=2
Even if all the P in it got dissolved into the limewater (it won't), that 30 ppm translates to only 0.1 ppm phosphate in the limewater. Adding two percent of the tank volume daily in limewater would boost phosphate by only 0.003 ppm.
