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Brett - what is Mg measuring now?
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aquaph8
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PaPa_Johnny
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iwishtofish
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Haha, craziness! 
I'm glad to hear that things are looking much better, Brett. I'm eager for the next chapter in your saga!
I'm glad to hear that things are looking much better, Brett. I'm eager for the next chapter in your saga!
drummereef
Team RC
I'm not sure to be honest Mike. I plan on ordering a new test kit with the Mag this week. I'm assuming it's dropped quite a bit since I haven't been doing water changes nor supplementing mag at all. I'll let you know...
:lol: Tough crowd.
Haha, craziness!
I'm glad to hear that things are looking much better, Brett. I'm eager for the next chapter in your saga!
Yeah, let's hope that's the last of the cycles for a looong time. If time allows, more fish will be in my near future.
gary faulkner
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Fish? Did I hear someone say fish?
drummereef
Team RC
:lol: Yeah I've been so extremely busy the last couple weeks but hopefully will have time to get an order placed with Blue Zoo sometime. Now that the weather is hot here in the midwest, what's too hot to have fish shipped safely??
We are averaging in the mid 90's...
gary faulkner
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They can use cooler packs and are usually pretty good about waiting if it is too hot. I would prefer the 80s but we might not see that for a while.
HTH
HTH
drummereef
Team RC
drummereef
Team RC
Just placed an order for 2x gallons of Tech-M and a new Salifert Mag kit. Current Mag level from my old kit is ~1250 (tested today). I estimate it will take a gallon to get it up to ~1600 then maintain for a few days with the second reserve gallon. Then I should have plenty left over to maintain normal levels after that.
cromedogg33
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Me too :spin2:
I get to battle bryopsis already. Should be fun times.... :headwallblue:
psteeleb
Team RC
Brett and Josh
I started some discussion based on some collected evidence that it may not be the total Mg reading that you need to be looking for rather a percentage of TechM (or some impurity in TechM) as part of your total Mg count. The discussion threads have gained some support and additional discussion from several of our chem E experts here on RC.
I'll see if I can find the links later tonight but basically I found raising your Mg level by 12-15% using TechM (or another but forgot) may be what you need to shoot for, rather then a specific level like 1600.
In Brett's case letting his Mg level drop to 1250 you may only need to elevate your Mg to around 1450 to get results. I don't recall collecting any data points starting with 1250 but other data points starting from 1350 and up seem to support this.
I started some discussion based on some collected evidence that it may not be the total Mg reading that you need to be looking for rather a percentage of TechM (or some impurity in TechM) as part of your total Mg count. The discussion threads have gained some support and additional discussion from several of our chem E experts here on RC.
I'll see if I can find the links later tonight but basically I found raising your Mg level by 12-15% using TechM (or another but forgot) may be what you need to shoot for, rather then a specific level like 1600.
In Brett's case letting his Mg level drop to 1250 you may only need to elevate your Mg to around 1450 to get results. I don't recall collecting any data points starting with 1250 but other data points starting from 1350 and up seem to support this.
drummereef
Team RC
Good luck with that! Sounds like you are ready for battle.
Very interesting Pete. I will bring my Mag up to ~1450 and hold it there for a while and see what happens. What's a safe rate to raise mag levels in a 24 hour period?
drummereef
Team RC
UPDATE:
You ask and you shall receive. FTS for June 2011
You ask and you shall receive.
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gary faulkner
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What's a safe rate to raise mag levels in a 24 hour period?
Check out the Reef calculator on here.
Check out the Reef calculator on here.
aquaph8
Love The Fish
I try to go no more than 100 ppm per day.
PaPa_Johnny
Premium Member
Brett, there are more threads out there that I have read about fighting bryopsis with Tech-M, here is one I found really quick this morning. I thought I remembered the number but wasn't sure. You didn't give Randy and Bertoni enough info about why you wanted to raise mag on your thread 
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http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2027344
And I don't mean to sound like a critical S.A. if I do doh, just trying to pass on info.
.http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2027344
And I don't mean to sound like a critical S.A. if I do doh, just trying to pass on info.
psteeleb
Team RC
here is the link where I was forwarding some information to Randy on the subject. Since then, several people seem to be in support of the thoughts initiated here and several new threads since then. My original thoughts on this were posted in the "finaly a solution to bryopsis" thread, I copied and pasted the original one in this newer thread for Randy's thoughts on the subject. Cliff jumps in a couple posts later further supporting the TechM impurity concentration as being the likely algea killer.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=18763714#post18763714
At most I raised the Mg 150 per day, but I also lost a bunch of my snails in the process.
