macclellan
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Just buy a bag of salt and RO/DI water ($.50 gallon) and mix it yourself. Much cheaper.
Help! Where's my Puffer?
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Yeah, I will probably switch to that for a while. I've got some salt that I need to use, but with no RO unit, I'm not going to put tap water in the tank.
What do you find is a good price for salt, per gallon of water it makes? What brand do you reccomend for reef tanks?
In case you haven't put the name here on the forum with the face, I was the one that came in for the water today, and I was telling you about the trip i took to China.
Oh, and I forgot to ask you...what all did you test the water for? I know the Calcium and Alkalinity, but anything else?
By the time I got home at about 8pm, about 90% of that brain coral I told you about, is dead. Flesh is hanging off of it. It one day, it went from about 10% dead to 90%. I don't think it's going to make it.
thanks for the help!
dang, that sucks. been there! and yeah, by morning, probably won't be anything left.
I wish I knew what happened to it. yesterday, the low places were swelled up flush with the ridges, and today it's dead.
ZombieFlesh
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Engloid, in the testing I did on your tank I came back with approx 2ppm Nitrates and a pH of approx 7.9. I am not sure if Russ tested for anything else.
Sorry to hear about the brain.....from what I remember from your water parameters everything was pretty peachy.
Sorry to hear about the brain.....from what I remember from your water parameters everything was pretty peachy.
Yeah, the brain is just a little bit of dead flesh still clinging onto the skeleton. I may pull the rock out and break it off. It is just an ugly white reminder now.
I guess 2ppm of nitrates isn't too bad for going 2 weeks without a water change...and I had been feeding pretty heavily.
It did take me all of 5 gallons of the straight RO water to bring the salinity back down. All in all, I probably changed out 7 gallons in the 29 gallon tank. I typically have very strong bacteria colonies in my tanks though. I guess with the abuse I dish out, they become pretty tough. :fun2:
macclellan
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This thread has gone on far too long without pictures.
Where's Waldo?
Where's Waldo?
Quiet Tempest
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Found him!
