my new cap eaten?

[Jennifier615]

I have a question for you Mario, every time there is a deficiency or an overage in an analyte in your tank is your solution do a water change? I wondered cause I don't know if it occured to you, but in a way you are just wasting salt mix. Think about it: If your Ca and Alk are low say Ca=300.....and you change say 15gallons.......you take out 15 gallons of 130ppm Ca deficient water and you are replacing it with 15 gallons of Ca even water......you are only raising your Ca 35.1 ppm for the entire volume of water. If you then have a bio-load that is degrading your Ca at a sufficient rate you will have used this extra 35.1ppm in no time and be back in the same situation you were just in. Now the second part of the equasion......If you were to mix water in a concentration that would raise your Ca to the level it needed to be you would be in a state of hypersalinity and you would crash your tank. I know I probably don't need to sell you on the idea of dosing, but it is the easiest and most cost efficient way to not overuse unneeded salt doing water changes that are essentially doing nothing and bringing levels to requirement without worry of losing your corals.


This is the manner in which I understood dosing from a Chemistry stand-point if anybody else has any methodologies that make sense alot easier I would love to hear them as well.

 

[cee]

Can't tell from the pics but another possibilty is monti eating nudis. They love caps. Check a few hours after the lights are out and look for small fuzzy white slugs, about the 1/4" or so. You won't see them during the day.

 

[nightfire]

I have a question for you Mario, every time there is a deficiency or an overage in an analyte in your tank is your solution do a water change? I wondered cause I don't know if it occured to you, but in a way you are just wasting salt mix. Think about it: If your Ca and Alk are low say Ca=300.....and you change say 15gallons.......you take out 15 gallons of 130ppm Ca deficient water and you are replacing it with 15 gallons of Ca even water......you are only raising your Ca 35.1 ppm for the entire volume of water. If you then have a bio-load that is degrading your Ca at a sufficient rate you will have used this extra 35.1ppm in no time and be back in the same situation you were just in. Now the second part of the equasion......If you were to mix water in a concentration that would raise your Ca to the level it needed to be you would be in a state of hypersalinity and you would crash your tank. I know I probably don't need to sell you on the idea of dosing, but it is the easiest and most cost efficient way to not overuse unneeded salt doing water changes that are essentially doing nothing and bringing levels to requirement without worry of losing your corals.


This is the manner in which I understood dosing from a Chemistry stand-point if anybody else has any methodologies that make sense alot easier I would love to hear them as well.

jen i understand everything you said and ya are correct...i only ment that i was due for my weekly water change is all...trust me i know doing "extra" water changes in order to try and raise levels is not the way to do it.....having the lps and few sps that i do have though has lowered my levels faster then i thought it would have....so ill be hunting 2 part soon

 

[nightfire]

Can't tell from the pics but another possibilty is monti eating nudis. They love caps. Check a few hours after the lights are out and look for small fuzzy white slugs, about the 1/4" or so. You won't see them during the day.

if it were nudis and not my levels...which im sure it was my levelss....wount the same nudis also go after my digi too and not just the new cap?

 

[Jennifier615]

Okay. Just making sure its a concept that is sometimes hard for people to get. I want to see you be successful.

Please excuse my mad typing skills while using my ANDROID tapatalk peeps!

 

[nightfire]

Okay. Just making sure its a concept that is sometimes hard for people to get. I want to see you be successful.

Please excuse my mad typing skills while using my ANDROID tapatalk peeps!

thanks jen....yea im like ya,i know some dont understand percentages and i try to help if i can.......funny how back in school i always thought math was a waste and since then i've looked for the percentages in tons of things lol yea im kinda nerdy......yea...comics too.....r/c cars too......tuning real cars too....yea yea and also a huge 69 boss fan what of it lol......dang i made my self look like a nerd here :smurf:

 

[Jennifier615]

We are all nerds or crazy in this hobby we've all gotten that look from people on the outside I got one the other day from my insurance agent when I upped my homeowners to cover the replacement cost of my tank.

 

[cee]

if it were nudis and not my levels...which im sure it was my levelss....wount the same nudis also go after my digi too and not just the new cap?

From what I've read they attack caps and encrusting primarily. With such a small frag to "eat" you wouldn't likely have many.

 

[nightfire]

We are all nerds or crazy in this hobby we've all gotten that look from people on the outside I got one the other day from my insurance agent when I upped my homeowners to cover the replacement cost of my tank.

lol funny but good idea if ya have a good amount of money invested lol

 

[Jennifier615]

Yeah when you state you need 15k or so to "replace" your fishtank you get the crazy stare.