Dear all. Wisdom requested for all experience reefers.
I have kept a 35 gallon reef tank for 6+ years but never tested any parameters. Never understood / unable to manage any of it anyways. The only thing I test is salinity with a Refratometer during weekly water changes. Otherwise, everything was done by trial and error.
I consider my tank pretty successful because I have kept 1 hammer, 1 frog spawn, 1 Leather, 1 pollop, and some others for all these years and they have been multiplying and growing to the point i am running out of space.
Recently I have jump the gun and went ahead to buy and Neptune Apex System that comes with 4 probes. All of a sudden being bombarded by all of these conflicting parameters.
I am looking for wisdom of what is considered normal / required parameters for the following:
1. Conductivity / Salinity in ppt measurement
2. pH probe
3. ORP probe
4. Temperature prob
Also, input for any other parameters of Nitrate, Nitrite, and etc is greatly appreciated. :fish1:
I have kept a 35 gallon reef tank for 6+ years but never tested any parameters. Never understood / unable to manage any of it anyways. The only thing I test is salinity with a Refratometer during weekly water changes. Otherwise, everything was done by trial and error.
I consider my tank pretty successful because I have kept 1 hammer, 1 frog spawn, 1 Leather, 1 pollop, and some others for all these years and they have been multiplying and growing to the point i am running out of space.
Recently I have jump the gun and went ahead to buy and Neptune Apex System that comes with 4 probes. All of a sudden being bombarded by all of these conflicting parameters.
I am looking for wisdom of what is considered normal / required parameters for the following:
1. Conductivity / Salinity in ppt measurement
2. pH probe
3. ORP probe
4. Temperature prob
Also, input for any other parameters of Nitrate, Nitrite, and etc is greatly appreciated. :fish1:
