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  1. Calcium question for Noob

    I don’t think the Ca is 0 it will be low if it’s a new tank because the live rock will suck some up. Ca is the base building block in stony corals with out it they wont grow. You will also want to keep the dkh, Magnesium and Strontium up as well, invest in at least those test kits. I used...
  2. Bow front - drastic mod

    What are you talking about distortion on a bow front? I have a 72 gallon bow and the only distortion is looking threw the front and side glass at the same time which you have on all tanks more so on acrylic’s that a bent to a 90° angle or looking from one side of the tank to the other side of...
  3. Bow front - drastic mod

    What are you talking about distortion on a bow front? I have a 72 gallon bow and the only distortion is looking threw the front and side glass at the same time which you have on all tanks more so on acrylic’s that a bent to a 90° angle or looking from one side of the tank to the other side of...
  4. water movement and 72 bowfront

    I to have a 72 gallon bow front a 10 gallon sump with a mag 7 upgrading to a mag 9.5. I also have a wavemaster pro with 2 maxi-jet 1200 and 2 maxi-jet 900.
  5. Some good out of a bad experience.

    I set up a 50 gallon reef in 2001 and had a Rio melt down in the Fall of 2003 and this is what came out of it. http://home.surewest.net/pjhoehn/72bow
  6. Calcium to High

    I didnt buy the test kit from the same store as a matter of fact the first test kits were bought one online the second LFS and a few months later the last kit from an other LFS. I agree Salifert test are quite reliable as my change water tests in spec. 375-400 so that tells me a few things the...
  7. Calcium to High

    I didnt buy the test kit from the same store as a matter of fact the first test kits were bought one online the second LFS and a few months later the last kit from an other LFS. I agree Salifert test are quite reliable as my change water tests in spec. 375-400 so that tells me a few things the...
  8. Calcium to High

    That's what I thought also I was using an old Salifert Calcium test and followed it up with same age Strontium test and went out and bought a new Salifert calcium test kit all read about the same. My reading of 1000 is an assumption because the test kits don’t go that high.
  9. Calcium to High

    This time last year I was combating an algae problem! I was doing w/c every few days and cut my photo period back water chemistry was fine Calcium in the low to mid 400 the tank was starting to come around and I was beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel and I had a Rio pump nuke...

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