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    Potassium

    Can you get a price?
  2. if you have stock, you will need to do a 75% water change NOW. THIS WILL NOT HURT ANYTHING, SO LONG AS YOU MATCH THE OLD WATER AS BELOW. Make sure the temp and PH and salinity is identical before you chuck it in. If no stock leave for a few more weeks.
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    Potassium

    No. But Watercare services in Auckland can test for you at around $70.00 bucks a shot.
  4. cracker

    Potassium

    Nice wasp...Very true, I do use NSW. ASW will be different. If anyone wants to try some, I can get a very pure grade at very good prices per kilo. You will have to watch the amount used as as I said, test controling is very difficult.
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    Potassium

    It may play a prt in colour, but the expense of testing makes it very difficult as a control.
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    Potassium

    Nz natural seawater contains around 380ppm which is adequate enough for marine tanks. Potassium doesnt play a huge part in reef tanks as I have done tests on this myself. Testing costs around $60.00 each time through a lab.
  7. Yeah chim...woteva!! www.snap-it.co.nz Not 100% complete, but nearly there.......You need hispeed connection for this site.
  8. Cheers dude. Its an interesting one!
  9. Yeah, All good, Things getting pretty exciting with the new product. Selling before I should be, Cant keep up at this early stage. Gonna be worse when we hit the flower show! Tank great too!
  10. Arent you a salty? You should ask us here in the saltwater members. You'll get better results and a variety of answers. The freshies use differnt methods!!
  11. Dont dose more than 1ml per 100 litres per day. Not worth the risk.
  12. Just passes through whilst transfering.
  13. I do the same thing Chim, Just leave it dead in a dark environment until you need it. (Ive had mine sitting for up to 3 months. No probs. I run mine through an activated carbon filter before it hits the tank though.
  14. You wanna be careful with that stuff dude, Its what they use to feed cows with. Something to do with milk assistance and grass issues. Its not very pure at all. Watch for algae and diatoms... If you get some stop dosing. If you want some pure stuff, we can send to you or I think Ira has organised it before.
  15. My algae had reduced and my vcolours have paled a touch..... Its interesting...
  16. Not sure about that one..... I am testing this theory at the moment. I actually believe you can.
  17. Once at these levels, adjust the reactor to suit. If it wont keep up, you may want to get a better one, or just stop using it and dosing chlorides and Baking soda, (Or similar) manually. This is what I do once a week for MG and Ca. and twice weekly for KH. Hope this helps.
  18. To have one chemical reflecting the other should only happen at levels that are way off the recopmmended levels. If you have MG of say 1200 and Ca of 380, the addition of one or the other wont drag the other one. Large differences like 1100 mg or say 340 ca may effect the other and bugger up the levels. The best way to fix this is to adjust the Magnesium first by no more than 75ppm per day until at 1350. Then adjust Ca at no more than 50 ppm per day and then the KH to around 8-12, (depending on where you like it), by no more than 3 per day. This needs to be done in this order unless the KH is under 3kh, then adust this to about 7kh before you play with the MG.
  19. Providing you do reasonably decent sized water changes, you should need to be worrying about Epsom salts. You can raise MG by using either epsom salts, (Magnesium sulphate), or Magnesium Chloride. The natural level of the ocean is 60-70% chloride and the rest Ca, Mg, Str etc, etc. So this means that MG Chloride is the best to add. By ensuring decent size water changes, thye build up of extra chlorides is minimal. I have heaps of SPS which have a high demand for MG and I only consume 3 cups of MG per week for 1400 litres. Its a reasonable amount, but by buying 25kg bags at $5.00 bucks a kilo its pretty darn cheap. Last me for months even with my size tank.
  20. All good dude, The Wife even dosed it so my Ca was alraedy 440 and Mg 1360!! She rocks!
  21. Sorry to hear that. This is something I expect in my tank. I am just waiting for the day. I have a Condy, one of the stickiest anemones around. It is big and my fish swim dangerously close. It is nature and only a matter of time. In fact I have just lost one of my large Pink skunk clowns. I found him dead on the bottom not far from the Condy. He may have been stung.
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