suphew Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Magnesium 1.42 Calcium 2.31 Potassium 3.9 Sodium 8.9 Would be interesting to know what these equate to in pmm?? anyone?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 MG/Litre is the same as ppm, parts per million, same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Chloride is not much of a worry, the biggy you are trying to avoid is phosphate. Some bottled water is simply carbon treated and will still contain phosphate, and some spring water will contain it. Any water treated with RO will have low / zero phosphate. From the Pure Dew website:http://www.puredew.co.nz/ We use a combination of the latest in purification processes: Steam Distillation, Reverse Osmosis, Filtration, Ozonation This makes our water - At least 100 times more pure than Mineral or Spring water: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PENEJANE Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Ok the rock is starting to get quite brown. Is this expected? Have I done something wrong? or is this when I look at adding a clean up crew? With a clean up crew where would I get them and what would I be looking for to put in the 7gallon tank? Don't have them available at the LFS down here (snails, hermit crabs) so what do I do in this situation? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Diatoms, it happens to all of us, will clear up by itself in a few weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PENEJANE Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 ahhhh ok. So I can expect it to get a little worse then it will start to come right on its own. I have noticed little orange/red fury worms as well as more of these anemone looking things. Have seen a little light purple cichion (sp) thingys with the domed over shell. Look like little moving mountians haha. Also seen little orange tenticles comming out of a tube on the side of a piece of rock. I got to see about getting my friends camera so I can try and take some macro pics of all this. With this all happening is it all a good thing? Cheers again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Some people think its crazy to stare at a rock for hours on end :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 We've had, in order of appearance: -Brownish ginger stuff all over the rock and aragonite sand. -Dark red/magenta almost black slightly hairy stuff on the rock, complete with bubbles that got to 3mm ish before they floated to the surface (not Valonia). Mostly on one rock, and not the other for some strange reason. -Green wirery hair algae -Bright green very low growing slimey looking stuff, but only on top surfaces exposed to the light. Things to look foreward to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Brownish ginger stuff all over the rock and aragonite sand. probably diatoms Dark red/magenta almost black slightly hairy stuff on the rock, complete with bubbles that got to 3mm ish before they floated to the surface (not Valonia). Mostly on one rock, and not the other for some strange reason. ? cyano? -Green wirery hair algae bryopsis -Bright green very low growing slimey looking stuff, but only on top surfaces exposed to the light. green hair algae we've probably ALL had them all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PENEJANE Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 HAHAHAH true true. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't doing something wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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