Got sent out of town for work, but im back home today. It has been 3 days since i last tested so i did another round of tests. Results are as follows
Ca 435
Alk 9.5
Mg 1400
Nitrate 10
Judging from this test i may be slightly over dosing alk and slightly under dosing ca. I am going to leave them alone for now and test again in 3 days to make sure i have a pattern before making changes. I would imagine those discrepancies could just be the accuracy tolerance of the kit itself.
I was pretty shocked to see my nitrates that high. I was dosing 6ml/day. I dropped that down to 1ml/day and will test again in 3 days to see where i am at. I suppose 10 isnt a bad number, but how quickly it got there is what suprised me. I would like to stay in the 5-10ppm range i think. Colors continue to get better. I am starting to see a slight amount of algae growth in the tank so i wil be keeping an eye on that.
Im trying to pay better attention to how oftenci need to clean my glass. It was last cleaned on monday, and i of course cleaned it today once i got home. It wasnt terrible but i like to keep it pretty clear, so judging from what it looked like i probably would have cleaned it yesterday had i been home. I guess going roughly 3 days with no visible growth on the glass isnt too bad. I know that doesnt mean a whole lot but im trying to keep a low maintenance tank so that is the only reason i am mentioning it.
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