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If you'd like to post your observations in the vodka dosing table thread, I think other people would be interested, and it'd be easier to find them.
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Thank you!
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You are welcome; my pleasure.
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Wow, this is testing my memory. This was my feeding routine in January and we had approx. 120 gallons. Now we are up to 180 gallons. I have revamped my feeding and vinegar due to the fact that natural seawater we were using spiked our nitrates to over .45ppm.
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Not being able to use natural seawater (red tide south west Fla) has caused my problems.
My tap water is 9.5 PH so adding my kalkwasser to my top off created a total ph of 12.0 in my top off tank... My display tank ph crept up to 8.9 during the middle of the day so I started dosing 8 - 12 ml of vinegar daily (65 gal tank) to get the ph down. So far so good and I have not done any water changes in 3 to 4 months. I don't plan to increase the vinegar dosage. I did finally buy some reef crystals so I'll do a 5 gal change this weekend until I get back to 15 gallon changes.
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A full-strength Kalk solution should be at about pH 12.5 or so. Tap water can come at a high pH to reduce corrosion, so those numbers seem plausible for pH.
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I thought he was referring to the pH of the display tank. Sorry about the confusion.
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A few days ago I discovered that my Ca was at 240!!! I validated the result by taking a water sample to my LFS and also by testing my other tank and it is confirmed that my Ca was super low.
My fault to stop doing periodic Ca tests because I felt that it was pretty stable with my Kalk dosing (ATO reservoir), so I decided to test only Alk, Nitrate, Phosphate, Salinity, Mg and sometimes K. Bad decision! I'm now slowly correcting it by manually dosing Red Sea Calcium+ stock solution (1ml raises 2ppm Ca in 25g). Ca is now at 340ppm. Now the question: Why? I'm maintaining my Alk at around 7.8 - 8.1 dKH with Kalk (via ATO RO water). My understanding is that normally, with this mechanism of Kalk, Ca and KH should remain leveled. If I'm monitoring my KH closely, how come Ca went so low and in a different direction? I understand that it would be more common for Ca to go up and not KH with Kalk. Perhaps the Vinegar dosing plays a factor here? Can you help me understand what's doing on? Will I have to adjust something? Or will I just have to start dosing Ca separately of the Kalk to compensate for the Ca-KH disparity? |
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Vinegar dosing probably won't make a difference. How long ago was the last calcium test before you got the 240 ppm measurement? Water changes will lower alkalinity a bit if there's nitrate in the water column, and that could lead to this problem over a very long time frame.
You might have gotten a bad batch of salt, or there might be some other similar issue. Another possibility is dosing alkalinity supplement thinking it's calcium, which has happened at least once before.
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Hi Jonathan,
> 6 months since my last Ca test. Ca was always around 400ppm.Embarrasing to say, but yes, I should not have stopped testing Ca. My NO3 is almost undetectable to the point I started to dose NO3 (Sodium Nitrate solution) daily. Even with dosing, NO3 has not been greater than 0.5ppm. I also dose Kalk in my topoff water. KH has been tested weekly and been between 7.8 - 8.1 dKH. Almost no water changes in the last 6 months. |
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I am not sure what happened, then. I don't think that kind of drop would be expected for such a setup, although 6 months is a long time. Every month or two should be okay for most systems.
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Thanks Jonathan. I will correct the parameters and keep an eye con it.
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Okay. Please let us know if you find any interesting trends.
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nopox
can I start vinegar dosing wheni finish my bottle of no pox or do I have to start from scratch ie the dosing guide ….
I am assuming nopox Is somewhat a vinegar base as the smell is similar to vinegar ... |
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Hi Tom,
You don't have to start from scratch. Just adjust the dosing to the Vinegar equivalent. According to well respected RC Mod Bertoni, the vinegar equivalent is about 3 times your current NOPOX dose and recommends starting a little below that. See this thread about the topic: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=2667544 |
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There's also a DIY formula for NOPOx:
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Randy,
First off good reads I have been enjoying them. I am getting frustrated with my system. Almost ready to give it up (not there quite yet). I have roughly 300 gallons of water in my system. I am dosing close to 470ml a day of vinegar. I am running my protein skimmer like crazy. I just can not get under 10ppm with nitrate. Now normally i would not care about this as i feed heavy and run a normally heavy load. However I have a Bryopsis attack that has to be fed by nutrients. Did you ever figure out how much was too much on your vinegar? Do i keep going up until i find the magic amount? Do i add biopellets as well? Oh by the way i have a 90 gallon refugium also set up with a HUGE ball of chateo, and a remote deep sand bed (6" total sand in a 50 gallon brute trough). |
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Randy does not frequent RC anymore.
He is however on the other channel.
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