Amp's 25g Cube Seagrass build REDUX
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I mix it in an airtight container, but it works out just fine having a vented container for dosing. Once it gets a thin shell on top, there is almost no reaction afterward anyway, so its good for a long, long time--much more than one week. I know some folks who mix a garbage can's worth and it sits for over a month--still good after all that time with little degradation. I think Dr. Holmes-Farley had done a similar study on it. Edit: yep, he did. Here's the link: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-05/rhf/feature/index.php
I don't really understand the second part. Are you dosing kalk or 2 part?
Edit: On a different note, my silly clownfish have begun to attempt to host the new Penicillus I added. It's in a high flow area, so watching them struggle to stay around it is quite amusing. The only catch is that they do it at night, not during the day. They are fairly active during the day, being out and about throughout the tank (not that there's that much room either way, but still).
I've also been observing a lot of other fauna in the tank. The various 'pod populations are exploding. I see hundreds of munnid isopods, gammaridean amphipods (very large ones, at that), and I'm starting to see a good number of harpacticoid copepods, as well. The heavy phytoplankton/rotifer feedings seems to be paying off in that regard. Everything seems to be booming, which granted, is typical of newer tanks, but I plan to keep it that way with this tank. More updates to follow.
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im dosing two part, i have an aqualifter that doses reef builder and i mix up a bottle of advantage calcium that i dose seperateley. my reservior is a gallon sized jug with a screw on cap that has a hole on the top of it so it doesnt get crushed when the aqualifter doses, do you think i could replace with kalk?
As long as the demand isn't gigantic and pH stays reasonable, I don't see why not. It'd be much cheaper than the Seachem stuff. That's essentially what my type of setup is, except I'm using a peristaltic pump.
im dosing 1-2 dkh a day, set up to dose two seperate times during the day, i guess switching it up to dosing at night could keep the ph more stable. my doser holds enough to dose for 8-9 days which i guess equals about 15 dkh, that would probably toast my tank if somehow it accidentally dosed the whole reservior huh? it has happened to me before that the timer fails and it doses the rest of the bottle, fortunateley there was not that much left in the reservior.
If that happened with kalkwasser, it'd be even more catastrophic. If you aren't reasonably confident in the reliability, I wouldn't do it on a smaller tank.
Let's see--that's roughly .2 gallons of saturated kalk per day on a tank of your size. That would be an enormous increase if dosed all at one time. How much does your tank normally evaporate daily?
Let's see--that's roughly .2 gallons of saturated kalk per day on a tank of your size. That would be an enormous increase if dosed all at one time. How much does your tank normally evaporate daily?
You're not taking over the thread, so don't worry about it. The Penicillus actually propagates via runners/rhizoids. If all goes well, I should see daughter plants literally pop out of the substrate in the vicinity of the mother.
It won't be monstrously stocked, except for the clowns and eventual anemone (whatever species). It will be fed incredibly heavily, though--far more than most folks will be comfortable with.
OgreMkV
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Neat idea Amp,
I was going to tell you that a powerhead directed at the glass walls of the tank make a fantastic algal scrubber. That's pretty much what I've been doing in mine. About once a week, I scrape one side completely clean. Still not helping my hair algae issue though.
Looking good. I'm looking forward to seeing the grasses, and anemone.
I was going to tell you that a powerhead directed at the glass walls of the tank make a fantastic algal scrubber. That's pretty much what I've been doing in mine. About once a week, I scrape one side completely clean. Still not helping my hair algae issue though.
Looking good. I'm looking forward to seeing the grasses, and anemone.
