Water Parameters

When I got home from work (around 6pm) I took a photo of an area of the tank that had some cyanobacteria on it. I left the camera in place then dosed my typical 1.5ml VSV, and I’ve been taking photos of the cyano every 30 minutes. It’s been 2 hours since dosing VSV and I personally am really surprised at the visible changes in the tank… but I want to write all this out at once in an uncluttered post, so I’ll probably do it tomorrow or Thursday night.

I measured my water parameters tonight for the first time since November 16th (yikes!!!!) and was happy with what I saw.

Mg: ~1260 ppm
Ca: ~375 ppm
Alk: ~7.7 dKH

That’s pretty good, pretty inline with natural sea water conditions. I’ve only been using my kalk reactor for top-off, no 2-part dosing (although I have the kits handy if I need them, and also won some DT’s additives in a Christmas Giveaway at UberFrags). In the past 2 months with only using the kalkwasser, my Magnesium has dropped ~60ppm, and both my calcium and alkalinity levels improved slightly (roughly 15 ppm each).

By the way, this is a great Reef Calculator from JDieck. I use it regularly and am really grateful that he hosts it for public use.

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