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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:08 PM   #76
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Specific gravity, yes salinity, not the same but close

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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:09 PM   #77
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What salt mix do you use, and water change regimes?

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Red Sea Pro Salt and do 70 gallons water changes every week


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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:10 PM   #78
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I'm same way, I have to start real low as well, I'm using aquaforest now it's the lowest I can find , kinda neat they send a test paper in box , 7.8 is what last box said, let your chillers do more of the heavy lifting on cooling , backing cooling fans off will reduce it a lot

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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:11 PM   #79
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I'm same way, I have to start real low as well, I'm using aquaforest now it's the lowest I can find , kinda neat they send a test paper in box , 7.8 is what last box said, let your chillers do more of the heavy lifting on cooling , backing cooling fans off will reduce it a lot

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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:15 PM   #80
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I run a auto water change, and if I feel the tank is getting to much kalk reactor, usually in the summer, I change a little more water on the apex, just add more time..this should on be a temporary thing when the tank grows out most of all this goes away..

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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:16 PM   #81
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So got a question I use Red Sea Pro Salt in order to lower everything I have to use just Red Sea Salt when I do water change ?


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Here, I have to start low, I believe red sea starts at 10?

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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:17 PM   #82
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Here, I have to start low, I believe ref sea starts at 10?

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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:18 PM   #83
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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:19 PM   #84
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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:31 PM   #85
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Tank has been up for a few years now , I had two other tanks that leaked and I had no where to put all live stock but in my big tank , and most of my big stuff didn't survive, I now have got most of the killers out and the sps and acros are coming around, my 75 and 110 was my sps tanks this was a fish only tank, so after all that, I moved all equipment to the big tank and only have one running now, life is easier, neat to watch the tank evolve , but it was sad to lose all that time and effort.

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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:33 PM   #86
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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:42 PM   #87
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I'm not home, those all I have, on New phone, your tank looks nice, big fish, mostly softies and community fish? Don't see many hard corals, if so I wouldn't freak out over the high alk , if sps is your thing than yea, I pay closet attention to it then , but in a softy tank I would leave it alone a just feed a bunch more..not even worry about it, they don't care that much..you could run that tank fat, witch it kinda looks like, fat I mean high nutrients

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Unread 10/14/2017, 01:58 PM   #88
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Thanks ! It still drives me crazy that I can't get my ph up no matter what I do . I really do want to have a nice reef !! But it seems like I don't get the growth color etc like everyone else does . Drives me nuts !!


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Unread 10/14/2017, 02:07 PM   #89
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Thanks ! It still drives me crazy that I can't get my ph up no matter what I do . I really do want to have a nice reef !! But it seems like I don't get the growth color etc like everyone else does . Drives me nuts !!


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Well, I think the tank looks fine, can't tell what the big green thing up top is , two years old is just when a reef tank starts to begin to mature, this year your sponge and such should start to mature as well. That's big tank..whats the sump and filtration look like? Have you tried any sps ? If so what happened?

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Unread 10/14/2017, 02:14 PM   #90
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What firmware version is on apex?

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Unread 10/14/2017, 02:24 PM   #91
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It's a 80 gallon trigger sump with chaleto in the refugium


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Unread 10/14/2017, 02:24 PM   #92
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What firmware version is on apex?

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I have the latest firmware


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Unread 10/14/2017, 02:26 PM   #93
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Unread 10/14/2017, 02:33 PM   #95
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You said first probe did same thing , I see a par meter on apex with zero is it working? Maybe problem with apex and needs the firmware flashed is it hardwired?

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Unread 10/14/2017, 04:36 PM   #96
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If you want to add more pop, you can add some t5s, and some extra uv leds, might smooth out the color some.. I have been told on other post that I'm a bb fan boy, that might be true ..

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Unread 10/14/2017, 05:13 PM   #97
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Neither the salt mix nor water changes will affect the pH level, assuming the alkalinity level remains in the acceptable zone. If the pH measurement is correct, the issue is carbon dioxide. Running a refugium on a reverse-lit schedule might help with the pH during the night. Other than that, adding a large room-level carbon dioxide scrubber or air exchanger would be the most likely approaches that could help, although they are a fair amount of expense and trouble.


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Unread 10/14/2017, 05:28 PM   #98
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Neither the salt mix nor water changes will affect the pH level, assuming the alkalinity level remains in the acceptable zone. If the pH measurement is correct, the issue is carbon dioxide. Running a refugium on a reverse-lit schedule might help with the pH during the night. Other than that, adding a large room-level carbon dioxide scrubber or air exchanger would be the most likely approaches that could help, although they are a fair amount of expense and trouble.
Yea we know that, the ph probe is not reading properly, and he has high alk from his kalk reactor, the discussion on salt mix was starting alk numbers if he's at 12 and his salt mix starts at 10 he's adding 2 points, he also don't have a bunch of hard corals so imo don't matter that much for those softies ,

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Unread 10/14/2017, 05:34 PM   #99
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You said first probe did same thing , I see a par meter on apex with zero is it working? Maybe problem with apex and needs the firmware flashed is it hardwired?

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Yeah I have the par meter but it's not in the tank it's under the stand .


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Unread 10/14/2017, 05:37 PM   #100
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Hu??put it in the tank and collect some data..

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