ProfitOfDoom
New Member
Some of you may have read a few of my earlier post's,but if you havent the story is the wife and I wanted to try to get into saltwater,was planning on starting from the begining,small and slow. Well long story short we ran into a deal that we couldn't pass up and ended up with a Full set up,from skimmers,to a mp40 power head,to a RODI unit,ATO,apex unit ,and the fish and live rocks that came with it.
So here we almost a week in,and so far so good.Researching and learning as we go just trying to do the best we can in this situation. Just put the fish into the 75 gallon tank about 2 days ago,the water is pretty much new as of yesterday and no signs of problems yet,but we payed a visit to a LFS and he was very informative but also scared us as we explained what all we did and what we have and he said more than likely we will probably experience problems including live stock dying off within a months time.
We're going to do all we can to keep this from happening,so we had a test kit and ran some tests,some things were high,some were ok. Here is what I came up with...
Salinity was pretty much spot on at about 1.026,were going to keep a close eye on that and make sure the ato isnt feeding too much rodi water in or too little. "we used the red sea salt mix in the blueish bucket"
As of right now the PH is 7.87
Temp is 77.9
Alkalinity was between 13-14 Dkh
Calcium was 720 and that seems very high!?
Nitrates was 5ppm
Phosphates was 0.
We just hooked up the sump area and got the protein skimmer running for about the last 4 hours,so Im told that might help out alot with some things,Before that we just had a penguin 350 biowheel skimmer filter running. We also have a small kobalt power head running all the time,we're going to hook up the mp-40 soon,on a side note with a 75G tank,think the mp40 is all I'll need and ditch the smaller kobalt head?
As far as lighting we pretty much just been using a strip LED light bar and have it on bright during the day and dull blue at night. I did just pick up a set of Radion XR15's but really only had them on today for a few hours,,and advice on timing on those would be great.
But like I said so far so good,fish seem healthy and active,the few corals I do have really to seem to be thriving and doing well,water is clear,but we would like to keep it that way if at all possible.
The guy had us buy this 8oz bottle of quick cycle stuff and said to add it and just hope for the best "$25.00"
I havent added it yet,I thought I would post pretty much all the info I knew at the moment and maybe some experienced people can give me the input on if a good idea to add this stuff,or to not,,or maybe add that as well as some other things? Any advice would be appreciated,Thanks!
So here we almost a week in,and so far so good.Researching and learning as we go just trying to do the best we can in this situation. Just put the fish into the 75 gallon tank about 2 days ago,the water is pretty much new as of yesterday and no signs of problems yet,but we payed a visit to a LFS and he was very informative but also scared us as we explained what all we did and what we have and he said more than likely we will probably experience problems including live stock dying off within a months time.
We're going to do all we can to keep this from happening,so we had a test kit and ran some tests,some things were high,some were ok. Here is what I came up with...
Salinity was pretty much spot on at about 1.026,were going to keep a close eye on that and make sure the ato isnt feeding too much rodi water in or too little. "we used the red sea salt mix in the blueish bucket"
As of right now the PH is 7.87
Temp is 77.9
Alkalinity was between 13-14 Dkh
Calcium was 720 and that seems very high!?
Nitrates was 5ppm
Phosphates was 0.
We just hooked up the sump area and got the protein skimmer running for about the last 4 hours,so Im told that might help out alot with some things,Before that we just had a penguin 350 biowheel skimmer filter running. We also have a small kobalt power head running all the time,we're going to hook up the mp-40 soon,on a side note with a 75G tank,think the mp40 is all I'll need and ditch the smaller kobalt head?
As far as lighting we pretty much just been using a strip LED light bar and have it on bright during the day and dull blue at night. I did just pick up a set of Radion XR15's but really only had them on today for a few hours,,and advice on timing on those would be great.
But like I said so far so good,fish seem healthy and active,the few corals I do have really to seem to be thriving and doing well,water is clear,but we would like to keep it that way if at all possible.
The guy had us buy this 8oz bottle of quick cycle stuff and said to add it and just hope for the best "$25.00"
I havent added it yet,I thought I would post pretty much all the info I knew at the moment and maybe some experienced people can give me the input on if a good idea to add this stuff,or to not,,or maybe add that as well as some other things? Any advice would be appreciated,Thanks!
