• How many sailors there are now.

  • Nicole

Scud. WHAT TO DO with it? It mainly lives in sumps, as hunters for live food quickly find it in main aquariums.

Erica

Isn't it a gammarus?

Sarah

Hello everyone. Everything is clear with Gammarus, thank you all. I urgently need an auto top-off. Pavlik, sorry, the one that my mother-in-law accidentally threw away before, I just took it out, thinking to rinse it. In general, I'm left without an auto top-off. What can anyone suggest?

Cindy

I'll send a new one... I have one in reserve...

Erin

class!!!

Chad

I'm going to Crimea for the May holidays from April 30 to May 4. If anyone is interested, feel free to join. Here's the report from last year.

Jennifer

Take a couple of 1.5-liter bottles and send them to me in Chernihiv... I'm interested in brackish water kolovratka from the LIMAN!!!

Kimberly

How to raise the pH from something like 7.6 in the morning to 8 in the evening?

James

Senya, are you kidding? You're a sailor and you maintain a reef and you don't know how to keep this issue under control? Well, I'll try. As organic matter accumulates and the metabolism in the aquarium progresses, the pH tends to decrease. The main thing in pH drop is the reduction of alkalinity (carbonate hardness). The simplest and safest way to raise pH in the reef is by adding a sodium bicarbonate solution (NaHCO3), that is, baking soda, at a rate of approximately 0.025g of soda per 1 liter of seawater to raise pH by 0.1 units. But do it carefully. There are many methods, but if needed, we can discuss them later.

Sara

I'm not joking. I just forgot about the soda. I bought pH+ in a jar, and it doesn't help at all, damn it. That's why I asked, just in case. I have a nature that prefers to ask and clarify rather than take action without knowing.

Keith

There is one downside to soda - silicates...

Karen

This is if it is calcined. And one more thing. When sodium bicarbonate is absorbed by SPS corals (along with calcium), an excess hydrogen ion is released, which acidifies the water. It's better to use the old proven method - calcium hydroxide (calcwasser).

Debra

Are you saying that there is a noticeable amount of silicates in the square paper packages in which baking soda is sold?

Jacqueline

I added 1 teaspoon of soda to the osmosis water (it was necessary to raise the pH) and measured for silicates. The result was 2 mg/L.

Emily

Wow! I will take note.

Christopher

You shouldn't pour soda into the mixer. You don't need to add anything there except for calcium carbonate. Soda should just be dissolved in osmosis water separately. By the way, the TDS meter shows quite a high reading. I have a stable 0 after the resin. If it's 0.01-0.02, then it's time to change the resin. What kind of resin is it? Maybe the flow through the resin is too high?

Thomas

The duct is fine. I think maybe it's time to change the membrane; it's been 1.5 years, or is it still too early? Also, in the sump, some grass has started to appear on the walls; I wonder what that's about. By the way, the glass in the jar is just a nightmare with how it overgrows. By the way, how do you mix this soda? It just doesn't seem to dissolve.

Tiffany

Hello everyone, good day. A question of life and death. Here a person is asking to send post 38, and I am interested in what to buy to raise calcium levels. And the response is silence; as soon as something is asked, no one replies, but when it comes to giving advice, there is no one around.

Tanner

How is your marine aquarium doing, what’s new? Very interesting.

Chad

I struggle with it more than I admire it.