Calcium Dispenser

The RO water mixed with Kalkwasser is BAD since it reacts quickly with air to precipitate the calcium out of the solution, and pumping in the precipitate is A Bad Thing.

So I put a Tunze Calcium Dispenser in the RO bucket. Basically the RO water is pumped through the dispenser to the sump. Inside the closed dispenser is the kalkwasser mix.

Added 10ml Combisan and will try to add this on a weekly basis.

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Live Stock!

Steven tested the water and it seems to have almost no Ammonia/Nitrites. So he said it should be fine for me to add some invertebrates. Thus I purchased the following:

  • Colt Coral
  • Green Mushroom Coral
  • LPS Brain Coral (came on the same rock than Green Mushroom Coral)
  • Boxer Shrimp
  • 4 Turbo Snails
  • 4 Blue Legged Hermit Crabs
550l Reef Aquarium Aquascaping
550l Reef Aquarium Aquascaping
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Attempt at fixing SG

I replaced about 30l of saltwater with fresh RO water to fix the SG. It is now 1.025 which seem much better. The alkalinity is taking a dip though - down from 7.5 to 6. Started adding kalkwasser again by adding 4 flat teaspoons to 13l of RO topup water. This implies I have just installed a Tunze Osmolator kit that handles auto topoff.

Live Rock

I purchased 80kg of cured live rock from Exotic Aquarium. After a 4 hour transport I rinsed them one by one in saltwater from the tank. Since I am clueless about aquascaping I merely placed them all in a brick wall in the tank.

Grrr The Big Tank Leveling Exercise

Damn JC did not level the tank as I asked. So between Karin and myself we managed to drain about 85% of the water into both bath tubs and the buckets I had standing around. The rest was discarded. With much pain and suffering we leveled the tank and refilled it with the water that was now in the bath tubs...

Since I lost about 15% of the water, I had to make up some new water. I did not really have the RO unit connected, so in went some more tap water with Tropic Marine salt (non Pro-Reef). I guess the calculation on the side of the bucket was not that accurate since the Specific Gravity went up dramatically to 1.028.