"Q"
01/16/2002, 03:19 PM
Randy:
I set up my first tank which is 75 gallons with a 4 in DSB with sand from ESV. I took over a friends live stock as soon as the water cleared because he wanted to get rid of it immeadietly. Nothing has died and the diatom bloom only lasted 7 days.
I (like a fool) messed up on my calcium test kit and added too much early into the set-up. It was around 525 or so. It was just off the scale and the alk was at around 15 DKH. I know both are high but I didn't really notice any snow so I left it alone as there was coraline algea and some shrooms to consume the calcium. I was having to ad 1 tsp twice a day to keep my alk at 4 meq/L while the diatoms were there. Now i only ad 3/4 tps of buffer a day and 1/2 cap full of calcium every 2 days to keep it at 400.
I noticed some clumping on my sand bed so I felt it and it was hard so I broke it up and the rest of the bed wasn't that hard but might have been a little stiff so I moved around the top 1/4 or so.
Was that the result of my stupidity or will I continue to have problems?
Thanks for your time.
Matt
I set up my first tank which is 75 gallons with a 4 in DSB with sand from ESV. I took over a friends live stock as soon as the water cleared because he wanted to get rid of it immeadietly. Nothing has died and the diatom bloom only lasted 7 days.
I (like a fool) messed up on my calcium test kit and added too much early into the set-up. It was around 525 or so. It was just off the scale and the alk was at around 15 DKH. I know both are high but I didn't really notice any snow so I left it alone as there was coraline algea and some shrooms to consume the calcium. I was having to ad 1 tsp twice a day to keep my alk at 4 meq/L while the diatoms were there. Now i only ad 3/4 tps of buffer a day and 1/2 cap full of calcium every 2 days to keep it at 400.
I noticed some clumping on my sand bed so I felt it and it was hard so I broke it up and the rest of the bed wasn't that hard but might have been a little stiff so I moved around the top 1/4 or so.
Was that the result of my stupidity or will I continue to have problems?
Thanks for your time.
Matt