Virgin Ground And The Little Star Asterion

The yellow is ok, the blue one is better,
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Thank you so much! I have a little time to shop around. I need to use up my liquid ph kit. I use it for my fish also and it is near its expiration date. I will have to pick up a fresh kit for them.
 
I can. I don't know if there are any cross contamination concerns. Bat guano would probably mess my system up if it was introduced, even in small amounts. I don't know what kind of pathogens my fish could catch. They are ornamental fish and I do deworm them regularly.

I usually buy a kit that tests nitrate, ph, nitrite,ammonia etc. It has a bunch of test tubes and solutions with it. Ph high and low range test kit are included. They only go as low as 6 ph though. Which is fine for my aquariums.
 
Found my new favorite cooking show on YouTube. It's called...You suck at cooking. This man clearly has a special mind. The grilled cheese episode sent me into a 10 minute coughing fit. I have graduated from hacking cough to barking seal cough. Time for some serious nyquil.
 
Virgin ground said:
Ok, thanks for the input. I've been looking at the blue lab ph pen. Spendy though. Any you suggest?
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I love this one. Tossed or broke several others before. Have Hanna stuff as well, but the blue pen works quicker while adjusting.

The important things are:

1) You get check fluids, and use them correctly where you put some in a ball jar and use that for a couple months and dump it and replace.
2) Learn to know how it errors.
3) Calibrate weekly
4) Get really stoned and listen to D.J. Shadow Endtroducing....


Virgin ground said:
I can. I don't know if there are any cross contamination concerns. Bat guano would probably mess my system up if it was introduced, even in small amounts. I don't know what kind of pathogens my fish could catch. They are ornamental fish and I do deworm them regularly.

I usually buy a kit that tests nitrate, ph, nitrite,ammonia etc. It has a bunch of test tubes and solutions with it. Ph high and low range test kit are included. They only go as low as 6 ph though. Which is fine for my aquariums.
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Keep em hobby specific.

Do you have an RO filter(s)? Some pens you can store in pretty low ph ro water and that keeps them clean. The blue pen instructions say to use their fluid. A bottle of their fluid lasts near a lifetime.
 
@nobodyhere .. I have been looking at the Hanna meters also. Ultimately $$$ will decide. I am trying to find one that has a replaceable probe for a decent price.

I do not have RO.
 
My hanna meter is a combo pH alk meter on one sample of water, it's a pretty expensive one (over 1K). It takes about 90 seconds after the sample is placed. This is really not useful for the way we or I add nutes to water and check the outcome or add pH adjuster and check the outcome.

But it's great for telling me the cheap pens don't work consistently with one sample of water.:p

IMO, it's ok to cheap out on a ppm pen. If you even need that.
 
So..... I think I may have lockout from too much calcium. I know I have hard water, along with that I added calcium in the form of molasses and also dolomite lime. Getting too high on my own supply, evidently.

I noticed that the last time I mixed my nutes up, they looked kinda gray and milky after I added the bloom nutes. I think my excess of C is binding up my P.

This is my most recent theory. I will wait for a clearer head before I do anything drastic.

Nyquil+weed= whee-super-fun-time!
 
Yeah, I will definitely back off. I am going to see how much ro/gallon is at Wally world. I don't have many plants and if I cut my tap with ro it wouldn't be very spendy. Then I can save up for an ro buddie for later on.

I kinda want one anyway for a new aquarium I want to start up. I would like to keep some of the more sensitive species that thrive in more neutral waters. I have enough fish tanks and crap sitting around, that I could set up 4 more tanks. Just ridiculous. That's cool though. My kids really dig their pet fish.
 
Virgin ground said:
Yeah, I will definitely back off. I am going to see how much ro/gallon is at Wally world. I don't have many plants and if I cut my tap with ro it wouldn't be very spendy. Then I can save up for an ro buddie for later on.

I kinda want one anyway for a new aquarium I want to start up. I would like to keep some of the more sensitive species that thrive in more neutral waters. I have enough fish tanks and crap sitting around, that I could set up 4 more tanks. Just ridiculous. That's cool though. My kids really dig their pet fish.
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you ever price units at bulkreefsupply? I bought a replacement unit there about 4 yrs ago, it's 1 pre, 2 carbon, 2 ro, 2 di standard stages, overkill for anything in our plant world, but necessary for corals. There are a lot of RODI costs that are dependent on the source water, it's hardness, and it's co2.

The walmart water that is ro, distilled, and UV is actually decent water. Routinely well under 9ppm which is excellent for a shelf bulk water.
 
I was looking on chewy.com. The ro buddie 4 stage is $60. I am familiar with bulk reef and will check them out. I think should check Dr. Foster and Smith too.
 
I heard good things about it on a fish forum.
 
Just make sure it uses standard size filters and not some proprietary filter size. I was looking at live aquaria and did not know they carried supplies now.
 
Good point. I will keep it in mind.

I really hate the waste water aspect of ro units. What do you do with the waste water?
 
The waste water is the water I use for the plants. In my system it's water thats been through a 1 micron filter, then two one micron carbon blocks.

My city uses chloramine, it eats carbon blocks, using two and shifting one in the rear forward when I service helps me get about a year out of a block-the old block becomes the pre-block.

Water in 22ppm
Waste 8-9ppm
RODI water out 0ppm 5.9pH (I use weird DI that lowers pH, there is one that does the opposite).

If your on a well that has high co2, then those eat carbon every couple months.
 
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