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On the GAC when you think it is time to change it run a diluted solution of MB. If the GAC is still removing the dye the GAC is not exhauste. However, you should try a fresh GAC sample and measure its time on how long it takes fresh GAC to remove the dye from the sample water. Don't look for...

Salifert use to or still does make a organic test kit . You can test GAC to see if it is exhausted using Methylene Blue. You can't test CO? with a kit but could buy a pCO? probe/meter. It is easier to just use our calculator for CO...

This was brought to my attention just two days ago by a friend. This species of yeast is not know to survive in seawater. Matter of fact there is only one know species that can. The dose is ?/? tsp / 400 gal and I find it hard such a small amount could do that much. The other issue I have is he...

First and foremost, test your new seawater mix before you add it to see what it says. Maybe it is your kit or you are not using it correctly. What was the doser adding exactly, how much was added from the doser. If your Mg ++ over dose gave ~4000 ppm your water changes would still leave it at...

Yes, better. Alk goes mostly to 3 chemical process, 1) Biotic precipitation to Corals and coralline algae to build thier calcium carbonate structure.2) Abiotic precipitation, on pumps, sand and glass, as calcium carbonate and 3) To help buffer the water from acids that are produced, so...

Mu, as per OH Yes, Coralline will lower the Calcium and Alk but also the Magnesium. And if you were also losing Magnesium that would make it even more so. Meaning, the Alk drops 0.60, the Calcium 10 ppm and say the Magnesium 10 ppm you should lose more like 2.8 dKH vs 0.60. These things...

Mu You have a testing error. A 10 ppm Calcium drop should give a drop in the Alk of 1.4 dKH, not. 0.6 drop. And a 5 ppm drop in Calcium would give about a 0.6 drop in dKH. That 5 ppm Calcium missing just really can't happen. If not a Calcium testing error then a Alk testing error. Where your...

Mu Yes, as pointed out, your Calcium consumption is to high . Matter of fact it is 2x to high. That 0.6 dKH should only be about 5 ppm not 10 ppm. Your error is one of the 3. You, the Alk kit or the Hanna meter. I agree with your assumption it is that Hanna. They have always had issues for...

It is a testing error 2reefs. It chemically can not happy.

Doc Here yah go, your field much more than mine. Enough with listed ref to keep one reading for a month. Short course: As defined by Biology Online, hydrolytic enzymes are proteins that use water to perform their digestive functions. In the observed fish species, the pyloric caeca fill and...

What I was saying Doc is they seem to have found some new indicators of the pyloric caece in fish. I will see if I can find that peer - reviewed article again. In short, IIRC, it is producing a chemical solution/ enzyme, right near the junction that ends up in the stomach to aid in digestion. Do...

Paul I have no issue with what you are doing. There is more than one way to skin a cat. I did the same as you for decades as you know. I also have no issue with sorry " natural" foods, to incude John's. But to put down one for another when someone's option comes off as fact bothers me. Fish and...

Achilles What ? Boomer I'm guessing you are with another company and mad you were not ask to do the forum. Get over yourself before you explode. You are clueless. I work for no company and have been fully retired for 10 years, from the iron ore mining company and EOD, 37 years. I have my...

John I believe that Mother Nature's prebiotic and probiotics are an all-natural alternative to any external supplement. I am not the one making claims about results. I don't have to. Mother Nature should be the gold standard by which all diets are judged. I am sorry but Mother Nature is not a...

Doc Sorry, but it sounds to me you are speaking without any knowledge base of the issue at hand. I am one that believes strongly in data and not some spew because one says so. Please post or show any data on fish that your claim is true or has any validness at all. Trying to compare many others...