Recent content by Jerrod

Hi all I posted last week with a question about raising my calcium levels. Due to everyone's help I think the problem is due to the fact that my magnesium is too low - around 900PPM. I have a Tropic Marin Bio-Magnesium but it seems to take a lot of this stuff to do anything so am wondering...

WOW Thanks. I went to the web site containing the magnesium/calcium info and what think I get from this is that the Mag allows a greater concentration of calcium to be present before it will precipitate. Since I have the bio-mag I can use it but it seems like it will take almost a month to...

Hey I have been dosing the Kalk for about 3 weeks, but only about 2 days each week, so I guess I need to do it every day Huh? I got a Mag test tonight. It is reading 990ppm so from what I have been reading that is too low. I have tropic marin bio-mag but having used it as much as the...

I mix 2 teaspoons to 1 gallon. I use a Kent drip doser which holds 2.5 gallons, so my initial dose was for about 2 gallons because the drip tube is in the middle of the container about 2 inches from the bottom. So there is always some fluid in the container when I add more. Anyway I mix 2...

Thanks for your note I thought it might be the test kit, so I bought a Salifert, a Sea Test, a Quik test, and now a Tropic Marin. They are all reading around 200ppm when the water is taken from the tank. I added some bio-calcium to the change water in the bucket. I tested before and after...

I am trying to grow and maintain coralline algae. I bought three pieces of rock with the algae already on it. So far the algae is not a deep purple as it was, but it is still living the rock. I would eventually like it to spread throughout the tank. I I need to get my calcium up to around...

I am treating a case of ICK using the hypo salinity method. I have taken the specific gravity to around 1.09 and the salinity is around 10ppt. My swing type hydrometer did not record readings this low so I purchased a refractometer which has readings that go as low as zero for specific...

I checked the label on the Kent Xtreme It contains 99% Allium Sativum Extract and in Parens it says says Garlic Juice. The rest is Citric Acid and Asorbic Acid. It smells awful. I am soaking the food in this. The instructions also say that if the fish are eating you can put 1 drop per gallon...

Yesterday I noticed 2 fish in my fish only tank that seem to have ICK. I have used copper(cupramine) in the past and it has worked. Saturday I bought a bottle of Kent Marine Garlic Xtreme and have been soaking the food in this. I also have a large container of No-ICK Marine by fish-vet and...