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FireWater
Sat, 13th Apr 2013, 03:34 PM
I have been having some issues in my tank. Loosing all color in my sps and lost a couple nice colonies. I was wracking my brain and asking others what they thought. In my experience there is three main things that cause sps issues- alkalinity swings, bugs, and phosphates.

I don't have bugs.
My alk is a little low, but stable.
My Red Sea phosphate kit showed 0.08. Little high, but no where near causing my issues that I was seeing. I tested three different times and came up with the same results in that ball park.

Chris and Allan came over today to help me with the tank issue so I didn't lose everything. I have been down the last couple of weeks with another back I jury so that didn't help matters either.


Long story short. Hanna phosphate checker showed .20 and .22 on different tests. Bingo! I have a winner for my issues.


That brings me to being really tweaked that my Red Sea test kit was that far off. Because of this I will no longer recommend the algae test kit for reliable findings.
350gt
Sat, 13th Apr 2013, 03:54 PM
Reef mafia!!!!

Urban legends my ***!


jk... Now, get that reactor online and post some digits!


i should have bought the Hanna checkers when Chris had them :(
FireWater
Sat, 13th Apr 2013, 03:55 PM
Hanna is the direction I'm leaning.
Big_Pun
Sat, 13th Apr 2013, 05:28 PM
your welcome sir.... just glad you didn't take a hammer to the tank before I got there to test .
allan
Sat, 13th Apr 2013, 05:35 PM
Yeah, it was a good visit. Chris and I working like Hebrew slaves while whitey John standing there gripping tightly his cane. He was so angry at times that his legs trembled in fury.


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Big_Pun
Sun, 14th Apr 2013, 09:08 AM
Yeah, it was a good visit. Chris and I working like Hebrew slaves while whitey John standing there gripping tightly his cane. He was so angry at times that his legs trembled in fury.


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I have bruise on my legs from his cane.
Texreefer
Sun, 14th Apr 2013, 09:34 AM
He was so angry at times that his legs trembled in fury.
Allan are you sure that wasn't just your presence causing his legs to tremble.
JOHN! You DO REALIZE I live like 2 blocks away...I know i'm not as manly as Allan but Im a willing partaicipant..Guess i'm not Gansta enough?
FireWater
Sun, 14th Apr 2013, 10:18 AM
That's fine Mike. I appreciate it too.
We were just talking about the issues and because of my false readings on the test kit I didn't narrow out the phosphates. So Chris offered to use his checkers to double check my test. Kind of an impromptu gathering.