Delphinus88

Seed your tank with coraline shavings from another tank that has it growing on the glass?

I noticed that the doser was off when I came home. With the house open all day the pH was higher than then limit I set to prevent the doser from overdosing alk. Is there such a thing as too high?

30-70%.

I have the octo pulse 4 on one end and a gyre on the other end of a 180. I use it on the tide setting and it moves a ton of water but it is probably the loudest thing in my tank. I assume if I changed it to constant I would notice it as much.

Great. Thanks for the info.

I just opened the small 100ml part A and B and noticed they are not sealed in any way. Can anyone who uses this advise if their product is usually sealed? Wondering if it was a return and if to trust it enough to put into the tank.

Did you find any?

I got mine off of eBay. I imagine I am several weeks away from being able to share.

Will do. Thanks for the recommendation.

Surely that would be preferred but somewhere in my "research" either Paul B or David Ramsey (has some great you tube videos) said it was fine and it was getting hard to find just plain potting soil. I generally wouldn't put bread, yogurt, yeast flakes or cat food in my tank either but here we are.

I hope Paul chimes in but I'm just using miracle grow potting soil. I was pleasantly surprised to see how many worms were in there when I buried the bread and added cat food. Almost no action on the surface but many in the soil.

Thanks for the advice to bury the bread. I already had some spikey hair looking fungus and was wondering what I got myself into.

I started my culture in the last week. How long till it takes off?

I would recalibrate it and see depending on what types of redundancies you have in place if it is not going to have any accuracy. I never did get a high accuracy temp probe (NIST) but used everything I had to measure water temp and averaged those. Most were really close. Makes me wonder if recalibration is needed as part of regular maintenance?

This sump is 90 gal and I only move it a few inches but it has held up fine for 5 years.