Monday, February 26, 2007
Utter grossness. I needed 7g of buffer to bring the alkalinity back up, and now it's overshot the mark. It's not grossly high, still within limits (in fact, Xenia - if I still had any - would be loving me right now) but I guess it's the rapid bolus that did it. The coral's aren't happy at all. Fack it .. I don't have time to tend to the dumb chemical balance in the tank right now. Dumped in 500g of phosphate resin though, and threw in 1 teaspoon of sugar.
The phosphate resin's to adsorb the excess phosphate, I'm going to bring it down to 0. The sugar should provide some source of carbon to create a bacterial bloom which should then deplete the high nitrates in the tank. But doing this would shift phosphate up, and hence the resin. So here we go.
Calcium - perfect
Alkalinity - perfect
Strontium - perfect
pH - perfect
Phosphate - soon to be perfect
Nitrate - soon to be perfect
Corals - still unhappy. WTF. Lol.
Oooh, wish I owned iodine and magnesium test kits, that'll really fuel my control freakiness.
Haha .. sounds like the K+ - glucose - insulin regimen for diabetic ketoacidosis. Meddling with all the dumbass ions. Ironically, acid-base and all these ions are the ones that are giving me quite a headache - medicine, not my tank.
Spent the entire day doing MCQs. Alas, and I JUST discovered (though I heard) that the MCQ test we had some days ago had questions repeated from previous years. Let's hope this happens for Thursday.
Wenky
11:11 PM
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