210 gallon Dream tank
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MarcosDelgado0
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Do you mean he comes to fill your tank with NSW? How much does that run you guys?
Dang that would be awesome if the price isn’t crazy
1 to 1.25 per gallon depending on his route. That was the last time I checked.
I have Bob's number. If you buy more than 100 gallons he'll deliver. He's the guy who sells nsw to neptunes. Much, much cheaper than what neptunes sells it for.
He's pretty close to neptunes so I'm guessing it will be $1 a gallon for him
Alexander1312
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Despite the higher phosphate, a good way to start the tank. However, per my math, approx double the cost of filling up the tank with a high/highest quality synthetic salt.
Dang not bad. Considering how much I need. Plus the frag tank. Thats around just under 300 gallons minus what ever volume sand and rocks will take up.
It would easily cost me probably the same or more in salt. Not to even considering having to wait 2 weeks to make rodi water to fill the tanks.
tribbitt
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You can always just wait for the alk to come down on its own
Is your system dual membranes now? It shouldn’t take 2 weeks right?
Kensington Reefer
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Keep in mind
The water the Bob delivers is 55 degrees
The water the Bob delivers is 55 degrees
Unless it's 110 out that day.
Never hooked up the second one. It's just sitting on top of rodi unit. When eric was over he added some pressure thingy to it that came with new tank so it does make water alot faster than it was. So I honestly can't say how long it would take. I've never fully drained the 55gal drum. Butnthe 10gak brute I had before use to taken3 days before eric didnhis magic.
tribbitt
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Hope it works fine now, my water fills 5g in 40min
It’s a bit weird now though, the TDS meter says there’s suspiciously low TDS recently. 2-3 ppm rather than the usual 14 coming out of the membrane
And it measures 0 coming out of clearly exhausted resin lol
At least i have another canister of resin it goes through first
It’s a bit weird now though, the TDS meter says there’s suspiciously low TDS recently. 2-3 ppm rather than the usual 14 coming out of the membrane
And it measures 0 coming out of clearly exhausted resin lol
At least i have another canister of resin it goes through first
PjFish
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Wait thought Bob was 300g minimum? Will he do 200?
I have no skin in this game, though Michael did buy it off me, but I feel this might be getting overcomplicated. It'll be a new tank, hopefully sitting through a bit of a cycle and then getting really basic starter corals and some livestock. Even if it mixes up at 14dkh @ 35ppt it'd be fine. If you want lower alk initially, run it at 33dkh (I do my tanks at 33.7 just b/c).
If at any point you want lower alk, chemically lower it by adding some HCl, using the readily available calculators and easy to buy from amazon fluid. That's what I do when I have some that mixes up beyond my target, or if I accidentally add too much Soda mix when bumping up the alk on a saltwater batch.
Or just let it sit awhile and absorb CO2, as it naturally will, which will also consume the dKh. Or add new rock, which tends to absorb dKh. Or ...
All that to say, I wouldn't worry about it. Get the tank ready. Mix up whatever you got with good clean RODI, get the cycle going. Whatever you do isn't a big deal and adjustable in the future.
If at any point you want lower alk, chemically lower it by adding some HCl, using the readily available calculators and easy to buy from amazon fluid. That's what I do when I have some that mixes up beyond my target, or if I accidentally add too much Soda mix when bumping up the alk on a saltwater batch.
Or just let it sit awhile and absorb CO2, as it naturally will, which will also consume the dKh. Or add new rock, which tends to absorb dKh. Or ...
All that to say, I wouldn't worry about it. Get the tank ready. Mix up whatever you got with good clean RODI, get the cycle going. Whatever you do isn't a big deal and adjustable in the future.
Based on feed back here I think it actually may be better for my main biocube32 that I always have to dose afr
In daily. I do weekly water changes on it but reef crystals can't keep up with my consumption. So maybe if I use this for water changes in my main tank than I may not need the afr daily in any case.
I will need more salt for current tank any way. If this thought had merit let me know?
Not droping coals in 200gal anytime soon anyway. Still over 1-2 months away from starting it up. I've gotten the idea to replace the flooring in my living room. Alot easier before tank is fully set up with salt water. I will keeo going on it and get it ready to go. I will plan to do a test with tap water once it’s ready. So moving foward regardless.
It was about 200g for mine plus trash can, but I had Erin who vouched for me lol. Up to Bob of course but if it lines up with his other deliveries I'm sure that factors in.
SG. 100% your call.
Be careful using sizable water changes to manage things like Alk. For basic corals and stuff no big deal, but that strategy is effectively saying "I'm going to let my alk drop every day, and then once a week I'll spike it way back up all at once". Completely feasible to do especially for softies, but for the same reasons you wouldn't dump a week's worth of Soda Ash in all at once, you don't want to spike it by dumping in a bunch of equivalent-spiked saltwater.
Eg these are the same:
* alk drops to 7, spike it to 9 by dumping in a bunch of Soda Ash
* alk drops to 7, spike it to 9 by doing a big water change of high-alk salt
Whatever you do will probably be fine though
DaddyHook
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Bobhadababyitsaboy is calling collect
BAYMAC
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Depends on the season, run-off, etc. At times the Po4 isn't that bad at all.