I forgot to ask the easiest question what city are you located in?
If you are near the santa clara I could test all those parameters for you including salinity.
If not there could be another member near you willing to check them for you.
It's a lot of information your getting, just think of it as a learning curve. There will never be a point where you stop learning new things. Even our Jedi master reefers here would agree with such a statement.
Once you get a hold of the basics of reefing It's very easy. Than It's off to the races.
Consider starting a tank journal, it’s useful to others to refrence when you have issues such as these. It's also very helpful to you as a record showing your journey and tank transformation.
You can also veiw other peoples tank journals, there are several members with awesome tanks I stalk(follow their journals) - not in the weird way lol.
How to view someone's tank journal:
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Start by clicking on their name.
That overview pops up, click on barcode
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Next This image pops up. On the list under tank journals you will see their journals for different tanks they may have. Click on one of them and it brings you to their journal.
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@tribbitt I hope you don't mind I used yours for demonstration purposes. It's a bit more steps involved in viewing your own, as that doesn’t pop up when you click your own name.
To start a tank journal of your own:
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Tell us about your tank or tank build
www.bareefers.org
The easy way is click the link above this ^^^, top right of page click "post thread" than your on your way.
(Alternatively once on the tank journal page you can simply scroll through and check out just about anyones set up.)
There are multiple ways to get to these things I just wanted to make it effortless for you.