And ... Today, two days in advance of the month precise precise Asdu began to take light.
an hour, still little, but enough to change the look of the living room after a month's pitch dark.
Now the photoperiod is increased, except for unpleasant surprises along the way, one hour per week up to a regime with 9 hours. This phase is probably the most hated and feared by the aquarist ... In fact, the various stages algae are there in ambush, and many times (hopefully that is not exactly this) even the month of darkness and the chemical values \u200b\u200b"right" are able to avoid.
I will keep you updated!
As for the chemistry of the tank, this month I have not added anything but supplements of calcium and magnesium to bring them to acceptable after the salt-Hw Wiedgant Marinemix professional I decided to use proved poor in these two elements.
I think it rocks, if of good quality and well "lives" they have everything you need to start a tank, and on this occasion, the nature seems to have given me reason.
The nitrates went from 50 mg of the day that I filled the tank from the current 4 mg / l, phosphate, from a peak of 0.80 mg / l were yesterday 0.36 mg / l, a value still very high for a marine tank and start giving light, but the elimination of "natural" phosphate in the aquarium is much longer than that in the nitrogen cycle and so I decided to use, even to give me a hand with the silicates very high (1.5 mg / l) some resins Forwater iron-based specifications for the removal of phosphates and silicates.
In less than 24 hours, the level of phosphate increased from 0.36 mg / l to 0.00 mg / l (both measurements were made with a photometer Martini), while for the silicates have to say that he had seen a great fall ...
But here in detail the chemical values \u200b\u200bmeasured this morning
- Temperature: +25.4 ° C.
- Salinity: 35 ppm.
- Ph: 8.05
- Light: 1 Hour
- Kh: 8.1
- No2: 0.00
- No3: 4
- Po4: 0.00
- Sio2: 1.5
- Ca: 435 Mg
- : 1140
See You Soon!