How Does This Look For Coral Selection/placement?

[Truck]

omg that looks wicked!

can't wait to see how it goes!

good luck mate, and i hope all goes smoothly

thanks bagu, your not the only one who cant wait

 

[bagu]

omg that looks wicked!

can't wait to see how it goes!

good luck mate, and i hope all goes smoothly

thanks bagu, your not the only one who cant wait

hehe

when are you planning on getting the LR etc?

 

[Truck]

omg that looks wicked!

can't wait to see how it goes!

good luck mate, and i hope all goes smoothly

thanks bagu, your not the only one who cant wait

hehe

when are you planning on getting the LR etc?

next 6 weeks or so, when ive got the money (paper round )

 

[bagu]

ooooooo

hopefully you'll get it before then hehe, ask for a raise

are you making the water yourself?

 

[Truck]

ooooooo

hopefully you'll get it before then hehe, ask for a raise

are you making the water yourself?

RO from LFS im salting it in a but myself

 

[rabbut]

Thats the best way LFS's will use whatever salt is cheapest when they are ready to mix their RO. This usualy means poor quality salt and lots of stuff lacking from their water (mine has 300ppm Ca, 1000ppm Mg and about 8dKH Alk. Alk is fine the other two are too low by a loooonnnnng way, and suppliments aren't cheap to fix it...). Any good brand of salt mixed from good fresh RO (with near zero TDS) will be far better for most reefers.

Excellent start Truck, good luck with it. You certainly seem to know what you are doing at this stage

All the best
Rabbut

 

[Truck]

cheers rabbut, if i were to buy it from my LFS they use reef crystals @ 1.025sg but its £7.50 for 5 gallons

could someone explain, precipitation, saturation and super saturation please?

 

[bagu]

mine at my LFS is £4.00 for 25litres!

salted and ready!

 

[Truck]

mine at my LFS is £4.00 for 25litres!

salted and ready!

its not all bad, my LFS charge 2p per litre of RO £2.50 for the hole tank

 

[-Nemo-]

cheers rabbut, if i were to buy it from my LFS they use reef crystals @ 1.025sg but its £7.50 for 5 gallons

could someone explain, precipitation, saturation and super saturation please?

A saturated Solution, is one which cannot dissolve anymore of a solid. If you were to try to add more solid, is would be left as a precipitate. To dissolve even more of the solid substance in the solution, you would end up with a super saturated solution, this can usually be done by heating the solution and then dissolving the solid into it, when the solution cools back down, the solid remains dissolved.

In short definitions:

Saturated: A solution that cannot have anymore of a solid dissolved into it
Super saturated: Having dissolved more of a solid than possible with normal conditions (Normal Conditions = Room temperature, standard pressure etc.)
Precipitation: The formation of a solid in a solution.

Hope that helps.

 

[VictorMeldrew]

2p a litre, wow that is cheap, i would be tempted to test the RO just to make sure its what you would normally expect to buy, that is very very cheap, i pay 10p and some shops around me even sell it for 15p but i would not pay that much. Good work so far

VM

 

[Truck]

2p a litre, wow that is cheap, i would be tempted to test the RO just to make sure its what you would normally expect to buy, that is very very cheap, i pay 10p and some shops around me even sell it for 15p but i would not pay that much. Good work so far

VM

its a new shop and the RO nit is 3 days old, i tested a litre with a TDS meter and its 0

 

[Truck]

cheers rabbut, if i were to buy it from my LFS they use reef crystals @ 1.025sg but its £7.50 for 5 gallons

could someone explain, precipitation, saturation and super saturation please?

A saturated Solution, is one which cannot dissolve anymore of a solid. If you were to try to add more solid, is would be left as a precipitate. To dissolve even more of the solid substance in the solution, you would end up with a super saturated solution, this can usually be done by heating the solution and then dissolving the solid into it, when the solution cools back down, the solid remains dissolved.

In short definitions:

Saturated: A solution that cannot have anymore of a solid dissolved into it
Super saturated: Having dissolved more of a solid than possible with normal conditions (Normal Conditions = Room temperature, standard pressure etc.)
Precipitation: The formation of a solid in a solution.

Hope that helps.

thanks thats cleared things up

 

[rabbut]

£2-50 is what work charges for a barrel of Fresh RO. This is about the going rate arround here for fresh. 0TDS is the ideal reading from a membrane, but not one achievable with an old membrane... That's ideal water there Truck for making water with.

£7-50 a drum for stuff made from Reef Crystals isn't too bad when you work out the cost of making it. The going rate round here for a barrel of salt RO is £5, but it is usualy poor quality salt used. Reef Crystals is supposed to be one of the better salt mixes.

All the best
Rabbut

 

[Truck]

i mixed some RO with some reef crystals to 1.025 and the MG read at 1300 calcium 450 and KH9 Alk 3.5