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Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:03 am
by xvCODY
I'm pretty stoked. My LFS has pretty high prices on their mixed SW but it's made with RO water and mixed a few days ahead of time.

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:05 am
by xrayjeeper83
Do you plan on just adding SW to to the tank to make it brackish?

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:10 am
by xvCODY
I've already done the math and determined the amount of pure SW to raise my SG by .002 every time. It's something like 8ml of 1 gallon of salt water is 1.002sg so 16ml (whatever the exact measurement is) to raise the SG with a 50% WC

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:27 am
by xrayjeeper83
Glad your good at math LOL, I would fail horribly at that

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:12 am
by xvCODY
It was a weee bit confusing. lol. I have a whole page in my notebook just for the conversion and stuff.

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:33 am
by Pufferpunk

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:47 am
by xvCODY
I used that formula, plus my own.

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:57 am
by pufferfreak
Updates?

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:25 pm
by xvCODY
So far sitting at 1.004. Gonna do another WC Sunday and raise the SG again. Smudge is doing quite well, so are my BBGs. Their colors are great and they're really active. Everything is going great!

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:02 am
by sevenyearnight
*moonwalks*
^5

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:44 am
by pufferfreak
xvCODY wrote:So far sitting at 1.004. Gonna do another WC Sunday and raise the SG again. Smudge is doing quite well, so are my BBGs. Their colors are great and they're really active. Everything is going great!
That's good! Do you have pictures by chance? ;)

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:41 pm
by xvCODY
Hmm, i replied to this a couple of days ago but i guess i forgot to hit "Submit" haha. I've had a bit of a nasty cold the past few days so i've been lacking on this weeks WC. I did one today though and i'll snap some pictures of Smudge tomorrow and have them uploaded in the afternoon. I'll make sure to feed him first so he's extra vibrant. =D

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:43 pm
by xrayjeeper83
COdy could have been cause of the forum screw up

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:50 pm
by xvCODY
That's what i was thinking. I usually sit here until the page says "Reply submit complete" or whatever it really says. Oh well. It's posted now. haha

Re: Converting to brackish tomorrow

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:32 pm
by xvCODY
1.012 SG. Almost there! Gotta start looking around for LR. ugh