[Reddog170]

Well I will buy some water for a water change as i do not have an RO/DI yet and now that I had to buy a new car today( wife totaled our car this morning, she is ok the car is toast) it will put off an ro/di, unless I can find a used one cheap, for a while. Ohh well setbacks cant really be helped and they just challange our ability to overcome the hurdles that we encounter. Being as I am addicted to the salt there aint no going back now.
Did get my water tested by an lfs today and the tests they ran came out like this, SG 1.024 Nitrates 0 PPM Nitrites 0 PPM Ammonia YIKES 1.2+ PH is high as well at 8.7. Water change is so needed. Fish are happy and colorful as they were when I put them in, just two damsels, eating good. Algae is almost out of control, am starting to get green hair algae now. I will NOT put anything else in until I have a ro/di and all the algae under cntrol.
Can anyone explain this vodka/sugar/vinager dosing I read about and what the benefits/bad points are. I just cant seam to come up with much there. I can find where people are doing all three or just some of them but not much as to what they do. I am sure it is here I just have not found it yet.
And last point I want to make tonight, If it were not for the people here I would have probably crashed my tank by now. So I want to thank everyone for all the help and advise. I also want to thank RS for keeping this place going and helping the new adicts umm I mean new reefers get going. Shaun