Here's the first set of numbers. Tank ran w/o a skimmer for about two days, so this may affect the test results.
Pre-dosing 30 Sep:
Temp - 79.8F
Sp Gr - 1.026
Salinity - 35 ppt
pH - 8.2
Ammonia - 0 ppm
Nitrite - 0 ppm
Nitrate - 8 ppm
Phosphate - 0 ppm
Magnesium - 1480 ppm
dKH - 10.6
Alkalinity - 3.77
Calcium - 470 ppm
3 Oct:
Temp - 78.9F
Sp Gr - 1.026
Salinity - 35 ppt
pH - 8.2
Ammonia - 0 ppm
Nitrite - 0 ppm
Nitrate - 10 ppm
Phosphate - 0 ppm
Magnesium - 1490 ppm
dKH - 10.6
Alkalinity - 3.77
Calcium - 480 ppm
Other than swapping out the Vertex pellets for GFO in my reactor and changing of the skimmer, no other dosing (kalk, calcium, alk, or other supplements) have been added.
Also, a side note: A lot of posters on Reef Central posted that they had cloudiness in their water for a day or three and that all of their corals sucked in. I ended up dosing the minimum dose of 50 ml of pellets per 100 L of water, and I never saw this. The whole bag of 500 ml of pellets d/n really fit in the Phosban 150 unit. 250ml was the best fit, which also constituted the min dose for my system. I also soaked the pellets in RO water overnight per the instructions. I'm thinking that they went gonzo on the dosage and clouded their water or didn't presoak.
So, right now this is snake oil. However, the bag and the web site say that it may take a while to begin working.
And there it is.
Kev