I had a very low ph in champs tank about a month ago and I used the alk buffer and his has stayed between 7.2-7.6, just now its 7.6 so that seemed to work…. The Camera Optics Module of KH-7 consists of three cameras: a single strip camera, a stellar camera, and an index camera. Just like distilled water, you want to mix RO/DI water with your tap water to ensure there is at least some KH and GH. The RO/DI water will reduce your KH proportionately to how much you mix in. The Dakar Rally hopes to mandate zero-emission vehicles by 2030, and the introduction of Mission 1000 is designed to be an early step towards that goal. Mission 1000 will consist of a dozen vehicles that follow the main Dakar Rally, but will compete on a separate 100-kilometre course.

Who knew keeping goldfish could be so difficult! Next time someone offers free fish, I think I’ll politely decline. The problem is that I am attached to these things now more than the kids are. We believe that our experience can contribute to innovation in a sector such as highly sensitive freight transport for sustainability and that it cannot benefit from other energies such as electricity,” Criado commented. “After so many Dakars there are still challenges. Every year is a new motivation, every year the race is different, the route is always secret and you do not know until the day fifteen minutes before the start so that nobody can cheat. Therefore the challenge is to finish the race, which not everyone does, and obviously also try to reach the best possible classification. This race is our life.” If you have a saltwater tank, it’s basically expected that you will have one of these units nearby. 4. Indian almond leafWhile the set-up costs may be pricey, it will save you a considerable amount of money in the long term, especially if you buy bottles of distilled water each week.

I do understand that if I use the neutral reg to get my PH to 7 if my KH isn’t on point then getting it to 7 won’t last so I’m thinking I need to test my KH first and then that would determine which one I use? I got her to replace my poor sassy. Her readings seem to be doing just great as for the way you describe how a fish in cycle will go. i understand I need the water to turn yellow from blue… however, would I keep adding drops at this until I get a BRIGHT yellow? I have tried the test once before and when it turned yellow is was SO pale like the 6.0 ph pale yellow so I don’t think that would be the completion of the best LOL/ add KH solution 1 drop at a time, making sure to count the number of drops added. Cap and invert after each dropHaving a stable pH that is a little high is much better than a pH that swings up and down all the time. How do you test the KH of your aquarium? Each GAMBIT-1 satellite was about 4.5m (15ft) long, 1.5m (4ft 11in) wide, weighed about 523kg (1,153lb), and carried about 914m (2,999ft) of film. [3] The KH-7 GAMBIT was an overall success, even with some failures; thus providing National Reconnaissance Office and the President with quality intelligence collection. Following KH-7 projects had greatly improved major upgrades in the spacecraft and its camera systems. I cannot seem to get the ammonia down. I do regular water changes of about 10% of the tank. I got a gravel vac and have used it twice in the past 2 weeks. We have a whole home soft water system, so any tap water I add sits out for 24 hrs before the change. KH is invisible. While it exists in your water, you won’t be able to know how much is there without a special test kit.

The goal should be to cycle your aquarium. This process allows beneficial bacteria to grow in your tank that help break down the ammonia on their own. I have a fish-in cycle guide that breaks all this down into easy to understand chunks. Many water supplies across America have a KH high enough that performing a water change will replenish the KH levels in your freshwater tank. I have recently (8 days ago) setup a 125 gallon aquarium as a tetra (Diamond, Gold, and Neon) only tank…no fish have been added to the tank yet. I have NEVER had ammo readings in his tank as I’ve had him about 8 months and believe he’s cycled. I don’t know why the sudden PH swings. That isn’t normal at all. In 5 days it went from 7.2 to 6.0 and its very light so with the API master kit only showing the light yellow even if it’s below that scares me. As you might expect, it will release all three of these elements into your aquarium, raising both the KH and GH of your tank.A feasibility study for the Geodetic Orbital Photographic Satellite System reveals three subsystems for U.S. optical reconnaissance satellites in the 1960s: the Orbital (or Orbiting) Control Vehicle (OCV), the Data Collection Module (DCM), and the Recovery Section (RS). [4] For the KH-7, the DCM is also called the Camera Optics Module (COM), and is integrated in the OCV, which has a length of 5.5m (18ft) and a diameter of 1.52m (5ft 0in). [5] Camera Optics Module [ edit ] Carbonate hardness is referred to as KH for short. It’s basically a measure of carbonates (CO3) and bicarbonates (HCO3) dissolved in your water. I tested our tap water that same day and the KH is 18 dkH and our RO water is 8 dKH. The RO filter was changed a few months ago and it might be due for a change. That might be the reason there is still a KH of 8 dKH in supposedly “pure water.” It’s actually possible for your tap water to have a really high GH and a very low KH. So, just having a high GH does not automatically mean that you also have a high KH. Why is KH important to your aquarium?

To put it simply, acid buffers convert KH to carbon dioxide ( CO2). The result is a reduced KH and a lower pH. How do I get it down?? The fish seem to be in okay health, but did notice them going to the surface more and one day 2 wks ago where they were darting around the tank on super speed. That’s when I did the gravel vac and a 20% change. added an ‘ammonia’ filter and changed the big carbon filter. Still no change in numbers. Really don’t want to kill these little guys off. The planet asks us for changes and we should not wait for an institutional reaction,” said Juvanteny at a media event on Wednesday. “We have to do it together and start now. We are an amateur team with the desire to do different, innovative things and thus contribute a small grain of sand on the planet which asks us to.”

In its summary report following the conclusion of the program, the National Reconnaissance Office concluded that the GAMBIT program was considered highly successful in that it produced the first high-resolution satellite photography, 69.4% of the images having a resolution under 0.91m (3ft 0in); its record of successful launches, orbits, and recoveries far surpassed the records of earlier systems; and it advanced the state of the art to the point where follow-on larger systems could be developed and flown successfully. The report also stated that Gambit had provided the intelligence community with the first high-resolution satellite photography of denied areas, the intelligence value of which was considered "extremely high". [1] In particular, its overall success stood in sharp contrast to the two first-generation photoreconnaissance programs, Corona, which suffered far too many malfunctions to achieve any consistent success, and SAMOS, which was essentially a complete failure with all satellites either being lost in launch mishaps or returning no usable imagery.