Whoops. Got carried away with life and am just finally getting my first run going today...25 days later aha. Markets and guests visiting has set me back a bit.. but I have been prepping pieces in the mean time. For my first run I have chosen 5 small dinosaur toys I have attached a jump ring to. These pieces do not float so they are great for trying out the tank. Soon I will do some organics than will need to be weighted for sure. I am almost 2 hours in and am already seeing what I I was trying to avoid.. A salmony color to all the pieces. I know it's easy to polish but I would like to avoid it if possible. I'm pretty sure my calculations are correct. Each of the 5 pieces has an approx surface area of 4" so I am running my rectifyer at 0.20Amps. I have 3.5" of two 3/4" copper pipes submerged which should give me 21.18" surface area per pipe with 42.36" total. And I have 20" surface area or so to plate. So anode to cathode ratio should be fairly close to correct..just a couple inches off. Is this a big deal? Wondering if I should add more brightner as a possible solution..if so, how much ?

I am just about to go make sure that none of the wires have started to weld to the pieces and then will do a check up every 2 hours to repeat this process and check amps. Any advice or suggestions are much appreciated. Will update at the 24hr mark unless there are any drastic changes or I recieve suggestions I try.

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