Dosing Lithium for bryopsis

[JWsticks]

There is a recent YouTube video from Triton stating increasing lithium to 1ppm would help tackle bryopsis. Does this impact SPS or algae in a refugium?

 

[mcarroll]

There is a recent YouTube video from Triton stating increasing lithium to 1ppm would help tackle bryopsis. Does this impact SPS or algae in a refugium?

AFAIK this is regurgitating speculating that used to surround Kent's Magnesium supplement.

Going from memory....it was the only thing that used to kill bryopsis and folks presumed for a long time that it was just elevated magnesium (1500ppm!) that was doing it.....then folks noticed no other Mg supplements worked the same.....then folks noticed there were import restrictions vs bringing the Kent product into Europe....then folks presumed from some clue I don't recall that the product had Lithium in it for some reason....then Kent reformulated the supplement (so they could export?) and it stopped working for "alt" purposes.

I don't remember this going beyond speculation though...never heard of anyone dosing lithium to test it.

Googling to find if anyone did test lithium wouldn't be hard if you're curious.

 

[JWsticks]

There is a recent YouTube video from Triton stating increasing lithium to 1ppm would help tackle bryopsis. Does this impact SPS or algae in a refugium?

AFAIK this is regurgitating speculating that used to surround Kent's Magnesium supplement.

Going from memory....it was the only thing that used to kill bryopsis and folks presumed for a long time that it was just elevated magnesium (1500ppm!) that was doing it.....then folks noticed no other Mg supplements worked the same.....then folks noticed there were import restrictions vs bringing the Kent product into Europe....then folks presumed from some clue I don't recall that the product had Lithium in it for some reason....then Kent reformulated the supplement (so they could export?) and it stopped working for "alt" purposes.

I don't remember this going beyond speculation though...never heard of anyone dosing lithium to test it.

Googling to find if anyone did test lithium wouldn't be hard if you're curious.

I bought an abalone yesterday to help with the bryopsis battle. It seems MAG flake used previously by reefers also had high lithium levels as an impurity.

Furthermore, 1ppm of lithium seems to have minimal impact to corals from what I've gathered so far from Google. I'll get some lithium chloride on hand in the case it is required.