It's not easy to address this many claims, so stay with me. In times like these, I've grown weary of letting people make baseless assertions. While this is just reefing, this kind of either willful conning or lazy disinformation is currently getting people killed in the pandemic, so I feel compelled.
With respect to Aquavitro, it's Vitamin C with chlorella algae. The trace elements contained within were reported because they were part of the algae. They were not added specifically for an effect as far as I can tell. Beating the dead horse here, but their presence does not indicate necessity or benefit.
With respect to salt mixes, just because salt mixes contain trace elements does not mean they are beneficial and/or necessary. I'm not disputing that there is rubidium in the ocean. I'm disputing that maintaining a level of rubidium in a reef tank is necessary or beneficial. When do we start dosing deuterium to our tanks 1 atom at a time? Definitely present in the ocean, probably present in trace trace trace levels in coral. Doesn't mean we should dose it.
I have incredibly strong doubt that seachem is sourcing rubidium and adding it to their salt. I don't know this for sure, but it seems to me that the way manufacturers probably make salt is just to evaporate seawater and then correct for anything that doesn't easily redissolve.
Right here is where he talks about not selling tin copper and silver because he isnt personally convinced of their efficacy.
Cmon. Nitrox is increased O2/decreased nitrogen in diving air. Not added N2O.....If you're going to just google to disprove me, read past the second line.
As always, I would happily change my opinion if presented with any kind of substantive data.
With respect to Aquavitro, it's Vitamin C with chlorella algae. The trace elements contained within were reported because they were part of the algae. They were not added specifically for an effect as far as I can tell. Beating the dead horse here, but their presence does not indicate necessity or benefit.
With respect to salt mixes, just because salt mixes contain trace elements does not mean they are beneficial and/or necessary. I'm not disputing that there is rubidium in the ocean. I'm disputing that maintaining a level of rubidium in a reef tank is necessary or beneficial. When do we start dosing deuterium to our tanks 1 atom at a time? Definitely present in the ocean, probably present in trace trace trace levels in coral. Doesn't mean we should dose it.
I have incredibly strong doubt that seachem is sourcing rubidium and adding it to their salt. I don't know this for sure, but it seems to me that the way manufacturers probably make salt is just to evaporate seawater and then correct for anything that doesn't easily redissolve.
I'm also not sure where he ever said "NOT" to increase copper or tin or silver? I pulled up his PDF document again out of curiosity, and searched for each of these in it. For silver it says "May be useful and enhancing on Coral tanks, will keep you guys updated". For tin, I actually see suggestions for supplementing it, but mentions in regards to his calculator: "Tin is not available yet for public and is in the testing phase." Lastly, for copper, it either says that it's provided by other things (food ,etc), or that it hasn't been experimented with enough. So I can't help but feel you're making some false claims about what he's actually suggesting.
And this is not because this is a selling product, there are other products such as Tin, Silver, Copper as individual products that did not make it to the Sales-Room simply because their effects as part of the method couldn't even convince me yet.
So it's not because it's driven by money, people who know me, know that ;-)
Right here is where he talks about not selling tin copper and silver because he isnt personally convinced of their efficacy.
Sorry - it is already invented - it is named enhanced air or Nitrox diving.
Sincerely Lasse
Cmon. Nitrox is increased O2/decreased nitrogen in diving air. Not added N2O.....If you're going to just google to disprove me, read past the second line.
As always, I would happily change my opinion if presented with any kind of substantive data.