A description of my aquarium.
I use Core7 Triton method in order to maintain most of my parameters
The aquarium is around 310 L water
Heavy stocked with both hard and soft corals and 5 clams
40+ fish in small and middle sized fish
The filtration
A reversed deep sand bed
Refugium (the DSB is in the refugium)
Oversized Skimmer
Chaeto reactor
Oxidator
No WC for around 3 years
Additatives
Daily add of iron, strontium, iodine, vanadium, manganese and boron. I´m adding 1.6 ml of Triton Boron at 20,:07 every evening.
small adding of ethanol below the DSB - around 2 ml 4% a day
Triton IPC around every 3:th month. Dosing mostly after their instructions after test
The alkalinity part of the Core7 Triton method will rise the pH - therefore I have for a some years always add it during night time when my pH tends to drop. Before the 11 th of march - I run the Core7 3a+b dosing between 22:00 and 12:00, Ph swing around 0.21 as highest. Max pH 8,41 - lowest 8.2
In the end of this period - lowest daily pH was slowly rising. During march I also lowered my max light during the day to 75 % intensity (of the one I had before). This was because I had some starting small Cyano patches that I did not get totally rid of. NO3 around 4 - 5 and Phosphorous between 0.05 and 0.1. When I lowered my light intensity - I was afraid that I would affect the growth of my corals. I did a serie of measurements of my KH drop during the time I did not dose Core 7 3a+b. Between 12:00 and 20:00 - my system consume around 1 dKH in alkalinity - it responds to a limestone (CaCO3) production or/and precipitation of around 5 g during this time. I redo the measurements after I had lower my light with 25 % in intensity - I was expected a lower production or/and precipitation of CaCO3 - but the result was the opposite
Alkalinity switch before 25/2 - 100 % light
After the 25/2 - note between the 26/2 and late 2/3 - no measurements because that I was out of home.
continue
Around the 16/3 - the measurements was nearly the same- However I had shortened the period during I add Core7 3a+b
My conclusion is that lowering the light intensity in my aquarium did not negative affect my calcification rate during the period from 12:00 to 20:00 - more likely the opposite. I was probably in a situation of photoinhiberation before.
To be continued soon
Sincerely Lasse
I use Core7 Triton method in order to maintain most of my parameters
The aquarium is around 310 L water
Heavy stocked with both hard and soft corals and 5 clams
40+ fish in small and middle sized fish
The filtration
A reversed deep sand bed
Refugium (the DSB is in the refugium)
Oversized Skimmer
Chaeto reactor
Oxidator
No WC for around 3 years
Additatives
Daily add of iron, strontium, iodine, vanadium, manganese and boron. I´m adding 1.6 ml of Triton Boron at 20,:07 every evening.
small adding of ethanol below the DSB - around 2 ml 4% a day
Triton IPC around every 3:th month. Dosing mostly after their instructions after test
The alkalinity part of the Core7 Triton method will rise the pH - therefore I have for a some years always add it during night time when my pH tends to drop. Before the 11 th of march - I run the Core7 3a+b dosing between 22:00 and 12:00, Ph swing around 0.21 as highest. Max pH 8,41 - lowest 8.2
Alkalinity switch before 25/2 - 100 % light
My conclusion is that lowering the light intensity in my aquarium did not negative affect my calcification rate during the period from 12:00 to 20:00 - more likely the opposite. I was probably in a situation of photoinhiberation before.
To be continued soon
Sincerely Lasse
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