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I haven't but a water change is due so will test it. I'm using Red Sea blue bucket so hoping that shouldn't be an issue.Have you tried meassure PO4 in your newly mixed saltwater?
I've got 2 cleaner shrimp, a few trochus and a couple of hermits all doing okay.
Okey. That's a good start. Test NO3 and KH also. Good to know.I haven't but a water change is due so will test it. I'm using Red Sea blue bucket so hoping that shouldn't be an issue.
That's interesting about copper.OK - it will rule out my concerns about copper - low copper concentrations is excellent in order to keep algae out - but it will hit shrimps, hermits and snails too
Sincerely Lasse
Blue bucket is nearly the same (if not the same) as you use. It is the PRO that have KH above 11 dKH.I think the Red sea blue bucket is a bit higher in KH?
Not all SPS corals do well in higher nutrients. I saw the same reaction just a month ago when the PO4 got up to 0,24ppm in an experiment tank with different Acroporas.
I lowered the phosphate and the corals seems to heal well at the moment.
That´s true - but what does both the zoox and coral animal use this carbohydrates to - why does they need energy?The only thing that truly "feeds" a coral is the light that has the zoox create sugars for the coral to use as energy
If the OP is worried about depleting PO4 with water changes AND wants to get the benefit of trace elements from fresh saltwater a good move would be to dose the new saltwater with PO4.IMO - you are in a crossroad just now. Everyone (but not me - at least not totally) is convinced of some lack of trace compounds (or lack of nutrients others than N and P (NO3 and PO4) @Sallstrom (who is a wise guy sometimes -during normal situations - we work together - i know him well) point out too high PO4. IMO - it could be this way and a serie of WC can change the situation for you. However - if you follow that road - watch your corals closely and looks if they get better. If not any signs of better health during a week - you should maybe run back to the crossroad - sell your soul to the devil (me) and dose PO4. . it is a long shot - maybe it is wiser to test WC first if there is a deficiency of any other type of compounds.
Sincerely Lasse
Without taking a side here I'm curious did Veron do this kind of research? I thought he was involved more in taxonomy. Certainly he can also make an assumption I'm just curious.I understand that N and P are discharged in humans and most plants. If we are going to use other animals and false equivalency, then we should at least use a host situation where the host can recycle the N and P for the symbionts. I guess that the human example is the machine recycling the humans in the battery farm in The Matrix. Again, choosing to believe the PHD on this one...
Ocean is 1or 2 ppb of P and .01 N, which nearly nobody in captivity gets to...the Zeo people are even lower, so measuring residuals gets you nowhere, but I guess that people don't really know how to judge throughput.
And i would love to see that paper that says that the host take N and P from its on flesh and give it to symbionts. If that happen - the host will be smaller and smaller and at last disappear and you have a free dinoflagellate.host situation where the host can recycle the N and P for the symbionts.
Here is my new one.OP can you send a pic of your old light schedule and your new one?
I can’t get access to the actual values on eddies for some reason. What do your whites max out at now?Here is my new one.
The old one was maxed out V and UV, RB 120, B 100, R 6, G 6, W30.
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