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In my previous tank I used it just for the last few month before it crashed...I love your videos, good work. Brutal coral growth. In your previous tank you also used a zeolite reactor? Don't you use any FM food for your corals?
So you are using 100 grams/100 liters and 100 lt/h every 100 grams?I follow exactly the Fauna Marin HTU.
Whats the problem with your nutrients?
I use that amount yes, but no idea about the lt/h ratio, as I use a Skimz ZAR 127. There is no possibility to change the flow setting. In my old tank I had the same problem with depot aswell, it was impossible to lower them with zeolith or any other filtration method. Even 95% water exchange didn't help anything. Do you use Min S?So you are using 100 grams/100 liters and 100 lt/h every 100 grams?
My nutrients is a bit unstable expecially on po4 side but i'm coming from a depot problem.
Nitrates after 6 months of dosing seems stabilizing around 8 ppm now.
I'm using Bacto Energy to try to stabilize a bit but for now the po4 is going up (0.15 ppm). Seems it's my depot still coming from the rocks and transformed to bio mass making it measurable.
The new min s solved 50% of my nutrient problem in my old tank. Po4 came down from 0.24 to 0.10!At the moment no Min S but i've the new and the old on my products collection. For you it can help?
I've used in the past and seems that with low po4 it dark the corals. Maybe with some po4 it works betterThe new min s solved 50% of my nutrient problem in my old tank. Po4 came down from 0.24 to 0.10!
why do you think that Po4 can be skimmed out of the water?I'm doing FM ICP test every month to get all params in check. On my last ICP po4 detected was very low (0.02) but using adsorber. So, i've tryied to dose some bacto energy (carbon source) leaving adsorber in the filter over time (i think now they're saturated) and po4 goes up very quickly to 0.12 causing some issues on corals. Now, in according with FM i'm using less bacto energy because seems dosing it bacteria get out po4 depot from the rocks and move it to the water column where i can detect them.
So the strategy seems: dose carbon source very slowly and maintain the value of po4 with adsorber for the moment. When the depot start to lower his effect i think i can reduce adsorber until i've removed it completely and maintain the inorganic values only with cabon source.
Min s i think it contains oil based carbon source and amino acids that it boost bacteria.
The very strange effect from my depot transformed to po4 is that in theory it should be skimmed off instead to accumulate to po4 but skimmer runs without extract too much.
By Phosphorous accumulator bacteria. Bacteria needs po4 to create their "structure", eat nitrogen and carbon and dead. After they removed from the system by the skimmer. Or is fantasy?why do you think that Po4 can be skimmed out of the water?
By Phosphorous accumulator bacteria. Bacteria needs po4 to create their "structure", eat nitrogen and carbon and dead. After they removed from the system by the skimmer. Or is fantasy?