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hmmmmm not rodi? Id give the rodi a shot.with distilled water.
I have to clean the glass maybe once a week. Tds of water and ice water was around 30-40 ppm and needed to drop that number. Feed corals and fish every other day with a very heavy feeding. Half a cube of brine and about a 1/4 tsp of reef roids with phyto.
total dissolved solidsCurious as to what TDS stands for?
no, a tds meter checks the ro or fresh water source for minerals and solids. stuff you dont want in the tank. you check before you mix it.So a tds meter instead of a refractometer for salinity?
understood. try changing brands..... search on distilled here, some even say the walmart blue top.So I don't have access to an RO/DI system. My best chance for 0 tds is distilled water right now.
I have to say no. Some years ago my "trusted water source" was slowly but surely killing my reef. bought a tds meter. switched water. fine and bounced back. first thing to happen was corraline growth. less odd algaes.If your water was "bad" they would die quickly.
That is exactly what I was going to say.Well, from earlier posts looks like results from a Triton test are coming soon, would be interested to see what may be in there. It probably seemed a little too black in white from my previous post, so let me rephrase.... corals that die slowly (over the course of weeks or months) and 0 nitrate and phosphate is likely starvation. It didn't sound like the OP was using tap water, I actually didn't get what the TDS reading was all about, but distilled water by definition should be 0 TDS. If the OP is testing distilled water at 30-40 ppm TDS then either the TDS meter is wrong or the manufacturer for that brand they are using should be sued.
Anyway, heavy metals or other contaminants just didn't seem as likely to me as just having a 10 month old tank with a light bio load and simply not enough nutrients to sustain the corals.
DCurious as to what TDS stands for? Top dead center is what I'm familiar with. And ice water? Wouldn't ice shock the fish and coral a bit? Reef roids 1/4 tsp seems like a lot you have a smaller tank don't you.? Ware does the phytoplankton come from? And no reason to use distilled water... Rodi water, purified water maybe, tap water with a declorinator in it works too never heard of distilled
I think we as humans tend too missunderstand an issue that is fundamental to growing corals. That we are actually feeding both and animal and a plant! This isn't like feeding one or the other. Both organisms require their fundamental nutrients to survive. The zooxanthellae require nutrients like algae and plants do... NO3 and PO4. The coral requires a source of carbon (i.e. Planktonic food predated upon) to provide the required elements to produce new tissue and actually grow! You can provide a minimum of requirements and your corals may just exist, rather than slowly starve. Or you can feed both the animal and the plant aspects and you will see active growth and recovery.
Save your reef dude, dose NO3. You can address Total Dissolved Solids and make up water later. Just my $.02.
Well, from earlier posts looks like results from a Triton test are coming soon, would be interested to see what may be in there. It probably seemed a little too black in white from my previous post, so let me rephrase.... corals that die slowly (over the course of weeks or months) and 0 nitrate and phosphate is likely starvation. It didn't sound like the OP was using tap water, I actually didn't get what the TDS reading was all about, but distilled water by definition should be 0 TDS. If the OP is testing distilled water at 30-40 ppm TDS then either the TDS meter is wrong or the manufacturer for that brand they are using should be sued.
Anyway, heavy metals or other contaminants just didn't seem as likely to me as just having a 10 month old tank with a light bio load and simply not enough nutrients to sustain the corals.
I think we as humans tend too missunderstand an issue that is fundamental to growing corals. That we are actually feeding both and animal and a plant! This isn't like feeding one or the other. Both organisms require their fundamental nutrients to survive. The zooxanthellae require nutrients like algae and plants do... NO3 and PO4. The coral requires a source of carbon (i.e. Planktonic food predated upon) to provide the required elements to produce new tissue and actually grow! You can provide a minimum of requirements and your corals may just exist, rather than slowly starve. Or you can feed both the animal and the plant aspects and you will see active growth and recovery.
Save your reef dude, dose NO3. You can address Total Dissolved Solids and make up water later. Just my $.02.