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As the health of the world’s coral reefs hold at a delicate balance, regulations for coral exportation become stricter and more limited. We strive to bring you the healthiest and most colourful aquarium-cultured corals possible, having very little impact on the natural environment. The majority of our corals have been cultivated in aquarium conditions for many years. We promise to only ship corals that we as hobbyists would be pleased to receive ourselves.
Please do away with the bubble videos of you guys. I’d much rather just watch a split screen with occasional b roll! Outstanding video though! First one I’ve watched from you. Subbed.
Love this one and the whole podcast, thanks Adam for all you do. Has slowly turned into my favorite listens when it comes to reefing. Love Chris but I can’t help but notice every podcast he’s on when speaking about light in relation to nutrients, it seems as if the entire hobby feels the exact opposite. Higher nutrients can handle more light as opposed to vice versa, what’s Chris seeing that no one else is😂😂
My sac254 came back at 19..this is a new system, and when i transferred all my acros, they died within a couple weeks. Finally did an oceamo ms test and an ndoc and found that.
@@fraggarage5922 thx, I have a fish tank, that I hope will one day support coral,, Tubbs Stllata dropped over after 2 weeks so much progress to make,, the bar is quite low
Salem - If one removes a bucket of tank water and adds enough acid to that bucket to bring the pH down to 3.5 for 12 hours, would there be any impact to DOCs? Randy Holmes Farley has a method for reducing tank Alkalinity in which one prepares a water change, adds acid (seachem acid buffer, for example), and then aerates the water before performing the water change. The acid converts alkalinity into CO2 and the aeration brings the pH back up by off gassing the CO2. I’ve used this method and have been wondering how, if at all, the acid addition and the temporary low pH impacts the bacteria population and DOCs (now that you’ve highlighted their importance).
This, is why I just dose Kalk, I’m exhausted just reading this. Love Randy,, why are you targeting PH3.5 for 12 hrs? I’m still listening maybe that is coming up soon.
@@Fish_Ventura 3.5 pH isn’t a target, that just happens to be what I’ve measured the pH to go down to when I add the amount of Seachem’s acid buffer necessary to reduce alkalinity from 10 to 0.
Ultimately, what I have in mind is a sort of “water treatment facility” next your tank. An unconnected container of possibly 10% of your tank’s water volume that you treat to remove DOCs (possibly bacteria as well) and then you use this water for your water change and you fill the container back up with the tank water you took out. Rinse and repeat. The upshot is to get some of the benefits of a new water change (low DOCs/bacteria) with water that has the exact element profile of the water in your tank while saving lots of money on salt mixes, element adjustments, RODI, etc. Maybe a temporary acidic environment won’t provide any benefit or there are downsides that outweigh the benefit, but possibly there are other beneficial treatments that can only be done only outside of the tank in such a “water treatment facility”. Possibly there is a use case for something like hydrogen peroxide to remove parasites, but obviously there would need to be a way to neutralize/remove the hydrogen peroxide after it performs its water treatment function.
acidification has impact on Alkalinity (carbonate species are converte dinto CO2 and this is driven off) and thus on inorganic carbon. DOC is not affected by acidification.
@@timjohnson3913 I think turf scrubbers may be worse - I believe at one point I read an article that illustrated that turf algea also produced compounds that inhibit coral growth on top of the DOC - I will have to double check and go down that rabbit hole - in terms of phosgaurd it binds to tons of traces
Is there any crossover between the components that make up alkalinity (mostly carbonate and bicarbonate, but there are many others) and the components that make up DOCs?
Im hearing what we thought in the 2000s, halides and kalk just work. We make things so hard on ourselves theses days. My sps tank in 2003 was so so easy. 15k DE halides, kalk, skimmer, live rock, cheato, water changes. No traces, no dinos, no issues, just fast easy growth.
Great episode! I'm currently catching up and listening from the beginning. I think the PAR meter Ryan was talking about that hooks to your phone is the ITC PARwise. I have one. Love it!
Bill Wann is the Wisconsin gentleman with the 20,000 gallon tank whose name Adam couldn't remember in the last minute of the podcast. www.youtube.com/@AquariumEng/videos
Adam I love your optimisim and guidance, wish I could buy corals from you but I’m stateside but I follow your advice and husbandry. My corals look awesome! 🙏🏼
He was selling massive chunky vivid insanity frags for <100$ when other vendors were literally charging 1K for a nub. Johnny knows what he is doing with aquaculture. Lots of nice tidbits in here. Thanks for another great interview Adam.
Next level stuff Johnny! Insanely well done! Not sure if I missed it, i didn’t hear about if you’re carbon dosing or not, and your thoughts on it? Thanks!
