Chemistry

[Dan Ponchak]

From fat overfed/overstocked beautiful lps to currently acro dominant. I’ve had my parameters stable at a wide range. They are currently stable and I’m more than pleased with my sticks. Probably need to get to an Acroholics Anonymous meeting[emoji2957]. So here’s my query: Has anyone published whether consumption of alk, calcium, and magnesium have an optimum consumption ratio for acropora? If so, could you post the link please and thank you.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

If I understand your question correctly, There is not one.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-06/rhf/index.php

 

[Dan Ponchak]

If I understand your question correctly, There is not one.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-06/rhf/index.php

Bummer. Maybe someone might have noticed that when they refill their dosers that their corals look best when there’s an identifiable pattern to their relative consumption.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Bummer. Maybe someone might have noticed that when they refill their dosers that their corals look best when there’s an identifiable pattern to their relative consumption.

Read the article.
That’s not how it works.

 

[jda]

The only way to get close is to melt the same kind of material that you are growing... so using acropora skeletons in a CaRx when growing acropora. Even then, my clams and the coralline algae will get the whole balance out of whack and I have to true-up the levels every few months. With a doser, the best that you might be able to do is figure out something for your own tank.

Dr Holmes-Farley's 2 Part and 3 Part recipes are as balanced as he can make them where you use the same amount of both, but even then, they are not 100% and need adjusted.

Also, most people who have really stable tanks and really notice things like this oft move to CaRx, so any data that you might pull from replies would likely need sifted through for reliability and tank stability with new/young tanks.

 

[Dan Ponchak]

Read the article.
That’s not how it works.

Wow, An amazing paper, but way over my head. Thank you for the direction.

 

[Dan Ponchak]

The only way to get close is to melt the same kind of material that you are growing... so using acropora skeletons in a CaRx when growing acropora. Even then, my clams and the coralline algae will get the whole balance out of whack and I have to true-up the levels every few months. With a doser, the best that you might be able to do is figure out something for your own tank.

Dr Holmes-Farley's 2 Part and 3 Part recipes are as balanced as he can make them where you use the same amount of both, but even then, they are not 100% and need adjusted.

Also, most people who have really stable tanks and really notice things like this oft move to CaRx, so any data that you might pull from replies would likely need sifted through for reliability and tank stability with new/young tanks.

Thank you. That was the concept I was trying to pursue.