triton detox

Triggreef · Dec 27, 2014

It says to stop carbon and ozone for 3 days. I assume this means gac and is not referring to vinegar dosing? Denitrators need to be shut down?

Cory · Dec 27, 2014

Yes gac is carbon. They don't want it to remove the product for 3 days. Let us know if it works!

Randy Holmes-Farley · Dec 27, 2014

Right.

No need to turn off a denitrator that I can think if.

Triggreef · Dec 27, 2014

Ok so I dosed the product, took GAC off line, and am continuing to dose vinegar to denitrators, and tank as usual.

So Tues I will hook up a fresh reactor full of GAC. Here goes nothing.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Dec 27, 2014

Good luck.

Triggreef · Dec 29, 2014

Killing me to wait until Tuesday to put the gac back online. Taking everything I got to wait until morning. Lol

Randy Holmes-Farley · Dec 30, 2014

:lol:

Triggreef · Jan 4, 2015

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
:lol:

What do you suppose the rate of exhaustion on the GAC would be? I basically filled a 2 little fishies reactor about 3/4 full. 260g tank volume.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jan 4, 2015

I don't know how much of what is in detox, so I couldn't say.

But in a week, I'd expect the GACt has done most of what it is going to do to the added chelators.

Triggreef · Jan 4, 2015

OK I'll change it on day 7 then. I guess I'll probably give it another week and send out sample 2 to Triton.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jan 4, 2015

Sounds good.

Let us know what you find.

Fishinwall · Jun 27, 2015

Besides copper what does it remove? Will it remove aluminum?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jun 28, 2015

I do not know since they do not say what it is.

Fishinwall · Jun 28, 2015

I had a case of STN which has taken out 90% of my Sps. I was thinking of using this just to clean out any heavy metals. @Randy Holmes-Farley

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jun 29, 2015

Fishinwall said:
I had a case of STN which has taken out 90% of my Sps. I was thinking of using this just to clean out any heavy metals. @Randy Holmes-Farley

Did you get a Triton test to see if you have heavy metal issues?

Fishinwall · Jun 29, 2015

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
Did you get a Triton test to see if you have heavy metal issues?

No

I'm working towards a triton system. Slowly removing the sand from my refugium with every water change.

I just thought it couldn't hurt.

hart24601 · Jun 30, 2015

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
I do not know since they do not say what it is.

According to the reef builders article it's humic acid. How do you think this would work Randy?

"Activated carbon, GFO and resins can only remove these heavy metals down to the parts per billion. Short of having a massive phytoremediation setup with a substantial standing crop of macroalgae, you need to use a “adsorption amplifier” so that activated carbon and the like can actually remove these trace heavy metals.

Triton Detox is precisely this adsorption amplifier, consisting of extra pure humic acid, a large molecule that will actively take up and bind with free floating trace levels of heavy metals. After a few days of mixing in your tank water, you simply add activated carbon to remove the large humic acid molecules and you will have removed a good amount of the toxic heavy metals."

Read more: http://reefbuilders.com/2015/04/07/triton-detox-innovative-remove-trace-heavy-metals/#ixzz3eYH0WlSd

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jun 30, 2015

Interesting choice. Humic acids do naturally bind many metals in seawater, such as copper, which is almost completely bound to organics such as humic acids in natural seawater.

Aluminum will bind to humic acids under the right conditions. Not sure exactly how much that hppens in seawater.