What have your idea become Randy

[Superlightman]

Hello Randy,

I found this old post of yours,what has this idea become, and what was this product?

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[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

The link doesn’t work well, but I presume the idea you meant was my idea to grow hard corals faster, and the idea was to put an anionic polymer into the water to block precipitation of calcium carbonate to allow much higher alk and maybe calcium to be stable.

That part works. In test tube experiments I could push alk very high without precipitation in the presence of polyacrylate. It lays down on bare calcium carbonate and prevents it from acting as a seed crystal for precipitation.

At the time, folks didn’t seem to want to push up alk and growth, and SPS folks mostly were going lower, not higher, with a focus on 6.5 to 8 dKH.

Testing for safety and efficacy would have have been very time consuming, so I dropped it.

But I still think it’s a decent idea to try if fast growth is a goal.

 

[Superlightman]

I think this was a great idea if we can double the coral growth! What could be the safety issue,it seems high kh not pose problems if the nutriments are not too low.Brs tv test with high kh showed very positive issues.
Maybe people would be more open mind for this now?