Last Friday Dave from Deer Park aquarium sent me a text asking me wth was bigglejuice as he had just had the sixth customer ask him if he could get it for them or knew what was in it - yeah right Dave
Whilst in the shop Saturday morning both Dave and Mark insisted they weren't making it up despite my polite suggestions otherwise. Then a guy walks in while i was annoying Mark and asks Dave for guess bloody what !
Mark was like ' i told you didn't i ! ' and we all had a crazy giggle together :lmao:
Do any of you seriously think i can dose a single solution once every morning for 11 weeks and feed the fish with no water changes and only a skimmer, matrix and a small bag of carbon and get results like this..........
You
bet
i
can.
Much rambling will be forthcoming this weekend and when i shut up i am confident that all of you will know why this hobby has been so hit and miss for everyone for so long. When you actually know what it is you are controlling with the method you have chosen to follow it will be become much easier to make it work for you.
I hope to make keeping colorful healthy corals much, much easier for everyone. As you can see it works amazingly well and i am 95% certain i know why but i want make sure i haven't lost my marbles so i will share my thoughts with you guys.
The key to success has never been about pigment production - you need only suppress one group of pigments in order to see the results i achieve and all of you deserve to see it too for all the time, money and heartache that you invest in the hobby.
Zooxanthellae are not the problem and keeping healthy populations ensures healthy growing corals. The problem with zoa is they use pigments to utilize light energy and since we can never match the nutrition available to our coral 24/7 on the reef they rely on zoa way too much. We throw lots of food and aminos and blah blah blah in trying to make the water full of goodness and what happens - bloody algae, cyano etc has a field day. So then we load up with all sorts of equipment and ideas like gfo etc to deal with that fallout but now the corals are losing the colors..........
If you could limit the amount of chlorophyll a zoa was able to replenish during lights on you would 'lighten' the zoa and thus allow more PUR to strike the acro tissue. You would in effect be 'unmasking' pigments and 'forcing' their production at the same time all while maintaining healthy populations of zoa.
Cyano, algae and zoa all have one thing in common - photosystems. If you were somehow able to inhibit photosystem I & II you would theoretically be able to both lighten zoa and inhibit the ability of photosynthetic organisms such as cyano and algae to produce the pigments that are critical to their survival. You would have a display with sparkling white sand, no problem algae and most important to all of us - bright colorful corals
So what do you think so far, sound crazy or implausible ? :reading:
