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One of my Facebook groups has been ranting and raving about air scrubbing working miracles on there tanks. Quite a few members saying they have instantly seen coral growth and clear water?
From what I understand it's simply adding fine air at night to your tank. 10 hrs the first week and the dropping down to 3 hrs.
Has anybody heard or tried this?
Here's some info from my group.
Exploring the Innovative
Twenty-First-Century Reefing
Elegant Corals, LLC's research, in the reefing hobby, focuses on new types of reef keeping and coral propogation for the 21st century as well as development of remote coral propogation systems. In recent years, we have been devoting our efforts toward research on the application of microbubbles and nanobubbles in the reefing field to help accelerate growth and increase health and viability in corals and other marine organisms.
Microbubbles and nanobubbles are incredibly small bubbles measuring 50 μm (0.05 mm) or less in size"”to understand just how small this is, one might note that the diameter of a human hair is approximately 70 to 80 μm.
Standard bubbles rise to the top of the liquid, burst upon reaching the surface and disappear; however, microbubbles and nanobubbles have very low volumes and buoyancies, enabling them to remain for long periods of time inside the liquid. Furthermore, these tiny bubbles dissolve readily, enabling more efficient utilization of oxygen and other such gases. Due to the unique properties that differentiate these bubbles from standard varieties, they have been receiving increasing attention lately throughout a wide variety of fields and are already being applied widely"”for example, in wastewater treatment and cleaning of water supply pipes and industrial components in industrial operations, for oyster farming and cleaning before shipment in the marine products industry, etc.
Just what uses might these tiny bubbles have in the reefing industry? Let's start with the example of artificially farmed acropora and montipora species growing: When comparing the use of flow and turbulence with microbubbles and nanobubbles to deliver oxygen in a culture solution, we know that the latter approach achieves 10%"“15% improvements in growth, calcification, and color. Depending on the type of coral, increased growth rates can also be achieved, which reduces harvesting and grow times. Although RO is commonly utilized as top off water and makeup water, current reverse osmosis water and the aquarium water in a typical reef system, oxygen concentrations are so low they approach 0% in certain locations. If this type of oxygen-poor water is used in coral growing and reef keeping, oxygen will not be sufficiently absorbed through the coral membranes, resulting in lowered intake of nutrients and water and overall poor and slow coral growth.
Microbubbles and nanobubbles can be effortlessly dissolved in the water column to supply oxygen and remedy this problem. This approach has already been put to use by some coral famers and hobbyists, and it is proving to be an effective means of remedying, chemical free, many common tank ailments and stunted coral growth.
Successful coral disease control is also a problem faced by many in in the reefing hobby. If a pathogen enters the culture solution, this infectious agent can spread throughout the entire system and cause widespread damage to coral frags and even other more mature coral colonies. Even in more enclosed, more germ-free reef system environments, this danger cannot be completely eliminated. Because the use of broad spectrum antibiotic chemicals in the reefing industry can be detrimental to the overall system, culture tanks, reefing apparatuses, panels and racks used for holding coral frags, and other such equipment must be sterilized each time using boiled water, chlorine-based materials, or other such means.
Since 2001, one of the founders of Elegant Corals, LLC, had been practicing this method even before we had the technology to record and test repeatedly what was happening... But our founder knew that SOMETHING was working then.
As technology increased and developed into what we have presently, such as , high speed microscopic cameras, computers, digital videography, and better understanding of the scoence of why bubbles form and their purpose in nature, we at Elegant Corals have built upon our founder's knowledge and continued down the rabbit hole of micro and nanobubble application in the reefing industry.
Elegant Corals, LLC of Chicago, publically announced and published it in the summer of 2015, the correct controlled generation and delivery methods of micro and nanobubbles in the reefing industry and reefing hobby.
As mentioned above, microbubbles and nanobubbles can accelerate coral, invertebrate and fish growth. Because sterilization and cleaning in reefing expends both time and money, acceleration of coral growth and reduction of sterilization-related labor can increase the number of annual harvests and bolster profits accordingly. Thus microbubble and nanobubble technology shows great potential, and the purpose of its use is stability in marine facilities and reefing industry operations. We engage in experimental reefing at our facility in order to better understand these effects and demerits while establishing a base field of knowledge as quickly as possible.
Recently, we have also been undertaking efforts based on the research theme of "œreefing for enjoyment and therapeutic purposes," which began with a focus on the growth of reefing in apartment complexes and similar urban environments as a form of interior decorating that creates a soothing, relaxing effect. While searching for aesthetically pleasing ways to shine lights in a marine aquarium for display purposes, some hobbyists have informed me that fish appetite increased, corals, placed under LED lighting, and invertebrate pod population, grew faster than usual.
Although many other hobbyists had doubts about this phenomenon at first, it became clear that that the overall health of many reef systems were healthier and the fish, corals, snails and other marine organisms had somehow grown bigger than those of other systems in the same given period of time (6 months so far); we, at Elegant Corals, LLC, are currently conducting research to discover the scientific explanations and to translate them into common knowledge.
The reefing industry had previously thought that bubbles (any size) hindered their growth and could create problems"”discoveries such as these, which force us to rethink our perceptions, are what make the research process so fascinating.
From what I understand it's simply adding fine air at night to your tank. 10 hrs the first week and the dropping down to 3 hrs.
Has anybody heard or tried this?
Here's some info from my group.
Exploring the Innovative
Twenty-First-Century Reefing
Elegant Corals, LLC's research, in the reefing hobby, focuses on new types of reef keeping and coral propogation for the 21st century as well as development of remote coral propogation systems. In recent years, we have been devoting our efforts toward research on the application of microbubbles and nanobubbles in the reefing field to help accelerate growth and increase health and viability in corals and other marine organisms.
Microbubbles and nanobubbles are incredibly small bubbles measuring 50 μm (0.05 mm) or less in size"”to understand just how small this is, one might note that the diameter of a human hair is approximately 70 to 80 μm.
Standard bubbles rise to the top of the liquid, burst upon reaching the surface and disappear; however, microbubbles and nanobubbles have very low volumes and buoyancies, enabling them to remain for long periods of time inside the liquid. Furthermore, these tiny bubbles dissolve readily, enabling more efficient utilization of oxygen and other such gases. Due to the unique properties that differentiate these bubbles from standard varieties, they have been receiving increasing attention lately throughout a wide variety of fields and are already being applied widely"”for example, in wastewater treatment and cleaning of water supply pipes and industrial components in industrial operations, for oyster farming and cleaning before shipment in the marine products industry, etc.
Just what uses might these tiny bubbles have in the reefing industry? Let's start with the example of artificially farmed acropora and montipora species growing: When comparing the use of flow and turbulence with microbubbles and nanobubbles to deliver oxygen in a culture solution, we know that the latter approach achieves 10%"“15% improvements in growth, calcification, and color. Depending on the type of coral, increased growth rates can also be achieved, which reduces harvesting and grow times. Although RO is commonly utilized as top off water and makeup water, current reverse osmosis water and the aquarium water in a typical reef system, oxygen concentrations are so low they approach 0% in certain locations. If this type of oxygen-poor water is used in coral growing and reef keeping, oxygen will not be sufficiently absorbed through the coral membranes, resulting in lowered intake of nutrients and water and overall poor and slow coral growth.
Microbubbles and nanobubbles can be effortlessly dissolved in the water column to supply oxygen and remedy this problem. This approach has already been put to use by some coral famers and hobbyists, and it is proving to be an effective means of remedying, chemical free, many common tank ailments and stunted coral growth.
Successful coral disease control is also a problem faced by many in in the reefing hobby. If a pathogen enters the culture solution, this infectious agent can spread throughout the entire system and cause widespread damage to coral frags and even other more mature coral colonies. Even in more enclosed, more germ-free reef system environments, this danger cannot be completely eliminated. Because the use of broad spectrum antibiotic chemicals in the reefing industry can be detrimental to the overall system, culture tanks, reefing apparatuses, panels and racks used for holding coral frags, and other such equipment must be sterilized each time using boiled water, chlorine-based materials, or other such means.
Since 2001, one of the founders of Elegant Corals, LLC, had been practicing this method even before we had the technology to record and test repeatedly what was happening... But our founder knew that SOMETHING was working then.
As technology increased and developed into what we have presently, such as , high speed microscopic cameras, computers, digital videography, and better understanding of the scoence of why bubbles form and their purpose in nature, we at Elegant Corals have built upon our founder's knowledge and continued down the rabbit hole of micro and nanobubble application in the reefing industry.
Elegant Corals, LLC of Chicago, publically announced and published it in the summer of 2015, the correct controlled generation and delivery methods of micro and nanobubbles in the reefing industry and reefing hobby.
As mentioned above, microbubbles and nanobubbles can accelerate coral, invertebrate and fish growth. Because sterilization and cleaning in reefing expends both time and money, acceleration of coral growth and reduction of sterilization-related labor can increase the number of annual harvests and bolster profits accordingly. Thus microbubble and nanobubble technology shows great potential, and the purpose of its use is stability in marine facilities and reefing industry operations. We engage in experimental reefing at our facility in order to better understand these effects and demerits while establishing a base field of knowledge as quickly as possible.
Recently, we have also been undertaking efforts based on the research theme of "œreefing for enjoyment and therapeutic purposes," which began with a focus on the growth of reefing in apartment complexes and similar urban environments as a form of interior decorating that creates a soothing, relaxing effect. While searching for aesthetically pleasing ways to shine lights in a marine aquarium for display purposes, some hobbyists have informed me that fish appetite increased, corals, placed under LED lighting, and invertebrate pod population, grew faster than usual.
Although many other hobbyists had doubts about this phenomenon at first, it became clear that that the overall health of many reef systems were healthier and the fish, corals, snails and other marine organisms had somehow grown bigger than those of other systems in the same given period of time (6 months so far); we, at Elegant Corals, LLC, are currently conducting research to discover the scientific explanations and to translate them into common knowledge.
The reefing industry had previously thought that bubbles (any size) hindered their growth and could create problems"”discoveries such as these, which force us to rethink our perceptions, are what make the research process so fascinating.
