best salt?

[Boomer]

OK :thumbsup:

 

[Boomer]

For your Eric reading pleasure


Tank Crash
http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic32610-9-1.aspx

Florida and NOAA
http://thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97701&highlight=noaa

 

[old salty]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9912348#post9912348 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by coralfish

As far as the best salt....you just have to find what works for best for your tank and your maintenance habits.

This advice should be made a sticky!!

 

[Rhodesholar]

Wow I don't know what to say about that. Wouldn't it have been easier to claim an equipment malfunction or just say I screwed up? I mean even Einstein had his "Biggest Blunder".

Ok, I'll help you as you are in need

I'll bet your a riot in a bowling alley. :lmao:

 

[Rhodesholar]

Boomer,

That was the article I was looking for that you posted, thank you. After looking all morning I found it and realized you posted it.

Here's another for interesting reading but this has to do with calcium carbonate saturation.

http://www.co2.ulg.ac.be/pub/tambutte_ et_al_1995.pdf

 

[Boomer]

I'll bet your a riot in a bowling alley.

Yah, you would have a good laugh since I don't bowl :lol:


Eric screw up

:rollface: :rollface: :rollface:

Come on now, it is Eric he can't screw

Word is it was really his top-of system that malfunctioned and was wife related

We ALL screw up and when doing so should not be trying to cover it up it takes away credibility. Eric "thinks" he can't and people should not "think" he can, as he is Eric.

Salty

I agree on that also. I just like picking on people at times to get them to THINK.

 

[coralfish]

Kolognekoral,

Why would you want to use a salt that you know doesn't have the required trace elements? If I know that Brand X doesn't have the required amounts of Ca or whatever, I won't use it. Or if Brand Y has too much Ca, I won't use it. Or if Brand Z mixes differently between batches, I won't use it. Also, if I test PO4 or NO3 when I test with RO/DI water, I don't use that salt.

I don't understand this. A marine salt should mix consistently all the time.

Also, tap water...if your salt mix can't make up for the elements that are required, by using RO/DI water, you need another salt mix.

 

[Kolognekoral]

Coralfish,

I think you misunderstood the theory. One doesn't purposefully use a poor product, but most of the salts on the European market (most are on the US market, as well) are of best quality. Only one or two have proved poor choices for myself, while others have excellent results with them.

The point is, there is no best salt to use. There are many excellent, yet not perfect, salts and rotating helps to assure that your aquarium gets a varied diet. I have yet to run into a salt that contained NO3 or PO4. This may be a local problem in the USA. I had assumed all salt from a particular brand are from the same source, but this may simply be false. Europe is a smaller market and that has some advantages in quality control.

Just because almonds are a perfect protien, and, theoretically one could live from them, they are hardly my idea of a good diet. I find variety is always a good choice.

 

[Rhodesholar]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9913129#post9913129 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Boomer
Rhode

No spin and is why he will not talk about it. If nothing happened or all matters where resolved why does he refuse to explain the know incident which is a matter of public record ?

Simple, my guess is his attorney told him not to.

 

[stony_corals]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9913129#post9913129 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Boomer
Stony

There is some anecdotal experience that higher levels of alk can cause RTN.

Yes, that is true, so call it "Alkalinity Burning" and may be to do with the higher OH-


Sure there'd be higher levels of CO2 but at higher pH would they all be bicarbonates?

No, as pH rises the bicarb is less and there is a rise in the carbonate with even less CO2 % wise. Bicarb is the highest % a pH of lower than 7.5 and steadily drops as pH goes up, being replaced by carbonate at higher pH's

With that said the question you have is for example;

pH 8.3, Alk 2.5 meq / = 0.42 ppm CO2 NSW

Ok lets just raise the pH to 8.5 = .23 ppm CO2

Now lets have that high pH of 8.5 and raise the Alk to 5 meq/ l= 0.46 ppm CO2. The same as NSW

Now lets keep that more normal pH of 8.3 and raise the Alk to 5 meq / l = .85 ppm CO2 almost double NSW.

If we go with the max Alk of 3.93 meq / l (11 dKH) and pH of 8.3 = 0.66 ppm CO2 or 65 % higher than NSW. [/B]

Boomer,
Is this alk burn, assuming it's caused by OH, only cause by using kalk? Or would this burning be caused by adding two part?

Good examples! Though this is assuming that the coral is obtaining CO2 from the water column versus a byproduct from coral respiration and calcification?

 

[Boomer]

The presence of symbiotic algae, that aids many corals grow, changes the rates at which the animals takes in ions from the water. CO3--, HCO3, Mg++ and Ca++ are ions

CO2 and its partial pressure effect photosynthesis and thus calcification in a scleractinian corals. CO2 effects cell-specific density and and elevated CO2 will/can reduce coral growth, even if they are not photosynthetic.

Let me know when you get done reading all of these

http://www.isse.ucar.edu/florida/references_nolinks.html

Is this alk burn, assuming it's caused by OH,

I'm assumning and do not have a leg to stand on

 

[stony_corals]

Thanks for the link... I'll have to dig all them up