my rice experiment
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WTyson
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You dont want to cook the rice...... i would not go above 100 degrees F
Tonight marks two weeks since I put in a tablespoon of white rice in a bag and threw it in a chamber of my aquapod 12. Algea growth on my glass has almost been non existant. I have yet to clean the glass, although the corners could use it now. There was a small amount of gha on the outflow of a pump which is now gone. I have two small patches of bubble algea that are still there and my grape calurpa in the refugium is still growing. So far nothing negative. This last week I have been feeding more than I have ever before just to see if I can stimulate some bad algea growth, but nothing yet. Corals look good, but hard to say since I switched from pc lighting to a 70w 20k mh 6 weeks ago and the sps looks very dull. Some zoas lost color as well, but I hope with a little time color comes back.
noahm
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Somebody who has a meter, should do the following just for experiments sake. Take 1 cup of unwashed, one rinsed thoroughly, and soak in one gallon ro/di, and 1 gal salt mixed water for 24 hrs and do a reading. Total would be 4 experiments. Also check your plain water for control sake. Then extrapolate ppm to 100 gal as that is about what one cup would be good for. Thanks if you do this.
aurora
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OP's are reporting that they end up with less phosphate and nitrate in REAL reef systems with beneficial effects after 2 weeks of rice use and some people here are wondering what rice will do in r/o water. Some of you are really missing the point here. How about soaking your fish foods in r/o water and do some analysis on it? I'd suspect that all values of concerns would be many times higher than rice but no one would consider NOT feeding their fish.
daveonbass
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+1 lolrus...haha.
Ynotme4886
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This may be a dumb idea but why not just take the reactor and attach it to a bucket of your choice either salt water or RO and let it tumble the residue off of itself.
Might come a bit cleaner then trying to rinse it off by hand plus then you can adjust your pump flow without trying to climb under a stand.
Then when your rice is ready just take it out so you can give the reactor a good cleaning
before you put it back on the tank.
My reactor isnt in use yet so I am thinking of doing it this way.
Just waiting on a new skimmer pinwheel to come in before I join the club.
The wife thinks I am a bit nuts cause I am looking at the bag of organic rice we have in a whole new light
I have 2 days to kill so maybe I will let my rice cycle before use.
Might come a bit cleaner then trying to rinse it off by hand plus then you can adjust your pump flow without trying to climb under a stand.
Then when your rice is ready just take it out so you can give the reactor a good cleaning
before you put it back on the tank.
My reactor isnt in use yet so I am thinking of doing it this way.
Just waiting on a new skimmer pinwheel to come in before I join the club.
The wife thinks I am a bit nuts cause I am looking at the bag of organic rice we have in a whole new light
I have 2 days to kill so maybe I will let my rice cycle before use.
Just2Many
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daveonbass
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day one in the bag...
no change. NO3 15ppm, PO4 0ppm.
BUT, I'm so proud of my skimmer. It's working like a champ. It's pulling out a milky grey/brown fluid....and it's not the best smelling stuff. So far no bacteria bloom, also no tank inhabitants have reacted at all to the rice.
mostly it's just another day...
no change. NO3 15ppm, PO4 0ppm.
BUT, I'm so proud of my skimmer. It's working like a champ. It's pulling out a milky grey/brown fluid....and it's not the best smelling stuff. So far no bacteria bloom, also no tank inhabitants have reacted at all to the rice.
mostly it's just another day...
skunkmere
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Wow! keep us posted on your nano.
daveonbass
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this for me is not do able. For one my reactor feeds my skimmer...and all the hoses are attached alread. To take the reactor off would mean a good chunk of work to take apart my sump set up and have it down for a day.
secondly, what's the point of attaching the rice reactor to a bucket...? Then you're just cleaning it with it's own dirty water. I just rinse mine in a strainer in the sink. I also have a sprayer on my sink and run good water pressure through the rice. It knocks of all the dust and the water eventually runs super clean. I don't bother rinsing the water after that in RODI. What little tap water may be added is surely not the end of the world. Like Anthony Calfo used to say, we have more stuff on our hands andunder our nails that is more harmful than a little tap water.
so that's how I rinse mine off. There was no cloudy start up so I guess the rice was properly rinsed.
noahm
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Not missing the point. The amount is clearly minimal when figured into ppm of actual tank volume. The idea was to get some standardized figures based on a somewhat organized experiment, so that people who are concerned can actually see that it is indeed a very small number. It has been done informally by a few posters, but would be it would be good to see set volumes with rinsed and unrinsed, ro vs salt, extrapolated to appropriate tank volumes according to the amount of rice used. It is just to make it more understandable to those skimming the thread.
Thanks Dave for the update.
icycoral
I glue animals to rocks
Very quick update
Very quick update
Today was very hectic for me so I didn't get to test my water but every thing looks good. Skimmer still taking out some funky stuff my orp 297mV corals all look good. Oh and for inverts I have a filter feeding cucumber that has been fine through out the experiment. Also my coco worms feather dusters and all the mini feather dusters and tube worms are ok and so are the mini brittle stars and my large brittle star too. All shrimp fire, skunk, peppermint, blue coral banded all fine. Three tridacnas all good bristle worms good can't think of any others to list. Corals are great.
Very quick update
Today was very hectic for me so I didn't get to test my water but every thing looks good. Skimmer still taking out some funky stuff my orp 297mV corals all look good. Oh and for inverts I have a filter feeding cucumber that has been fine through out the experiment. Also my coco worms feather dusters and all the mini feather dusters and tube worms are ok and so are the mini brittle stars and my large brittle star too. All shrimp fire, skunk, peppermint, blue coral banded all fine. Three tridacnas all good bristle worms good can't think of any others to list. Corals are great.
icycoral
I glue animals to rocks
Oh and I put 1 cup off my rice in a container with 2 cups of fresh mixed salt water two days ago. Today I checked the po4 and got around 6ppm. But there are 1600 cups of water in a 100 gallon aquarium so if you do the math you get a ridiculously low level of po4 in a full size tank. Also I did not rinse this rice as I wanted to test it for worse case conditions I cannot think it could get much worse than a 2:1 ratio of water to rice lol. In my tank I'm using a 1600:1 water to rice ratio 1/2 cup of rice 50gal cube tank. Will mix up 1 cup rice to one gallon and retest eventually would like to test rinsed and unrinsed also.
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