potassium

[njb2345]

Ok thanks buddy...

 

[Bebo77]

again alot of us who are dosing potassium do it because we have low levels to begin with AND run zeovit... i dont know about the rest of you but i believe that zeo either leaches potassium from the water or encourages corals to use it to "color up" maybe its a little of both. Because of our(zeovit users) low levels we have to add small doses daily to maintain our level at 400.

 

[EmDy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8636371#post8636371 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bebo77
again alot of us who are dosing potassium do it because we have low levels to begin with AND run zeovit... i dont know about the rest of you but i believe that zeo either leaches potassium from the water or encourages corals to use it to "color up" maybe its a little of both. Because of our(zeovit users) low levels we have to add small doses daily to maintain our level at 400.

zeolith does not leach postassium to the water or encourages coral to use.

to me, zeolith absorbed most of everything in the water for coral to starve and then you dose food, and other supplements back to the water for them to color up or survive.

 

[njb2345]

i also use Zeo, so i was just wondering if anyone came up with a stock solution to maintain 400 level or any way to rule out how much is used in zeo tanks...

Nick

 

[Mike O'Brien]

Boomer posted a paper listing what is preferentially absorbed by the zeolite clinoptilite and potassium was high on the list.

 

[F35-Joint Strike Fighter]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8636603#post8636603 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mike O'Brien
Boomer posted a paper listing what is preferentially absorbed by the zeolite clinoptilite and potassium was high on the list.

link please, I'd to know.

 

[Mike O'Brien]

Someone with search capabilities will have to find it, it's in this forum and Habib confirmed IIRC.

 

[F35-Joint Strike Fighter]

I wish I could search, gotta wait after midnight

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

link please, I'd to know.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=8414319#post8414319

 

[Boomer]

Here is more about clinoptilolite

http://reefcentral.com/forums/searc...=7548112&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

 

[Boomer]

I forgot but do you guys know that GFO's suck up K+ like a sponge ?

 

[jamesdawson]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8637145#post8637145 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Boomer
I forgot but do you guys know that GFO's suck up K+ like a sponge ?

For real?

If that's true then its a way bigger issue than just zeolith users.


James

 

[REEF-DADDY]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8635735#post8635735 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Randy Holmes-Farley
FWIW, NSW has about 400 ppm, so if you are bothering to monitor and dose, I'd target 400 ppm.

Thanks Randy

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I forgot but do you guys know that GFO's suck up K+ like a sponge ?

From seawater? Sounds unlikely to me.

 

[twon8]

aware of this current K debate, i noticed a bottle of club soda has these ingredients: carbonated water, potassium chloride, potassium bicarbonate, potassium citrate

would the citrate be bad?

i know the k cl and k bicarbonate have been listed as possible supplements, so i figured i would throw this out there.

 

[F35-Joint Strike Fighter]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8636942#post8636942 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Randy Holmes-Farley

link please, I'd to know.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=8414319#post8414319

Thanks a lot, Randy.

 

[Bebo77]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8639185#post8639185 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by twon8
aware of this current K debate, i noticed a bottle of club soda has these ingredients: carbonated water, potassium chloride, potassium bicarbonate, potassium citrate

would the citrate be bad?

i know the k cl and k bicarbonate have been listed as possible supplements, so i figured i would throw this out there.

why would you add all that when for less than $3 you can get pure potassium chloide?

 

[Bionicle]

What a different between Zeovit and Zeolite? I'm confused.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Club soda is not a good way to go. The CO2 will drive down the pH too much to allow much potassium addition.

 

[Bebo77]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8640490#post8640490 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bionicle
What a different between Zeovit and Zeolite? I'm confused.

lol there really is no such thing as zeolite... but people use that term when they refer to the basic 4 as opposed to running the full gammit of zeovit products...