The Farm

[Spslvr]

Fantastic your business and their techniques employed. This puts you, in my opinion, more than a creator. I humbly believe you're innovating and adding many new features.
Please keep us informed again and again. This is very educational. :celeb3:

I see myself being neighbor of yours. My God, you know that would be terrible?
Surely my family should commit me in addiction recovery center in SPS. :wildone:

Thank you for your kind words....

 

[cFloor]

Man, I love this thread. So many nice corals. What an operation you are running!

 

[incrediball]

Hi Nick, I am trying to replicate what you are doing with a marine research centre. We have successfully applied electro to restore coral reef that had previously been badly damaged by nearby tourism activities.

I would like to use electro on the closed system in our lab but was reluctant. I wonder if you can kindly share your electro setup? It would be much appreciated.

 

[shaggss]

Great thread!

I'm from Cairns too.......you do tours?

 

[Spslvr]

Just want to touch on a controversial subject and that is metals in our water, for as long as I have been in the hobby/industry it is widely known that heavy metals are bad for inverts especially sps corals, after investing in our palintest we have come to discover that heavy metals such as zinc, copper, iron, nickel etc are depleted at an extrodinarily fast rate, we thaught mabe its being skimmed out, mabe oxygen depletes these elements, I have come to the conclusion that oxygen depletes potassium which is why I believe high powered skimmers appear to suck potassium out of the water, we have begun a heavy metals dosing regime and the results have been quite dramatic, I will keep you all updated as we progress, and yes I will be trialing this on my own personal tank...

 

[danrobberg]

So you are adding metals to the tank?

 

[Spslvr]

So you are adding metals to the tank?

correct.

 

[crs751]

How is this accomplished?

 

[Spslvr]

How is this accomplished?

By careful dosing of the individual elements, sourced from your average nursery I am reluctant to disclose the rates and amount to which we dose because there are a lot more variables in our system than your average home aquarium, but the topic is interesting none the less.

We have found zinc especially to be a good tool for coloration...

 

[bibarassa]

Just want to touch on a controversial subject and that is metals in our water, for as long as I have been in the hobby/industry it is widely known that heavy metals are bad for inverts especially sps corals, after investing in our palintest we have come to discover that heavy metals such as zinc, copper, iron, nickel etc are depleted at an extrodinarily fast rate, we thaught mabe its being skimmed out, mabe oxygen depletes these elements, I have come to the conclusion that oxygen depletes potassium which is why I believe high powered skimmers appear to suck potassium out of the water, we have begun a heavy metals dosing regime and the results have been quite dramatic, I will keep you all updated as we progress, and yes I will be trialing this on my own personal tank...

I believe it's just like the triton method suggests

 

[joshky]

Very interesting! I hope you can share more on your findings in the future.

 

[crs751]

It will be interesting to review your results as you post them. Thanks for sharing your findings.

 

[sahin]

Interesting stuff. Can you discuss which elements affect which colours? How long after dosing do you typically see results?

 

[Spslvr]

I believe it's just like the triton method suggests

Yes similar to triton but that's not what im getting at, my point is that while most minor elements are kept stable with water changes its some of the heavy metals that are consumed at a very fast rate.... why are they being skimmed out? or are the sps actually using it...

 

[sharkboy99999]

Have you tried turning the skimmer off?

 

[Spslvr]

Interesting stuff. Can you discuss which elements affect which colours? How long after dosing do you typically see results?

We think that zinc improves overall colors but in particular yellow and white...
Copper helps with lightening of all colors, iron helps greens, and not sure about nickel but its consumed faster than the rest for some reason...

 

[bibarassa]

spslvr,how do you check all these heavy metals?

 

[Spslvr]

Our palintest can test over 130 elements, and anything else can be tested at the university we are alligned with...

 

[markalot]

I wonder how many heavy metals bind to rocks in a standard aquarium? I also wonder how many magic potions, like zeospur2 for example, are heavy metal dosing?

 

[Spslvr]

I wonder how many heavy metals bind to rocks in a standard aquarium? I also wonder how many magic potions, like zeospur2 for example, are heavy metal dosing?

We put zeospur through the palintest and copper is off the charts.. As for binding to rock its possible but we have no rock in our system