I have heard that and also a few people talk about even going closer to 10-1. I believe Dong from AcroGarden is all about those closer ratios. I'd like to have to have him on the show to check ;)
I have a horrible memory, I believe I heard it from Charles Delbeek, Curator of Aquarium Projects at Steinhart Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences speaker at high tide aquaticRUclips channel. and he had some very interesting data to share Dong is always entertaining
We have been using BOLUS on our Acropora system at our facility since February of this year. We are very pleased with the results as we are learning more about the deep details being discovered.
Been using Reef Crystals for 20 years. I cant attribute anything negative tank wise to the salt ever. Its always something ive done. Just make sure to test every bucket they do not all measure the same.
@fraggarage5922 No never a feeling of "bad batch". The Alk seems to be all over the map from year to year but otherwise nothing out of line. The crud also seems to form when ya leave it mixing for too long exposed to air...as in brute can wide open, from my experience at least
I’ve used ALL salts, from cheap IO to TMP and everything inbetween. Lately I’ve settled on mixing RS blue with either RSCP or IORC, and my tank loves it. And to echo what you’ve said, I’ve never had any issues with ANY IO product. IORC is perfectly fine. I mix the two to get the alk I want.
Awesome episode Adam. I look forward for him to come back on. Thank you for all you do. New epsiodes of Frag Garage are the highlight of my day. Im pretty sure I've listeneded to every episode multiple times. There's a few episodes that I listen to ALOT. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the episodes for 2025.
@ when I do a water change, I drain and refill my sump. Now I rub it down with pad and have Nero cranked as the sicce drains the gunk out. My sump manufacturer said to get big filter socks, cut strips out, lay across sump where filter roll paper was. Pull and wash, brilliant. Great advice I have not done yet, he just suggested it. Nitrates are not worse in any way. I did get dragons breath macro for the Fuge in Nov,, had endless problems with Chaeto. Got it from top shelf aquatics and is growing nice. Good luck
Great session as always. Adam I'm struggling for polyp extension on my acros across both tanks. One tank has a mitratus butterfly, the other has a red sea angel- do you think these are the soul contributors to this? Both ICP's are good and both tanks corals are growing, but day time polyp extension is whack :(
Fluorine is quite toxic in its inorganic form. The reason some people find problems dosing fluoride is because they have low trace metals. There are a couple of those metals that are important in the conversation of fluorine to an organic form that is non-toxic.
Yeah, i kind of have to or I'd be spending a lot of my time on the phone for free ;) You can do monthly on my Patreon for $25usd/m or single session via PayPal for $30 to beyondthereefpod@gmail.com
Man oh man, must be nice to have the NP working correctly. For me it's just an over priced nitrate tester. Neptune has sent me 4 of them and 100% of the time the phosphate reading is zero. This product absolutely does not work. I started using the Reef Factory Smart Tester for Phosphate and it works amazingly well. If Reef Factory would ever release nitrate reagents I would ditch the NP.
We look at color and fast growth as an indication for health in the aquarium hobby but corals are not colorful, pretty brown and much stronger skeleton in the wild. Makes you wonder if the colors we are trying to get from our corals is actually making my them healthy…
@ I have and it’s brown as shit. Just got back from Phi Phi Islands Thailand. Coral reefs look nothing like our tanks, you’re looking at photoshop online. Just because you see colorful collected corals don’t mean the reef is colorful, they are hand selected among thousands of other corals.
It's hard to say because if you're viewing corals in the wild, you don't get that LED pop that we get in our systems.. I have seen freshly collected mari-culture acros under the facility lighting, compared to seeing them in the ocean farm.. They look amazing under the facility lighting. Of course these are corals grown from broodstock which were selected for their colour in aquariums. I definitely agree that colour is not always an indication of health though!
Goth Babe!? I knew it was you! Anyways love the podcast. Maybe a little less of the host telling the guest what they should do or what your way is and implying it’s better. I understand where you are coming from but for the past few decades it’s the downfall of the one upping in this hobby.
@@fraggarage5922 I'm not saying it's not a good comparison, I'm saying it's an incredibly unflattering comparison. (I'm not commenting on the Bolus method at all, to be clear.) If you have a couple hours to spare, I highly recommend Miniminuteman's series reviewing "Ancient Apocalypse" as an entertaining and thorough exploration of why. There are definitely legitimate examples of amateurs coming into a scientific field and doing paradigm-shifting work. Graham Hancock is not one of them.
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Great chat guys yay Peter 🎉
Super Podcast.
Have u heard about the ratio nitrates to phosphate should be kept at a range of 50-1?
I have heard that and also a few people talk about even going closer to 10-1. I believe Dong from AcroGarden is all about those closer ratios. I'd like to have to have him on the show to check ;)
I have a horrible memory, I believe I heard it from Charles Delbeek, Curator of Aquarium Projects at Steinhart Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences speaker at high tide aquaticRUclips channel. and he had some very interesting data to share Dong is always entertaining
We have been using BOLUS on our Acropora system at our facility since February of this year. We are very pleased with the results as we are learning more about the deep details being discovered.
Thanks for an awesome year of reefing, so much great info! Thank you! Happy New Year!!!🎉🎉 💙
Thanks, you too! Cheers
Can you tell me what amazon brand you are using for ammonium bicarbonate ? Thanks
Excellent!
Keep up the hardwork man!!! Just found the channel and I am loving all the discussions
Been using Reef Crystals for 20 years. I cant attribute anything negative tank wise to the salt ever. Its always something ive done. Just make sure to test every bucket they do not all measure the same.
That's good to know! You never felt like you had a 'bad batch'?
@fraggarage5922 No never a feeling of "bad batch". The Alk seems to be all over the map from year to year but otherwise nothing out of line. The crud also seems to form when ya leave it mixing for too long exposed to air...as in brute can wide open, from my experience at least
I’ve used ALL salts, from cheap IO to TMP and everything inbetween. Lately I’ve settled on mixing RS blue with either RSCP or IORC, and my tank loves it. And to echo what you’ve said, I’ve never had any issues with ANY IO product. IORC is perfectly fine.
I mix the two to get the alk I want.
Awesome episode Adam. I look forward for him to come back on. Thank you for all you do. New epsiodes of Frag Garage are the highlight of my day. Im pretty sure I've listeneded to every episode multiple times. There's a few episodes that I listen to ALOT. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the episodes for 2025.
That's awesome dude! Appreciate the support! Cheers
This year I ditched my filter rollers subscription. At $650 a year I’ve yanked them out and went from Nyos 220 to 300.
This is something I’m thinking of doing is getting a bigger skimmer and not running my filter roller all the time.
@ when I do a water change, I drain and refill my sump. Now I rub it down with pad and have Nero cranked as the sicce drains the gunk out. My sump manufacturer said to get big filter socks, cut strips out, lay across sump where filter roll paper was. Pull and wash, brilliant. Great advice I have not done yet, he just suggested it. Nitrates are not worse in any way. I did get dragons breath macro for the Fuge in Nov,, had endless problems with Chaeto. Got it from top shelf aquatics and is growing nice. Good luck
Great session as always. Adam I'm struggling for polyp extension on my acros across both tanks. One tank has a mitratus butterfly, the other has a red sea angel- do you think these are the soul contributors to this?
Both ICP's are good and both tanks corals are growing, but day time polyp extension is whack :(
@@LukeGreen_ thanks dude! I would check closely for acro bugs of you haven’t? That is the mostly likely culprit for poor pe.
Fluorine is quite toxic in its inorganic form. The reason some people find problems dosing fluoride is because they have low trace metals. There are a couple of those metals that are important in the conversation of fluorine to an organic form that is non-toxic.
Adam, what does it mean that you're a FM ICP Consultant? Is there a charge for that? Can you shoot me some details?
Yeah, i kind of have to or I'd be spending a lot of my time on the phone for free ;) You can do monthly on my Patreon for $25usd/m or single session via PayPal for $30 to beyondthereefpod@gmail.com
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Man oh man, must be nice to have the NP working correctly. For me it's just an over priced nitrate tester. Neptune has sent me 4 of them and 100% of the time the phosphate reading is zero. This product absolutely does not work. I started using the Reef Factory Smart Tester for Phosphate and it works amazingly well. If Reef Factory would ever release nitrate reagents I would ditch the NP.
the reef factory not work well on the long run just on the short run
@@tomg5405 Mine has worked consistently for over 6 months now.
That brightwell salt sounds like the same smell as prime with smells like sodium thiosulfate which is a declorinator. Just saying?
Yes that’s what I was thinking too.
We look at color and fast growth as an indication for health in the aquarium hobby but corals are not colorful, pretty brown and much stronger skeleton in the wild. Makes you wonder if the colors we are trying to get from our corals is actually making my them healthy…
i think you probably never diving many are also very colorfull and it is just because you look them under day light.
@ I have and it’s brown as shit. Just got back from Phi Phi Islands Thailand. Coral reefs look nothing like our tanks, you’re looking at photoshop online. Just because you see colorful collected corals don’t mean the reef is colorful, they are hand selected among thousands of other corals.
@@m4a1JAY sure we select the most nice bu they are many nice in the reef, I lived on a reef many years..
@@m4a1JAY many of those corals look amazing under LEDs
Just like our tank corals look crappy with only daylight
It's hard to say because if you're viewing corals in the wild, you don't get that LED pop that we get in our systems.. I have seen freshly collected mari-culture acros under the facility lighting, compared to seeing them in the ocean farm.. They look amazing under the facility lighting. Of course these are corals grown from broodstock which were selected for their colour in aquariums. I definitely agree that colour is not always an indication of health though!
Goth Babe!? I knew it was you!
Anyways love the podcast. Maybe a little less of the host telling the guest what they should do or what your way is and implying it’s better.
I understand where you are coming from but for the past few decades it’s the downfall of the one upping in this hobby.
😣 Graham Hancock is not a positive comparison, dude, please. 😣
Oh stop
I actually think your comment proves exactly why my example was a good comparison
@@fraggarage5922 I'm not saying it's not a good comparison, I'm saying it's an incredibly unflattering comparison. (I'm not commenting on the Bolus method at all, to be clear.)
If you have a couple hours to spare, I highly recommend Miniminuteman's series reviewing "Ancient Apocalypse" as an entertaining and thorough exploration of why.
There are definitely legitimate examples of amateurs coming into a scientific field and doing paradigm-shifting work. Graham Hancock is not one of them.