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Those two are amazing and their knowledge will be helpful to the industry as a whole!

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This may well work. But there are so many wrong basic chemistry statements in this interview that it looses all credibility. Sorry, not my favorite episode.

Nobody else floored with the idea of hybrid acros? This was eye opening and I can't wait to see what those 2 do in the next few years.

Woohoo! BTR is my #1 reefing content. Fauna is all I've bought for the last year, their products are consistently high quality, and even better, they work. Looking forward to this discussion. EDIT: this is fascinating

What does this equate to in Kh value? What levels are people aiming for? I have to keep both KH and Mag levels topped up. Both seem to drop quite steadily. If one goes low PH drops..

Love it that Christohph pointed to an important little known fact that KCl dips likely works by inactivating animals nervous systems. It actually does the same to the nervenet syncitium of the corals as well, but it doesn't kill them. For those interested: High extracellular K+ depolarizes the membrane potential of nerve cells such that becomes inactivated, paralysing or killing the bugs. It is the same in mammals and humans. Inject a human with KCl in the blood stream and it will inactivate the nervous innevation of the heart, making it stop rapidly.

This screams for a follow-up on basic acro husbandry. While talking about acros that spawn within a year after shipping in newly set up tanks, or in icecream boxes (!?), most hobbyists struggle with keeping them alive. There is a reference to his open-source article but the methods section lacks detail to really reproduce the conditions. Awesome interview!

Damn some of the colour is amazing!!!

You three need to do this again, walk through the HTU, and not justify each point. I’m 1 day in and my tank is glowing, it’s insane. A proper how to would be good. I had to cobble together between HTU, videos, groups. This is truly game changing if one day is anything to go by.

Anyway you can boost audio on your end? Maybe before upload? I do listen over heavy equipment smile😅.

Thanks

Another great chat lads, Can you post the link about iodine testing, please.

Tomorrow will be my first bolus and solus

thank you for such a great guest! And his English is better than many Americans!

This method doesn't do anything for pH at all.

White Corals?

Great content! I have been doing something similar with a bolus but with Carbonate instead of Bicarbonate for the past 3 years. My pH rises from 8.0 to 8.2 within 30 min then the lights rase the pH up to 8.35 throughout the day. Growing SPS well no issues.

I changed my lighting schedule in preparation to try this method and found a significant change to my pH peak. I'm going to see if this trend continues before switching, but I'm wondering if the change to the lighting schedule is the major factor in the increased pH and not the Bolus dose?

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The method isn’t new Been around for ever Read some books

B-Ionic 2 Part, released in 1995, always had on its label (and still does) that you should add the entire dose in the morning just before or at the same time the photoperiod starts, when system pH is at its lowest. The alkalinity component consists of a blend of both carbonate and bicarbonate salts (along with other major, minor, and trace elements including the halogens in amounts sufficient to balance proportionally with the sodium and chloride that accumulates with use). The product was formulated with a carbonate:bicarbonate ratio sufficient to jump start an increase in pH immediately upon addition yet not as severe an increase as dumping in sodium carbonate or saturated kalkwasser at the start of the photoperiod. For systems that ran at high pH which usually meant heavy kalkwasser use or a large reverse daylight macro algae refugium, we released B-Ionic Calcium Bicarbonate system where the alk component consisted of all bicarbonate. Over the years sales slowly dropped to the point where we discontinued it because keeping a higher system pH became more the norm in the hobby. Many systems run successfully on just B-Ionic 2 part being added in one dose just before or at the same time lights come on. See Mike Paletta’s book Ultimate Marine Aquariums..many were using B-Ionic as one daily dose as was my “Bare Bones Reef” which appears in it. When more precise dosing pumps became available, some reef aquarists started dosing the amount they were adding in one dose but spread out slowly over the full 24 hours. The result was more stable alkalinity which resulted in some improvement in growth, but the original one dose at beginning of photoperiod method still works fine for many systems.

Lots of interesting information on this topic, would this method benefit mainly coral farmers rather than a hobbiest main display tank? Especially with lowering the light period intensity & shortening it all together then I’d miss either the lights on in the morning before work or I’d miss the evening lights when home from work or could you just lower the intensity & just run a blue period for a few hours in the evening ? Also switching over to this balling method could you just switch cold Turkey straight over, if yes, any major issues to look out for & how to correct? I’m also starting up a new tank to transfer , would I be better in switching to this method on the new tank & just move live stock over once cycled? Thanks Adam for the live . 🇬🇧

As always great episode Adam. I appreciate the professional quality of the sound and info given. I have already set up my system tonight to give the bolus method a try starting tomorrow.

Great live Adam. Appreciate the content. Thumbs up 👍🏼 to help the channel grow. Thank you also to Fauna Marin. Claude is a beast. Interesting method, but not sure this will work better than keeping it stable. I see the logic though. Definitely worth looking into and testing more.

Im yet to see good corals from Fauna Marin sorry my 20 cents

Amazing talk, fascinating!

we should be pleaseful for having such a nice guy at germany. i know him personally and he always has time for questions, even really complicated. gonna listen to your podcast now and enjoying both of you <3

amazing podcast - i'm halfway thru but as always really awesome information that i haven't heard before, the interaction with sugars and zooxanthelle, and bacteria against detritus, a potent but gentle dip - lots of cool stuff coming up 💪

Thanks!

Another great podcast, Adam. Lots of thought-provoking points. Thanks, Corey, for sharing your experiences.

Before this podcast...reefbuilders was my number 1 reefing podcast..this was when Jake was alive. Since he passed ..its just not the same....keep up the good work. Best reef podcast out here.

This podcast keeps getting better and better like a FG Acro ❤❤❤

I use Neros on sea sweeps to get that sweeping flow over the corals.

Totally agree!

Great talk guys 👍

Zinc definitely promotes a nice metallic sheen when you’re up around 5 ug/L. You’ll see it more at the base of some corals.

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Your guest is definitely a coral 🪸 guy

Great interview. One of the best!

BTR is definitely the best reef podcast around, keep them coming Adam!

Yesss Corey. Looking forward to this one

Let’s go! Always providing great content. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Germany! 🇩🇪 🙌🏼

Thank you again for all the work you put into making these videos !

Thank you for your huge efforts in all your great videos!

Nice!

I found Rubidium just needed to hit a saturation point. In my system consumption is low. F, I, Sr, K, and many other elements are a different story. They are being consumed consistently from ICP to ICP. If there was one element that I would feel comfortable not dosing…it would probably be Rb, but every system is different so it’s hard to say.

What were some of the first products made by Tropic 60 70 years ago?

Great discussion. Been using Chris’ MS for over a year now. Great product.