After hearing this wonderful discussion all the more I look forward to Mike’s new e book. Sometimes getting back to basics is a plus for someone like myself. Cheers 🍻
Really appreciate the three of you taking the time to put this up. It’s very informative and a great listen while working on my tank this evening. Hope you guys have a great week! Happy reefing!
My experience with the orange-spot filefish was very similar. The polyps of all the SPS retract, but they never really do any damage to any one coral. I think they just suck up some of the coral slime. Mine would eat during the light hours, but would perch themselves between the branches of a large colony as the light was decreasing each night.
Could I please clarify the ammonia. On a previous podcast with Mike, and Randy Holmes Farleys original post on R2R, it was 20gm in 1ltr of RODI, but its now 20gm in 2 ltrs?
I would like to clarify.. the bolus method should only be used with Fauna Marin balling light. Mike got a little confused, it is bicarb-based NOT carbonate based. If you use carbonate you will wipe your tank out. Also, the whole idea of the Bolus method is to achieve the pH gains from other systems such as kalk without all the downsides.
Ive noticed some odd things since dosing ammonium bicarb for a few months. My sand bed is much cleaner corals have continued to grow well. My alk consumption has increased slightly, but not what Mike says. Although i havent changed anything else at all in 3 months. Also dosing vodka at a steady lower dose.
I have a feeling the ammonium dosnt make it to the corals really, its so minimal the amount dosed that it probably is just increasing the beneficial bacteria and converting to nitrates in my sump lol.
Ammonium chloride makes the alkalinity drop. But instead of increasing the growth of coral, isn’t it a weak acid? Hence it will make the alkaline drop without any organisms involved. Sanjay should know, isn’t he an engineer?
Ammonium chloride is a salt. By itself it does not really change alkalinity to any extent, particularly at the low levels it is being dosed. However, it provides nitrogen to the system (and yes, the corals can take it up), and I believe as that nitrogen is being processed there may be a slight drop in alkalinity, but again, not significant.
@@Will40th - Yes. More fish more CO2 and especially during night without reverse light schedule macro algae scrubber/refugium pH would go lower. Which is better is difficult to say and where the ideal balance is. Ofc if you have a lot of fish and the load go too high it would be impractical to take them out and put back as per the need in relation to tinkering dosing of liquid ammonia additive. 🤔
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Massive amount of valuable information distributed excellently. Well done folks!
This team never gets old love Mikes giggles there is so much history between these two one day I’ll have reef friend like this happy reefing 🪸🐠
Love hearing these guys talk reef!!! Never gets old!!!
After hearing this wonderful discussion all the more I look forward to Mike’s new e book. Sometimes getting back to basics is a plus for someone like myself. Cheers 🍻
The reason hobbiest going down the rabbit hole of getting corals to grow faster, is the frags have gotten so small.
Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Have a great evening!
Really appreciate the three of you taking the time to put this up. It’s very informative and a great listen while working on my tank this evening. Hope you guys have a great week! Happy reefing!
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My experience with the orange-spot filefish was very similar. The polyps of all the SPS retract, but they never really do any damage to any one coral. I think they just suck up some of the coral slime. Mine would eat during the light hours, but would perch themselves between the branches of a large colony as the light was decreasing each night.
when these 2 are on your show keith… it reminds me of the grumpy old men shows 😂
Could I please clarify the ammonia. On a previous podcast with Mike, and Randy Holmes Farleys original post on R2R, it was 20gm in 1ltr of RODI, but its now 20gm in 2 ltrs?
If you use 20gms in 1L just 1/2 the dose. I end up with 10gms/L. So if I use 40 ml per day, you would use 20 ml/day of the original formula on R2R.
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I would like to clarify.. the bolus method should only be used with Fauna Marin balling light. Mike got a little confused, it is bicarb-based NOT carbonate based. If you use carbonate you will wipe your tank out. Also, the whole idea of the Bolus method is to achieve the pH gains from other systems such as kalk without all the downsides.
Thanks - is there any documentation on this method?
@@markfollenweider it will be officially launched next week at Interzoo
Ive noticed some odd things since dosing ammonium bicarb for a few months. My sand bed is much cleaner corals have continued to grow well. My alk consumption has increased slightly, but not what Mike says. Although i havent changed anything else at all in 3 months. Also dosing vodka at a steady lower dose.
I'm interested in finding out the tank volumes so I can calculate the amount of ammonia they're dosing. Does anyone have that information?
I did the math and it turns out that Sanjay is dosing 0.136 ppm of ammonia daily, which equates to 0.5 ppm of Nitrate roughly.
Have extra bulkheads and dosing head parts on hand.
Right
I grew one inch petco maxima clam to a giant . But can’t seem to keep any other
So a couple off drops of cloudy ammonia ?
I have a feeling the ammonium dosnt make it to the corals really, its so minimal the amount dosed that it probably is just increasing the beneficial bacteria and converting to nitrates in my sump lol.
Ammonium chloride makes the alkalinity drop. But instead of increasing the growth of coral, isn’t it a weak acid? Hence it will make the alkaline drop without any organisms involved. Sanjay should know, isn’t he an engineer?
Ammonium chloride is a salt. By itself it does not really change alkalinity to any extent, particularly at the low levels it is being dosed. However, it provides nitrogen to the system (and yes, the corals can take it up), and I believe as that nitrogen is being processed there may be a slight drop in alkalinity, but again, not significant.
Can you just get more fish 🐟 to add ammonia naturally ?
Yes. Most people dont have enough fish.
@@spookypora question would to much fish a affect ph ?
Of the ammonia affect ph ?
@@Will40th - Yes. More fish more CO2 and especially during night without reverse light schedule macro algae scrubber/refugium pH would go lower. Which is better is difficult to say and where the ideal balance is. Ofc if you have a lot of fish and the load go too high it would be impractical to take them out and put back as per the need in relation to tinkering dosing of liquid ammonia additive. 🤔