When we had the last meeting at the school, did the speaker say that when salts have higher levels of say iron manganese etc… From the mountain runoff or whatever, builds in our system and that’s what causes tank crashes or old tank syndrome?
Also is he on our forum?
Tim he did reference old tank syndrome. I am interested his salt but no one sells it around here he also said Red Sea pro and his salt was very similar
Tim, you can contact Ron personally through the company website. He said if we have any questions just email him.
Right now Hidden Reef are the only store on the east coast that are selling it, as far as I know.
The reason I asked is because I was really thinking if it wasn’t a whole lot more it may be worth the switch. I remembered what he said and it didn’t make sense to me he from what I remember states that those elevated minerals build up and caused old tank syndrome but that can’t happen so now I think I’m going to stay with what I’m using.
I have used both red sea coral pro and the new Royal Nature, the Royal Nature mixes clearer and faster with no precipitation it really does mix clear and ph stable in about 30 min.
Hidden Reef is only an hour from me so I will be picking up another bucket of it soon.
So good results? Too soon to know if it’s truly better but please keep us updated thanks
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The reason I asked is because I was really thinking if it wasn’t a whole lot more it may be worth the switch. I remembered what he said and it didn’t make sense to me he from what I remember states that those elevated minerals build up and caused old tank syndrome but that can’t happen so now I think I’m going to stay with what I’m using.[/quote]
What makes you think mineral build up cant happen?
You could also treat ur fresh sw with this:
You could also treat ur fresh sw with this:
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Ever used it? Anyone know where to buy it? It likely wouldn’t do much for me as I run 24/7 polyfilter that has the stuff coated on it already. Whatever small amount of heavy meatals I had in the water get removed.
I do remember the levels of copper he used on the graph were in parts per billion. Fish food probably has more. Example, I read Hikari seaweed extreme pellet label, twards the bottom - copper sulphate! Just goes to show that small amounts of bad stuff get in our tanks in different ways, not just in salt.
Metal can’t build up at least not the way I’m thinking of it.
Say you start a tank and use brand “a” say brand a has a type of metal or mineral that’s not used by anything now you have this metal when you first fill your tank it’s not harmful now but he said it builds when you do water changes. So if you pull out 20% and add 20% the levels stay the same. The only way it can build is if it settles or attaches to something but that wasn’t said. I’m just trying to figure it out what’s best andaybe save someone the hassle of switching because of something that won’t happen. He did a great job and I appreciate it but I’ve been told many things by experts many many times that just aren’t true. I could be wrong that’s why I posted here
But metals do get absorbed into rock sand and to some extent silicone, take a hospital tank that was bare and treated with copper and then clean it and refill with rodi and test for copper in a few days and you will most likely have a trace amount again .
That makes sense but how high can it really go and aren’t all metals different?
A good article, but you may need to skim through much of it to get to the facts. It did address that most reef tanks have extremely high levels of heavy metals,
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-08/rs/feature/index.php