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I'd be curious about your DOC management. What mechanisms you employ to remove it. How you know the toxic variety aren't increasing. And how you know your not over stripping DOC from the water column?How many others trying this?
I'm almost a year without since my last change.
Tank has never looked better.
I think I may have it dialed in.
So what should I look out for?
Are you using Triton or just winging it?
Care to share a recent ICP test results report?I'm using Triton.
Nice!My "fresh from oven" FTS. No WC, no skimmer, no GFO, no refugium. Very simple filtration, fully bacteria driven.
Nice!
Wow! no skimmer
Got to have a few toys in the tub.
I maybe heading down the same path one day.
Sure thing. Test is from 4 months ago (I test every 4-5 months). Phosphates are high at 0.4, but I'm not having any issues so I'm not really worrying about it. Also you will see Tungsten showing up, That took a while to find the cause and ended up being from the Ecotech Vortech mp-40 in my frag tank. I opened up the wet side of the mp-40, the shaft had rust all around it. Turns out they use tungsten alloy shafts made in china that seem to leach into the water column.Care to share a recent ICP test results report?
@JBNY Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. You mentioned the only point of water changes is to reduce nitrate and add trace elements but there are other benefits too. Like, dilution of dissolved organics for one.
@JBNY nice colonies. How old are those?. Very well thought on arrangements as well. Unlike mine, soon they will touch each other from every direction. I might end up with new stick species next year
That's the primary reason to have a skimmer. Sure if you are going skimmerless you need to do water changes but I don't think you accumulate DO as much if you have an efficient skimmer.
The colonies are about 18 months old, some more some less. Yeah people think I am crazy when I tell them to put frags no less than 6-8" away from each other. This is not my first rodeo, corals grow very fast once they are established and soon they will be growing into each other if not placed with enough forethought on how they will grow.