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Yes, pristein supply 5 minute drive away.
If I were you, I will do continuous water change.
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Yes, pristein supply 5 minute drive away.
Why is that? What is the source of these elements?
I presume he means things elevated in the new salt water, but obviously elements can rise from many sources.
I see, such as food sources?
Continuous water change ?Actually these three points are the reasons for frequent water change, as frequent as possible such as the continuously water change.
Its seems you are arguing against element supplementation & treating element supplementation & regular water changes as mutually exclusive.A scientific way to use Triton testing should be:
1. Send in a sample for newly mixed water, this is your base line.
2. Send on sample in every three days for a month, you then can see which elements are consumed. Then you can calculate the consumption rate for each element.
3. Then adjust the dosing accord to the consumption rate.
Dosing accord to one test result vs natural sea water standard is not scientific. Assuming you actually be able to obtain all the element that are needed.
4. After you dose, continue to send in samples to monitor the dosing regiment.
Triton method may work well for them as they have the ICP machine on site.
Water changes are still a great method of reducing high NO3 and PO4. In the cases where you have mass die off or accidentally make a mistake during feeding etc. No other method will reduce NO3 or PO4 as quickly.
Agree for emergencies. I always keep enough water made (not saltwater) to do a 25% change.
You could do balling dosing, dutch synthetic, triton, zeovit, etc to replenish trace elements, but in smaller tanks, probably sub 100 gals, it really isn't feasible. You are probably adding amounts that are difficult to measure accurately. So if you did decide to dose trace elements to avoid water changes, you'd probably be forced to do the occasional water change just to bring the element levels back into balance due to constant over dosing.
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Doing regular water changes for 2 of those 3 things is not necessary.Because it's easy to do and it does all 3 of those things you mentioned at the same time.
It definitely becomes less economical the larger your water volume but I still don't understand where water changes got a rap for being a hard thing to do, even if you don't have a fully automated system for it.
LARS disease, & utilising other methods to negate the need for regular water changes, are mutually exclusive.Joe Yaiullo had a great talk about this. He called it LARS (Lazy *** Reefer Syndrome) and it was spot on IMO. If water changes keep one involved with their tank, they should be done.
Not sure why you would assume constant overdosing. I am running a Triton system on a RSR 250 and don't find the dosage amounts, even the replacements after ICP testing, to be anything I can't manage with a dosing pump and some syringes (for small volume elements like Iodine I use a 1cc syringe)
Sanjay Joshi’s Nano Reef Tank Breaks All The Rules (Video)
No skimmer. No carbon. No water changes.
His tank is full of softies, known for releasing toxins.
https://reefbuilders.com/2017/07/19/sanjay-joshis-nano-reef-tank-breaks-all-the-rules/