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MadScientist

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  1. Strike 4d or toto? My chance of being struck by lightning is 1 million times higher than striking lottery. I don't buy them, haha
  2. got time no money, haha. never say never? you just said it twice, haha
  3. Let me know if you find cheap kill a watt there. I don't want to kill both the watt and my wallet at the same time
  4. I don't even see any rock, haha. Totally covered by ls, haha. Where you got the ar from?
  5. Make $? More likely people will say you are rich, haha
  6. Bro, can i rent a container truck and scoop everything up?
  7. Yup, that's what I meant. It seems that the pellets do break off due to the constant agitation (very tiny fragments) and the partial dissolution may lead to the material of the biopellet leeching to somewhere else in the tank. There's a few cases of increased cyanobacteria growth out of the reactors for some tanks that's running a biopellet reactor. For a big tank, this is of no concern, for a 3L tank, I suppose it could be a big concern. I am attempting to solidify acetic acid to reduce its acute effects on pH and to contain the dosing into a reactor, this may allow for a safer "dosing" in a small tank. The reason why I used a combination of acetic and critic acid is due to the fact that all the vinegar I have are a mixture of these 2 acids. I have acquired a bottle of vinegar that states diluted acetic acid, and I do hope the content matches the label. In order to test the solid acetic acid, I will be setting up a tank with a volume of approximately 0.5L. The aim of the test is to determine the effects of the binder polymer on the water parameters and the "skimma-bility" of the polymer-laden water.
  8. It seems that other reefers have noticed that some corals are affected much more by the carbon dosing than others and some are not really affected. However, there is lack of data to conclude which species are not compatible with carbon dosing. Anyone dosing np pellets in nano tanks? I would like to seek your observations in regards to leeching/ breaking off of carbon from the pellets.
  9. Haha, my life doesn't really include upgrading. You can bring ls to east? Haha
  10. Bro, I did a search before doing the test. No one is doing it with a 3L water volume? Why the sudden jump from vinegar to vitamin c? Acetic and citric acid is not ascorbic acid. 5% of acetic acid will cause a pH of 2? Even when I diluted it to 0.005%? Acetic acid is an organic acid. Most organic acids are weak acids; they do not disassociate completely in the presence of water. Commercial distilled vinegar found in supermarket has a pH ranging from 2.4-3.4. Vitamin C will degrade as soon as it touches water? Either the lemon is very dry or the doctors and nutritionists lied about lemons having vitamin c. One may say the preservatives found in lemon is critic acid, that I agree. If critic acid is that unstable, the vitamin c in lemon will be degraded within 12 hours after it is grown? If the acid is degraded, how is it going to affect the pH of the tank water? I agree there is a certain limit of the amount of bacteria that the water can hold. If you see very matured sewage water, that's roughly the amount. I can safely say the visibility through the water is less than a few cm and no higher lifeforms can really exist in it. If that's the case, all my fishes would have flipped? I see no reason why one cannot revisit something that has been done before. It is through the revisitings that numerous discoveries were remade and corrected. Revisitings also allow for verification of results. This methodology is called science? Dosing sodium ascorbate can be dangerous in a nano tank due to the increase in sodium ions which may increase salinity. One can say this can be a cause, that can be a cause, even a fart a thousand miles away could have caused the failure (butterfly effect?) By doing this and comparing the results with others, we may find the exact cause and maybe come up with a solution. Imagine how many nano tanks one can save from the hands of numerous new reefers. Anyway, someone is intending to take fishes to space and they most probably won't release to the wild or return them to earth. Going down the same road reinforces the path. Eventually, it will create a path that leads to results. Try telling the ants not to do that? As for the results, mine differs from yours in that my fishes were not even stressed out. My protein skimmer remains normal, there's no excessive skim-mate and the water is very clear. It is very strange that only mushroom corals were affected. All the other non-photosynthetic lifeforms were not visibly affected. The coralline algae still looks purplish and reddish.
  11. nitrate level: 5ppm (top down view of reaction chamber), verified with side wall view of 50/10ppm (Salifert Nitrate Profi Test; Batch: Unknown; Expiry 11-2014)
  12. Both? haha, trying to open the pandora box of reefing,
  13. Anyone know where to get eden 501 impeller?
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