Just so everyone knows here that my clams weren't doing to good in the first like I stated in the past 2 posts back.. so Please don't think that the Ultra Clam, and the fauna Marin caused it.. if any thing it helped them for a little bit until they finally were pulled from my tank so that they wouldn't pollute my tank..

I have nothing but excellent response in my tank from this trial.. My SPS have been doing awesome and have shown great color.

I have indeed slowed down on my feedings since i was feeding a little to much, may be that was the cause of the PO 4 going up. I think that its is caused from the phosban taken off line. I was using that alot to suck out any PO 4 in the water and tank .

I cant wait to get the BIO , Claude and Mike have been great talking with me and explaining all. once i get the PO4 sorted out. and the SPS start growing more the tank will have to start to be pruned.

I can see me in the future using more of the BAK, BIO, MIn S to keep the tank going.

You are doing a great job with this review and we have had so many positive feedback over it :)

In one month from now I think people will be amazed at the transformation in your corals and clams.

Taking the phosban off will be the result of the raised PO4 but using the Bio and Bak will keep that in check at 0 value, but just remember what i said about Bio, it is a powerful bacterial culture and dosing little to start with is paramount.

For everyone reading - Fauna Products do what they say they do, they are dosed according to instruction, i know many are used to lumping in an un measured amount of trace elements and then in a month wondering what effect that really had, now put correctly measured amunts of Fauna products in the tank and you see visible changes in a week.

We had a case in point recently, a user had been spending out monthly on iodine strontium and heavy metal trace elements and had no idea what they were supposed to do and also saw no benefit either other than a hole in his wallet monthly, so we switched him to Ultra power trace elements, and over night his brown SPS started to show signs of green, he now has full coloured SPS in less than a month.

Testimant to using a product that does what it claims :)

Hi

I see your problem

Please raise up your calcium and your dkh level
We had massive problems with Salifert Test Kit it showed
2 dkh to much !!! so you have in true 5,4
and the calcium level is also much to low
please check this again but normaly the tests for this are ok
greets claude

i made up a solution with the ALk to raise it on a drip and turned up the drip rate on the kalk reactor too

If you are willing to purchase the dosing pump assy i am happy for you to review the fauna balling method, throw out the calcium reactor and bring in the new!

Sadly I cant give away dosers :(

oh and get rid of the alk reactor also if you went balling! ;)

oh trust me i would love to get a doser then i would only have to measure what im using per day and then dose that.
and the same wit hthe kalk too
what are we looking at for a 3 pump doser any ways. I just bought 2x 4kg of Sea chem REEF complete and Reef builder forthe CAL and ALk can i use that with the dosing pump.

pm me or call me

How do we know thats not the normal progression of his tank and it would not have looked like that anyways?


As I have the baby sister tank :lol: , to Mike,s and see his on a daily basis almost and think about using your products on my 20g, {soon to be 30g}, sps tank, I wonder about the way a tank would look and not look if certain products and equipment are used or not.

Of course, one will never know but its something I have always wondered when reading articles on various methods of running a reef tank.

Hiya

this is a good thought and the only way of knowing is by reviews such as this and also own personal trials.

back in the UK with my 120 gal set up (no sump) I used to spend many $$$$ on additives because i was told I needed them, did I ever see any difference? Heck no! (I was not using fauna by the way) the tank was full of brown sps struggling to say the least.

When we emigrated I gave away the whole contents to a very deserved cause, who ran fauna products, within a month all corals had the colour they should do and he was fragging them as fast as he could keep up.

I have tried various additives in many years of fish keeping and taking my sales hat off (up to you to believe me or not that it is off) but fauna is a product that does exactly what it says "when added as directed". IT is not a product to throw in random doses and walk away, but follow the instructions and watch the results.

The guy I mentioned about the power traces changing his coral colour over night is Lorin on RC (kidney514) please feel free to ask him, I was not aware of this story until he came round to pick up supplies for a Montreal dealer on Sunday that has a huge repeat client base for the product range now. Dealers tend to test products like this first before commiting, and this dealer (amongst others) now rates the product very highly.

But back to your valid thought, I encourage everyone to try at least one product from Fauna maybe match to a product you already use, try it for a month and see the results.

good point Mike, I wonder if or does it matter if the tank is big or small. lots of people say that a small reef tank is harder to keep up with then a larger one due to the water chem changing. that would be cool to see thou 2 reviews with the same corals but different tanks. 150 VS 20 might be cool to track... where Doug has the same corals as I do since I they are fragged from my tank.....

:mrgreen:

Well I am sure you could "share" some of your ml for one week and see what happens ;)

Im taking pictures now for the review.

if you have watch my journea lthat i have been battling NO-2 and PHOSHATES now using the Fauna Marin they have pretty much gone away. and the phoshates are slowly going away , once i get the BIO from Mike at AQUA Digital then they will be HISTORY, A DEAD SEA SCROLL , A PAGE IN THE HISTORY BOOKS....

I did have a problem of getting my SPS to have some color and polyop extension now after using the fauna marin, the polyops are pretty much ripping out of the SPS and the clams are coloring up nicely too, the colors in the tank are looking alot better...

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...L/DSC06134.jpg
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have to show you this green Acro the PE is crazy about 20 mins of feeding the tank...
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http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...L/DSC06157.jpg
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check out hte color and the PE on this one
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http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...L/DSC06170.jpg

so you noice an improved colour difference with your corals?

All these corals that you are seeing here didnot have the color or the polyop extension until i got this stuff from Mike...

amazing stuff....
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Whoa :mrgreen:

thats series happy coral with awsome polyp extension, just wait until we get you on the power traces and those colours really pop!

The bio will be with you early next week and then say goodbye to phos and nitrate for good! BUT careful as you go with dosing that baby as I said!

A product is only as good as the results it gives :) Hard to disagree that Fauna Marin stuff works isnt it!

oh hell ya today the tank took i would say a 75% total turn around in color and the tank is super clear,,,, im HAPPY cant wait to get the PO4 out thou, i would love to run the phosban thou to get the po 4 down...

best stuff that i have seen and used... and this is the clam food that i'm using too. they have other stuff like the PO4 remover , NO 2 remover and low nutrients systems too ,

You can run phos if you want but run the decent stuff Ultra power phos, but then you cant run ultra Bio!

http://shop.faunamarin.de/product_in...PowerPhos.html

As i said above you just cant use this with bio or bak. Using both would remove the PO4 way too quickly and cause imbalances. (remember the golden sentance with fauna products "They do what they say they do" So dose exactly as instructed.

When it comes to PO4 you have two options

1. Ultra bio and Ultra Bak
2. ultra power Phos

best results are achieved with the bio's as it is adding good nutrients as well as removing bad. Better results are obtained this way

But i suggest trying the bio first, take the natural approach, then only if you do not wish to continue the bio you can switch back, but feel free to put the phos back on until it arrives.

There are so many different fauna products we have not even scratched the surface yet especially for removing phosphate at the same time as benefitting the system in other ways such as this product

Ultra Life!

http://shop.faunamarin.de/product_in...ltra-Life.html

Fauna marin has a product to suit ANY user, whether you want just plain old PO4 removal through granuler filtration or more complex but way more beneficial means as in this thread BIO and Bak, or mentioned above Ultra life mixed with Min-s you have a clam and coral food with a PO4 remover all in one.

Ultra Life is very popular and Ocean Aquatics sells a lot of this product..

if you want to learn more about Fauna's massive range please check out www.faunamarin.de there is something for everyone!

I know that Mike that is why I took the PHosban off in the first place, I was unsure or what to do and if it would hurt the Fauna stuff so i stopped. i havent ran Phos ban for like almost 2 weeks and i due notice it when its not running. SInce the BIo will be here this week no sense in running the phos for like 2-3 days

You should have the Bio soon

dose 3 drops every two days until your nutrients are down, then 1drop every 3 days.

ok So the trial is still going on strong and everything is looking amzing just recieved the ULTRA BIO. And Mike sent me out some MORE BAK and MIN S what a great guy. So as instructed i dosed the 3 drops as per rquested every 2 days. my PO4 was up last test was .03 so lets see what tey are this time in 4 days from now...

other then that started feeding the clams again was told to give it a week to allow the NO 3 to come down. the colors started up again just from the food.. man that stuff is wicked.... other then that i have head out on a RO/DI run will take some pic's once i get back hoem and post some of before and after....

Once we can see what way its going we can adjust your dosage accordingly

Mike i have a question for ya. After i get the nutrients down with the BIO and i go from 3 drops every 2 days to 1 drop every 2 days will the 1 drop actually keep up with the PO4.

And 3 drops for a 150 gal tank that is actually enough to bring the PO4 down to 0.

You have been started on a very baby dose to see how you tank reacts, you probably will need to increase this.

As for once the nutrients are down, you will just use a maintenance dose which will be worked out once the nutrients are down.

Think that answers?

sounds good

Great news
 

Hey there all Reefer's, well good news the PO4 Aka Phosphates are coming down all ready, man that was fast I just started to dose this stuff and already it taken the crap out.... start 2 days ago and it has gone from 0.03 to 0.01 and I was at half the dosing regime. the nitrates have came down too from 15PPM to 5 PPM so its all good.
here are some more pictures of the tank the colors are coming out awesome. I have started a mini movie to show you personal view ,so its uploading now

Im using the ULTRA BIO now and its seems to work really fast as Mike has stated. the clams appear to hav emore color then before:mrgreen:.

you want PE and COLORS CHECK THIS OUT
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this last guy has huge Pe and never had it for a while since i got him . will post the video of the tank here once its loaded up

Its looking great :)

Couple of things.

Test the tank again in two days, the Bio is working fast and you need to go on maintenance as soon as the pO4 drops, at this point you can add 1ml a day of MIN-s direct to the tank also as a tester watching out for any backward steps.

We need to get some better photos of the colours though ;)

ok no problem Mike I can take pic so i hav to sweet talk the Wife where is wqriting her exam here soon and I dont want to bug Her i have been adding the min s with the bak too since yesterday

Lookin' good Mike. Love that big squamosa.

No worries when you get a chance, :)

Sure is looking great though

Looks great :)

Once we have your nutrients down we can start you on the Power trace elements then you will see colours like you have never seen before :)

And just incase you though the success was limited to one tank

here is a tank that has been running the system for a few weeks also now

http://www.dansouliere.com/pictures/week1.jpg

Things to note are the SPS changing from brown to lighter natural colours, in time these will then become more vivid, you can just start to see the true colours emerging.

is there before pics or a thread on this system?

I cant put the link here due to hot linking but its on the RC forum in the fauna section under bio cube 29G

I will ask Dan who is also a forum member here (xenon) to post some pics here also.

Ok here is the great news, the PO 4 in the tnak is ) nadda
GONE ,
HISTORY
a DEAD SEA Scroll
A PAGE IN THE HISTORY BOOKS,


OH YA after what 10 days if that its reading ZERO on my SALIFERT TEST KIT at 80 F like you said MIKE.
the Nitrates are still at 5PPm i'm still needs to get them down. Im dosing 2ML every day for the nitrates, ALk been sitting at 8.6 DKH Cal is around 430 PPM so this is what I was doing, I kinda got the BIo mixed up for a bit.
Mike said to dose 3 drops every other day to slowly get the BIO going, after the 3rd day wasnt paying attention I was dosing .5 ml to the tank every day. then the last 3 days its been 1 ML and tonight man that stuff is strong its at 0 for PO4.
so this is what im at
2 ML for ULTRA BAK every day
1 ML for ULTRA BIO 1 ml every day for the last 3 days, now the PO 4 is 0.
2ML ULTRa MIN S every day

SO i take it that i can start my manitence dose for the BIO then now MIke is that correct.

PEOPLE if you wan results get this stuff OMG. Im not getting any thing for this stuff and man this is amazing stuff....... PM Mike Aqua Digital and he will explain it all to you. 30 sec's is what it takes me . and im ony on the PO 4 and the Nitrate removing ones and my tank is looking sweet and feeding the clams with CLAM FOOD WITH ULTRA MIN S and the SP are going retard for this stuff
I hav a person that is going to take some pictures i cant so you can see the fancy colors already... even my Kids are saying DADDY the tank is some colorful now.:mrgreen:
SO Mike I need the maintence dose i guess for the BIO

Your nitrates are fine every tank needs some nutrent level.

1ml of bio every 3 days and let me know after 7 days what the PO4 is then at and nitrate.

thats 1ml of bio EVERY THIRD DAY :mrgreen:

ok got ya 1 every 3 days and a day has 24 hours ...