Ultra Clam review thread

[Aqua-Digital]

some salts work better with Lith systems than others, Claude has done many experiments and found the one he suggest works best with the Fauna Lith products due to the chemistry of the salt and what additives are used in their production, this can lead to too many trace elements in the tank which your clams will not like

By changing to the salt claude recommends you will have a balanced system with only the trace elements that your system requires at the right amounts also

[Fauna Marin]

Hi

hmm i did not know the carbon did you use ist longer time yet
and did you check the PH Level after using it

RC Salt is made for reef tanks IO for fish tank
the IO salt is not as stabil as the RC salt
thats the reason why i said better use this
greets claude

[Fauna Marin]

HI

What i need is also your Po4 level and PH Swing

Did you have a sandbed or normal Berlin System ?

Greets claude

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by Fauna Marin

HI

What i need is also your Po4 level and PH Swing

Did you have a sandbed or normal Berlin System ?

Greets claude

I will take another PO 4 test tonight
I hav a 2-3 " sand bed

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by Aqua-Digital

some salts work better with Lith systems than others, Claude has done many experiments and found the one he suggest works best with the Fauna Lith products due to the chemistry of the salt and what additives are used in their production, this can lead to too many trace elements in the tank which your clams will not like

By changing to the salt claude recommends you will have a balanced system with only the trace elements that your system requires at the right amounts also

Thats makes sence, might have to look into gettting RC salt now ...

[Skimmerking]

OK the trial is going really good IMO. I have seen lots and huge PE on the SPS.

since the 27 of Jan weekly water changes on SUN
still running BLACK diamond Carbon in TLf reactor.
increased to 2ML per day with the ULTRA BAK and ULTRA MIN s

CLaude here are the lasest test s for ya ...
PO4 0.03 ppm it is going up from 0.1 to .03ppm
NO3 10PPM
ALK 7.4
CAL 350
PH 8.2

All tests are from Salifert.

I dont know why my PO4 is going up i thought that this stuff the BAK is suppose to take it out...

may be im not seeing somthing. i have put off on the clam food for 1 week so far too.. my be its the min S doing it..

[Aqua-Digital]

Hi

The Bio and Bak will bring down the PO4,

Min-S can not increase PO4 as there is no PO4 in it, it is an amino acid no organic compound, the PO4 will be coming from residual in the tank which we discussed on the phone that the Bio will resolve combined with the Bak. This is being sent today.

As we discussed on the phone the first clam would never latch from new and was always wandering around, this is a clear sign of weakness and time will always weed out the weak, the other one as you said never grew or opened up so again, the strong will thrive the really weak no matter what you did will fade. Ultra Clam food in many occassions have saved ropey clams from going over the edge, but that is dependant on some very regular small target feeding and also that they have not gone too far already. We have a dealer in Ottawa that target feeds his new imports for two weeks before releasing for sale and has not had a loss since. (he will be a sponsor here very soon also )

With the new dosing of clam - Bak - min-S and the Bio for your PO4 within 1 week you will see even greater results.

[Skimmerking]

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.

[Aqua-Digital]

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

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Aqua-Digital

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

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 , 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.