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Old 01-08-2009, 02:22 AM
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yes i have 150 total gal and i do 5 gal every Sun
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Old 01-08-2009, 02:26 AM
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Fauna recommend for any system 10% a week or 25% every two weeks. this is irrelvant if you are using their products or not
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ok then its 10 per week that i will start then starting this Sat morning with my Daughter.
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This will help reduce your PO4.

Red turf algea reacts to raises in PO4 so before you do your water change on Saturday do another PO4 heat test. Then next week you will have the Bak and can start reducing those nasty nutrients.
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Getting some Turf algae now on the rocks, Mike at Aqua digital told me that PO 4 will cause Red Turf then so once i get the new Trial stuff like BAK and other stuff I will start to dose that that has been stated to me and ease off on the Min S to 1 ml to allow the BAK to eat away at the PO4 the little that i have i guess is making a huge mess in my tank........

so Doing is been put on hold for the separate Ultra min S and i will be just feeding 1 time per day with the clam food and Ultra Min S added to mix the food.
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Yep.

The clam food is fine you can carry on, i was not aware you were feeding up to 3 times a day, so apologies for not picking that up and please carry on normal dosing once a day.

So Combine the O/D on the food with any extra Min-S added to the system and you will raise your nutrients. The first thing that will transpire will be Algea, namely those associated with PO4 deposits.

As the PO4 heat test showed you did have a level to start with so the seed was there. So to bring this back down you are being given Ultra Bak

Argh are you see where this is going now

Basically you have the building blocks of an low nutrient system

A Low nutrient system is

1. A bacteria carrier (zeo lite rock)
2. A high bacterial food (Ultra Bak)
3 Replacment positive nutrients (Ultra Min S)

Now that does not mean you have to have the full works but you can play with key ingredients in the Fauna Marin Ultra Lith system to meet the needs of your tank, in your case a slight high nutrient level that can be brought in check just by using Ultra Bak!

I am pleased to see where this review is expanding, I think there is a lot to learn from this. So far we have seen how amazingly well Ultra clam works (lets brush over the over feeding for a minute ) and we have seen how well a system reacts to just one element of the fauna Ultra Lith system, that being Min-S. Now everyone can see how Ultra bak can be used to bring slight algea issues back under control.

lets not detract too far from the main review point, that being the ultra Clam, but I do think this is a damn good evaluation of how versatile the Fauna range really is

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I'm curious thou I have been seeing that soem people out there are saying that they do a 25% water change on there tanks either weekly or semi monthly and they are using the Fauna Marin supplies. but when you look at that when you are doing 25% of your system worht in NSW wouldnt using the Fauna not really matter. your getting all the proper supplements from NSW then why would you be using the Fauna Marin, if you are taking the PO4 and the NO2,3 out with the water changes
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