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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / June 2007DI Resin - silicate removal
Does anybody know if there resin that specifically targets silicates? --Kurt Yea, aluminum hydroxide, and ferric hydroxide. Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com KurtG wrote on 6/10/2007 2:40 PM: > Does anybody know if there resin that specifically targets silicates? > > --Kurt Yea Aluminum Oxide, and Ferric Oxide. Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com KurtG wrote on 6/10/2007 2:40 PM: > Does anybody know if there resin that specifically targets silicates? > > --Kurt More dumbass assumptins Wayne, They are not resins, they are actually............drum roll please....................you look it up your own f.cking self am not your lacky. Wayne you seem to reply just for the sake of replying, Is this a bad habit you have you know like an addiction to drugs, you just can not resist answering a post even if you do not have a f.cking clue! <<>>Yea Aluminum Oxide, and Ferric Oxide. <<>> <<>>Wayne Sallee <<>>Wayne's Pets <<>>Wayne@WaynesPets.com <<>> <<>>KurtG wrote on 6/10/2007 2:40 PM: <<>>> Does anybody know if there resin that specifically targets silicates? <<>>> <<>>> --Kurt ------- I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! Actually Aluminum Oxide, I don't thing iron bonds well to silicates :-) Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com Wayne Sallee wrote on 6/10/2007 3:01 PM: > Yea Aluminum Oxide, and Ferric Oxide. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> >> --Kurt But I would not worry about trying to take silicates out of the water. Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com Wayne Sallee wrote on 6/10/2007 4:39 PM: > Actually Aluminum Oxide, I don't thing iron bonds well to silicates :-) > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >>> >>> --Kurt > But I would not worry about trying to take silicates out of the water. Well, I think I convinced myself that I have very low silicates in my RO/DI water and tank. It looks like my tap water is about 2ppm, but my tank seems to have undetectable levels. My test is sensitive down to about 0.03. My diatoms are thick and unsightly. Within a few hours of cleaning the tank, I have a green haze back on the glass. Within 2-3 days, I can't even see through the glass. I'm down to only two turbos, but I have 50 ordered (still). My order is being held up, but it will ship this week. I think I'll just work on a refugium to grow chaeto and pods, and not worry about the diatoms for the moment. --Kurt That's incredibly fast for diatoms. With that kind of diatom growth, your turbos should be doing great. Are the turbos making paths on the glass? What about the sand and the gravel, how's it looking? What's causing your turbos to die? Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com KurtG wrote on 6/10/2007 7:45 PM: >> But I would not worry about trying to take silicates out of the water. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > --Kurt Also is there something not up to par with your algae magnet? The better you clean the glass, the longer it will take for diatoms to reappear. This is because diatoms can be left on the glass, and multiply. Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com Wayne Sallee wrote on 6/10/2007 9:11 PM: > That's incredibly fast for diatoms. With that kind of diatom growth, > your turbos should be doing great. Are the turbos making paths on the [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> >> --Kurt > Also is there something not up to par with your algae magnet? It seems fine. I occasionally clean it and it puts up billows of green clouds when I clean. I also scrape the glass occasionally, so I don't think it's the algae magnet. Quit w.nking off in the tank Kurt.....I know Wayne gets you excited, but enough is enough already, your gonna go blind! <<>>Wayne Sallee wrote: <<>>> Also is there something not up to par with your algae magnet? <<>> <<>>It seems fine. I occasionally clean it and it puts up billows of green <<>>clouds when I clean. I also scrape the glass occasionally, so I don't <<>>think it's the algae magnet. ------- I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! Well one thing about it, you have plenty of free phytoplankton for your filter feeders every time you clean the glass :-) Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com KurtG wrote on 6/10/2007 10:01 PM: >> Also is there something not up to par with your algae magnet? > > It seems fine. I occasionally clean it and it puts up billows of green > clouds when I clean. I also scrape the glass occasionally, so I don't > think it's the algae magnet. > Well one thing about it, you have plenty of free phytoplankton for your > filter feeders every time you clean the glass :-) I don't have too many filter feeders (unless you want to count sponges). Yea I was counting sponges :-) Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com KurtG wrote on 6/11/2007 7:23 AM: >> Well one thing about it, you have plenty of free phytoplankton for your >> filter feeders every time you clean the glass :-) > > I don't have too many filter feeders (unless you want to count sponges). > That's incredibly fast for diatoms. With that kind of diatom growth, > your turbos should be doing great. Are the turbos making paths on the > glass? What about the sand and the gravel, how's it looking? What's > causing your turbos to die? Yes, the turbos definitely make paths on the glass. I think the hermits killed off a number of turbos for there shells, and then it took me awhile to figure out that when a turbo lands on it's back, it can't get up. I now turn them back over when they accidentally get bumped by the algae magnet. I also feed my giant hermit once a week to keep him from preying on the turbos. The sand is okay. There are some brown areas, but between the blenny and 2 fighting conchs, it gets turned over frequently. I've been slowly adding more sand because I only have a 1/4" inch in spots. I also have lots of debris from turbo shells, etc. I've been removing a few of these whenever I do a water change to keep the sand sifters happy. I think it's sherlock homes reasoning time: "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth." Phosphate? I'm thinking the phosphate reactor is working well enough to keep the hair algae under control, but it's still not good enough for the diatoms. It seems that the only time the diatoms get knocked back is when I change media in the phosphate reactor. I get 2-3 days of clear glass, and then I'm back to the usual. It keeps the hair algae from growing for about a month. I was thinking that it was silicates, but now phosphate seems more plausible. I'll order a more sensitive phosphate test and keep working on the fug. --Kurt Kurt are you using a RODI? >> That's incredibly fast for diatoms. With that kind of diatom growth, your >> turbos should be doing great. Are the turbos making paths on the glass? [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > --Kurt > Kurt are you using a RODI? Definitely. I just changed the resin when TDS reached 6. Also another thing you can do is to put something in your canopy to block the light from shining directly on the front glass. Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com KurtG wrote on 6/11/2007 7:17 AM: >> Kurt are you using a RODI? > > Definitely. I just changed the resin when TDS reached 6. |
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