Don' over dose your reef tank with iodine.
Reef tank 9 years ago 19,085 views
Understanding iodine in a reef tank. How much iodine is to much. We keep so many things in our tank it is difficult to say what = an overdose. 0.04-0.06 ppm is good, over 0.2 is not so good!!. There are more forms of iodine in a reef tank than just iodide and iodate. Organic and inorganic iodine are forms of iodine. They are all iodine, just with different amounts of oxigen, and or carbon. They can change from one form to another in you tank, and with test kits not being able to test for organic and inorganic iodine, it makes testing for the total amount of iodine difficult. Salifert is a good test kit, as it will test both iodide and iodate. Most other test kits only test for one form of iodine.
Your Softie tank can live with low Iodine levels, try that with an SPS Acropora tank for example, it is not happening. Your not comparing apples to apples.. Not all salt mixes are the same, nor the consumption ratio of each animal. So your blanket statement is incorrect. Regardless of these soon to retire/ archaic " reef chemists" out in the industry. It depends on what you keep. If all parameters are in check, ALK, CA, Mg, and proper husbandry/lighting/temp/filtration,etc. is done but still certain SPS corals lighten up, or start doing poorly, suspect lack of Iodine. Oh, for those who don't add anything without testing, listen up. That logic lacks the scientific method for problem solving. Dose 1/4 or 1/2 of the instructions for a select time period to analyze your results. Still don't want to dose? Send it to a lab like ICP OES and call it a day. Enough said, dag that tank in the video is ugly.
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Salifert do admit that their test for iodine does not always work. As I've said, and you have found out, dosing and testing is difficult. Most food contains iodine so there is often no need to dose.
Try making up a fresh batch of sea water, and testing that. Try getting a sample of sea water from your local fish store and testing that, to see if the test gives you a result. Most tanks have around 0.12-0.18 ppm total iodine, so if your not getting that kind of result, or al least natural sea water levels of 0.06 total iodine, then I would suspect you have a faulty test kit. If you do not do water changes, then this can allow iodine to build up, through feeding your fish. Some salt mixes are low on iodine, due to high levels in food, so large water changes could be removing it!!.
All I can say is that I have a sunsun power head that is over 2 years old, and it is silent.
They should be compleatly unde rthe water. Mine is rated for 3000 litres per hour. I don't think they should be used with a controller. It would have come with a controller, if it was ment to work with one.
Trout can strand upto 300ppm iodate.
Most bugs in salt water, like daphnia can only stand upto 0.2ppm iodate!!!.
My sunsun power heads are 2 years old and still working fine. They are silent, as a power head should be if it is under water. If yours is noisey then there must be something wrong with it!!!. The only thing with the sunsun is they are quite large, and so not so good for nano tank.
Never realy had a grudge against you, just the infomation you were giving out, that could have been bad for other reefers, and the fact you were not willing to admit you were wong, and not able to teach the hobby!!!.
I have to admit I though your lasted vid on equipment choices was very good!!!,.
He never wanted to admit it, but there are people out there who belive this Sh*t!!!.