As I lay here in bed, I've been having thoughts of either experiments or ways to set up a fish room and connect aquariums.
I have been told that you can use water from one aquarium to do a water change in another. I wonder if this is totally true, or do you have to add trace elements?
Another thought that I had is that pouring the waste water from my tank down the drain kinda bugs me. If you live close enough to an ocean, could you make salt from distilling equal parts ocean water and tank water? My theory is that the real ocean water should have enough trace elements that get tanken out of your tank water to be able to replace them when distilled down to just salt.
I know that distilling water takes a lot of energy, and these days, energy isn't cheap. Can you take the pure water from the distallaton process and use a solar pannel to split the hydrogen from the oxygen by electolosys, and the ignite the hydrogen gas as a pilot light to do a slow boil for the salt?
I read in Anthony Calfo's Book on Coral Propagation, that you can use aptasia as a kind of biological filter to take larger nutrient particals out of the water column. Most of us would shy away from that, since aptaisia is considered a pest and we don't want it in our display tanks. Could you connect a clam run directly after an aptasia tank to use the clams to filter out the baby aptasia? If not, how about a tank for pepperment shrimp after the clams to naturally keep the aptasia under controll?
- Chuck
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You can use water from one tank to make a water change in another, but that "other" tank is usually a FO. As the water change takes out excess nutrients from the reef tank and fish can handle that small amount of nitrates. There is plenty trace elements for the fish.
ReplyDeleteYou really never add trace elements to salt as it has enough in it already.
Distilling water is simply out of the question, this hobby is already expensive enough. that water will wind up in the ocean sooner or later. It doesn't just dissapear from earth!
Aptasia is too invasive to use as filtration. I would go with chaeto in a refugium, which is easy to remove when it successfully takes out the excess nutrients.