Salinity Problems

[maxalmon]

Eric,...You and me are on the same page....I'm still trying to put everything into perspective, it's a lot of info and will deserve some serious thought.
I kinda stumbled onto this subject a few weeks back, I'm still trying to get a total understanding of how everything works..insane, yeah....but when you start to break things down and understand why things happen not based on anything you've read or seen, then you get that "Blam!" , Ok, that makes sense and then you start to combine all this information thats usually off the charts for most reefers and you get this feeling for how a marine tank actually works and thrives. And then everytime you turn around there's something else to learn....

 

[maxalmon]

Originally Posted by tinmanny
a person who has different salinity in all the tanks and is concerned with buying more why not go to a good sg level in all tanks and then moving and buying fish is not a problem
J.M.O.
D'ho....how simple is that......

 

[reefkprz]

I agree. it would be simplest to conform one level through out all the tanks. and not worry about the stress of varying levels of salinity and osmoregulation. but I am still digging to find more recent information on osmoregulation as most of the information i'm finding is from the 70's and 80's. its one of those abstract subjects that fascinate me about this hobby and have drawn me in so deep my head is barely above tank water (pardon the bad pun)

 

[maxalmon]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
I agree. it would be simplest to conform one level through out all the tanks. and not worry about the stress of varying levels of salinity and osmoregulation. but I am still digging to find more recent information on osmoregulation as most of the information i'm finding is from the 70's and 80's. its one of those abstract subjects that fascinate me about this hobby and have drawn me in so deep my head is barely above tank water (pardon the bad pun)
It has a medical designation of "Cranial Implossion (sp)".....not covered by most HMO's

 

[tinmanny]

please let me know where you find up to date information I would love to read it also some times little things take up the whole mind and make it zone untill we understand it on a higher level than we even need to which makes us reef crazies
Manny

 

[maxalmon]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
its one of those abstract subjects that fascinate me about this hobby and have drawn me in so deep my head is barely above tank water (pardon the bad pun)
The next house will more than likely have a fully custom research room for my odd little projects and theories I've developed, seriously not interested in another DT...I've developed a good network of reefers to bounce ideas off of..I'm working on serveral ideas that I'll post some post or pre pics of the basic projects....I will say this, corals will encrust a dead coral shell much faster than any manmade substrate. A couple of projects I've been working on...Calcium attraction, corals are drawn to what they need most.... Kinda stuned that a basic M digitata would encrust a calcium based frag plug with a measured and noticible growth rate, while an exact clone would simply exist on a manmade reefplug with no growth, but look the same with respect to color, polyp extension, feeding etc..One grows and thrives the other sits and waits, only difference is the subsrate..

 

[maxalmon]

Originally Posted by maxalmon
The next house will more than likely have a fully custom research room for my odd little projects and theories I've developed, seriously not interested in another DT...I've developed a good network of reefers to bounce ideas off of..I'm working on serveral ideas that I'll post some post or pre pics of the basic projects....I will say this, corals will encrust a dead coral shell much faster than any manmade substrate. A couple of projects I've been working on...Calcium attraction, corals are drawn to what they need most.... Kinda stuned that a basic M digitata would encrust a calcium based frag plug with a measured and noticible growth rate, while an exact clone would simply exist on a manmade reefplug with no growth, but look the same with respect to color, polyp extension, feeding etc..One grows and thrives the other sits and waits, only difference is the subsrate..
Can you tell that I have a little too much free time

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by maxalmon
The next house will more than likely have a fully custom research room for my odd little projects and theories I've developed, seriously not interested in another DT...I've developed a good network of reefers to bounce ideas off of..I'm working on serveral ideas that I'll post some post or pre pics of the basic projects....I will say this, corals will encrust a dead coral shell much faster than any manmade substrate. A couple of projects I've been working on...Calcium attraction, corals are drawn to what they need most.... Kinda stuned that a basic M digitata would encrust a calcium based frag plug with a measured and noticible growth rate, while an exact clone would simply exist on a manmade reefplug with no growth, but look the same with respect to color, polyp extension, feeding etc..One grows and thrives the other sits and waits, only difference is the subsrate..
so when am I moving in?

 

[maxalmon]

They should designate another, new forum to stuff like this.......Hey,...Knock, knock,....SWF.com please, oh please make a new forum geared towards homebased marine research idea's!!!.............Ok,...enough sucking up,...any chance?

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by maxalmon
They should designate another, new forum to stuff like this.......Hey,...Knock, knock,....SWF.com please, oh please make a new forum geared towards homebased marine research idea's!!!.............Ok,...enough sucking up,...any chance?
maybe a forum for "In home propagation and research" I would love a propagation forum, no one ever seems to be able to find the numerous threads on propagating even though one is the first thread in the archives. and I have the word frag or fragging in all the titles.

 

[maxalmon]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
maybe a forum for "In home propagation and research" I would love a propagation forum, no one ever seems to be able to find the numerous threads on propagating even though one is the first thread in the archives. and I have the word frag or fragging in all the titles.
This would elevate SWF to the next level