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View Poll Results: Do you dose iodine? | |
Yes
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No
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No, but there is iodine in my water change water.
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What is iodine?
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06-27-2006, 10:33 AM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Plankton
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Pataskala, OH
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I use purple up which is a corraline fertilizer. It includes calcium, iodine, and a few other chemicals.
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20 gallon mini-reef
Fluval 204 canister filter(Media: carbon and phos-ban)
Aqua C Remora protein skimmer, 20 lbs. of live sand
35 lbs. of live rock, Satelite 50/50 compact lighting
Livestock: percula clown, six line wrasse, fire red shrimp, sand sifter starfish, 12 turbo and astrea snails, 1hermit crab(huge)
Additives: purple up, kent essential elements and coral vite, marine snow.
Coral: fungia, 2-finger leathers, colt coral, zooanthid colony rock, mushroom rock, button polyps | 
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08-02-2006, 09:16 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Vancouver Washington Age: 33
Posts: 281
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what iodine level do you like in your tank?? | |
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08-03-2006, 06:22 AM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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I dose when needed... never without testing. I dose seachem and use the seachem test kit also. I keep it at 0.06 wich is supposed to be the ocean iodine level.
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20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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08-03-2006, 10:04 AM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Duluth, Minnesota Age: 60
Posts: 249
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There is no sound reason to dose Iodine. Then there is the reliably of the test kits. There are only two in the world, both made by aquarium companies, so what doe that tell you. If you were into Marco's OK maybe
Iodine in Marine Aquaria: Part I Chemistry and the Aquarium
Iodine in Reef Tanks 2: Effects on Macroalgae Growth http://www.advancedaquarist.com/iss...il2003/chem.htm | |
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08-03-2006, 10:42 AM
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#16 (permalink)
| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: SF/Monterey Bay Area, CA
Posts: 1,755
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Well that answers my question Boomer. I need a professional grade kit for my work (one of the worlds largest phytoplankton producers) for our macro system. So just the Seachem and Salifert are my choices, and Salifert is easier to read then Seachem? Are they even accurate enough for me? I'm not talking a little reef tank, I'm talking closer to 1.5 million gallons at our facility 
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Gresham
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Feeding the reef... one polyp at a time... | |
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08-03-2006, 01:03 PM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: St. Louis
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Originally Posted by Boomer | When I saw the poll results, I was amazed!!! I was about to spend hours doing research to show that this is not a good idea. Luckily, Boomer succinctly said my thoughts in two sentences without me having to do the work. I do sometimes use diluted Lugol's solution as an antiseptic when fragging but dosing a reef tank is not a good idea. | |
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08-03-2006, 09:31 PM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Duluth, Minnesota Age: 60
Posts: 249
Karma: 40
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Gresham
I would stick with the Salifert but I think either are close enough. Do you have the newer Salifert that tests for iodide, iodate or molecular iodine ?
When you can test a sample and bring a sample to a real lab to see what you have or send it here. * ENC Labs - Chemical Analysis and Consulting
I forgot  Someone said they are using Purple-Up be carefull with this stuff. | |
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08-04-2006, 01:24 AM
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#19 (permalink)
| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: SF/Monterey Bay Area, CA
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Originally Posted by Boomer Gresham
I would stick with the Salifert but I think either are close enough. Do you have the newer Salifert that tests for iodide, iodate or molecular iodine ?
When you can test a sample and bring a sample to a real lab to see what you have or send it here. * ENC Labs - Chemical Analysis and Consulting
I forgot Someone said they are using Purple-Up be carefull with this stuff. | We have a few labs we use all ready, but we'd like to do it in house. We've got a few labs on site, just no iodine test kit I'll pick up a new Salifert tomorrow. Thanks for the lab link though, it's nice to have back-ups  Know any good guaranteed analysis labs I'd love to have back ups for the three I use all ready  | |
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08-04-2006, 12:31 PM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Duluth, Minnesota Age: 60
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The one I posted is a leader in the field. It is not a hobby lab for reef tanks Seawater is their specialty. | |
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