My 29g Reef Log

[Michael Marino]

LONG ISLAND TAPWATER

CREDITS BELOW

Contaminant (Units) Date
Sampled MCL MCLG Max. Amount
Detected
Range:
Low – High Typical Source​

Barium (ppb) 10/06 2000 2000 22 2.0 – 22 Naturally occurring
Chlorides (ppm) 10/06 250 N/A 16.4 8.3 – 16.4 Naturally occurring or indicative of road salt contamination
Iron (ppb)​

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7 10/06 300 N/A 990 110 – 990 Naturally occurring
Manganese (ppb) 8 10/06 300 N/A 122 ND – 122 Naturally occurring
Nickel (ppb) 10/06 100 N/A 4.3 2.4 – 4.3 Naturally occurring
Nitrates as N (ppm) 10/06 10 10 0.04 ND – 0.04 Erosion of natural deposits; runoff from fertilizers and septic tanks.
Sodium (ppm) 9 10/06 None N/A 14 6.0 – 14.0 Naturally occurring; road salt; water softeners
Sulfate (ppm) 10/06 250 N/A 29.1 5.0 – 29.1 Naturally occurring
Turbidity (NTU units) 10/06 5 N/A 1 ND – 1.0 Soil runoff
Zinc (ppm) 10/06 5 N/A 0.05 ND – 0.050 Naturally occurring
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Physical Parameters & Unregulated Substances​

Contaminant (Units) Date
Sampled
Maximum
Amount Detected
Range:
Low – High Typical Source​

Alkalinity (ppm) 10/06 47.8 31.6 – 47.8 N/A
Aluminum (ppb) 10/06 121 12 – 121 Naturally occurring
Calcium (ppm) 10/06 21 16.3 – 21.0
Naturally occurring; water treatment
additive
Calcium Hardness (ppm) 10/06 49.5 40.8 – 49.5 N/A
Color (units) 10/06 5 ND – 5
Presence of metals such as copper, iron
and manganese
Corrosivity (Langlier Index)​

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12 10/06 -1.77
(0.51) –
(-1.77)
N/A
Hardness, Total (ppm) 10/06 62.2 45.6 – 62.2 N/A
Magnesium (ppm) 10/06 4.4 0.8 – 4.4 Naturally occurring
Odor (units) 10/06 1 ND – 1
Natural sources; Organic or inorganic
pollutants originating from municipal or
industrial discharges.
pH (units) 13 10/06 9.1 7.0 – 9.1 N/A
Silica (ppm) 10/06 19 ND – 19
Naturally occurring; water additive used
to control discolorations due to iron.
Strontium (ppb) 10/06 54 ND – 54 Naturally occurring
Temperature (oF) 10/06 69 55 – 69 N/A
Total Dissolved Solids [TDS] (ppm) 10/06 116 84 – 116 N/A
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Water Information Sources​

New York State Department of Health​

1-518-402-7713 • www.health.state.ny.us​

Nassau County Health Department​

516-571-3323 • www.co.nassau.ny.us/health​

New York State Department of Public Service​

1-800-342-3377 • www.dps.state.ny.us​

US Environmental Protection Agency​

www.epa.gov/safewater​

Safe Drinking Water Hotline​

1-800-426-4791​

American Water Works Association​

www.awwa.org​

Water Quality Association​

www.wqa.org​

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[Michael Marino]

Hey guys,
Sorry for not posting a while, basicly everyday Ive been doing at least 2 -3 hours reasearch and started solving my own questions. My Light Is comming in Friday Sadly ahah its only been like a 1 week but feels forever. Cycling is done.
Just bought
Kalkwasser
and Kent Phytoplankton or something ( green bottle )

So all is well how are you guys

 

[Germanman]

havening some issues but im doing good! glad to hear ur on track and hitting the books!

 

[Michael Marino]

hitting the books!

First formost, glad your doing well.
With the quote ahaha HITING THE BOOKS DOESNT EXSPLAIN REASEARCH.
LFS after LFS. READING HOURS b4 sleep and ect. Man I gotta know b4 i buy.

 

[Michael Marino]

ONE FAST QUESTON!.................

WHERES JOJO!!!! I have heard from him

 

[Germanman]

hes taking some time off due to some personal reasons last time i talked to him.

 

[Michael Marino]

Thanks German, thats a shame hope all is going well for him hes an important elment here in AC.

 

[Michael Marino]

new lighting
new cleanup crew 3 Herms and 3 Nas Snals

By Rob Taylor
in the news

The orange and white clownfish star of the hit cartoon movie "Finding Nemo" really is able to find his own way home after spending months at sea, an Australian-led team of international researchers said on Friday.
"When they are out in the open water they are actually quite sophisticated. They can swim well, they can smell, they can see, they can hear well, and they use a whole suite of senses," joint team leader Glenn Almany told Reuters.
Studying a tiny coral reef in Papua New Guinea, the researchers found 60 percent of baby clownfish find their way back to their home reef -- only 300 meters (1,000 feet) wide -- after being swept into the open ocean at birth.
The fish were identified using a world-first tagging method in which adult clownfish and butterflyfish were injected with a harmless barium isotope which they then passed on to their offspring, allowing identification of their juveniles.
The finding, announced in the international journal Science, will help researchers understand the extent to which young fish return to their home area or go off to interbreed with more distant populations. That in turn could help determine which populations needed protection or better management for sustainable fishing.
Almany said the team still had no idea how the clownfish knew which reef they came from, or how far they traveled in open sea during a journey lasting around 11 days.
"How they actually determine whether that reef is home or not is anyone's guess, but as an educated guess I would say that there might be some sort of chemical imprinting going on when they are born," he said.
The team of Australian, French and U.S. scientists, working out of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at Queensland's James Cook University, planned follow up studies in Australia with larger fish species.
Almany said researchers found a similar result to clownfish for butterflyfish, although the two species had very different breeding strategies. Clownfish adults closely guarded their eggs in a nest and butterfly fish gave no parental care to their offspring, which stayed at sea for around 38 days.
"We've got two different species with vastly different strategies, vastly different periods of time in open water, and yet we find similar results. So we are trying to get whether this is a general pattern," he said.

 

[justkillin_time]

Looking great man!

Keep it up, nice lighting. Makes me want to be impatient and continue with my 37g.

I must be patient!!

 

[Michael Marino]

THANKS JKT... I am working on it towday i was gonna go pick up some corals but my cousins bday is today. Tommrow Ill add more, Thanks for your appriceation, and if i can do it you can believe me.