Can a higher reef tank pH double coral growth? | BRStv Investigates

[@unclefreshreef4318]

I would like to thank BRS, WWC, Ecotech and Neptune for all the resources they give back to the hobby!

[@Iffrat]

I don't even have a reef tank and i geek out at these videos... THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME! Love it when science gets mixed in with a hobby in a way that it doesn't really play a part in at this level currently.

[@brianmagee5847]

Your approach to separating the science from the myth in this hobby has been an amazing breathe of fresh air. You have my business when ever possible. Thank you!

[@dianaaliprandi]

Thank you to all the companies and individuals who helped in this.

[@rodrigoaguileraolvera3524]

This is pretty awesome. I can't wait for this update. Thanks guys for all the work!

[@GraafAli]

Thank you all for this. These videos give me confidence in my equipment acquisition

[@456diablo2112]

I can't thank you and your sponsors enough for this work. In fact, I watched your entire 52 weeks of reefing series, and its been essential as I setup my first Reef tank. Your contributions to this hobby are fantastic, and most (MOST!) appreciated by me and other new reefers, I'm sure. I'll be following this experiment closely. My (new 3 month) tank is running between 7.9 and 8.0 using outside air and a reverse light cycle algae reactor. Be interested to see if I have to take more proactive steps to speed up growth of all the new frags in my tank.

[@qutabo]

i just got back to reefing and need to learn alot and you guys at BRSTV is now my standard for getting knowledge, keep it up, we need it since you go the extra mile!

[@maximaman77]

I love what you guys are doing with trhis test! Ph is something I have struggled with as I have my entire system in a finished basement. Running an outside airline for the skimmer has helped but getting above 8.15 doesn't happen often, only when the weather permits a window being cracked. Even then, the upper teens is the best I've seen.

[@lucamartino3007]

Great job! I am loving the companies that support these experiments. Hats off to Neptune, Ecotech, and WWC.

[@chadgau2808]

Big thanks BRS, Neptune Systems, EcoTech Marine, and WWC!

[@XRayGoreX]

I'm looking forward to seeing how this experiment pans out simply for the chemistry aspect of it all. The fact that I may be able to apply some of this to my reef tanks is just a bonus! Big props to the BRS team, Neptune, WW Corals, and Ecotech for making this happen.

[@jamesonity]

Anxious for the updates for Ph and Alkalinity studies!! Appreciate the support of the sponsors. It makes a big difference and commits me to the brands!

[@Justindejager205]

My thanks to BRS, Ecotech, Neptune and WWC. These videos are an incredible contribution to the knowledge pool and are shaping the future of the hobby.

[@sheenaharris8218]

yes another major contribution to all reefers you guys rock

[@YouLoveRyanSeacrest]

I'm really loving the BRS Investigates series, as of late it's been my go-to for sciencey / nature type media. I'm sure everyone also appreciate's knowing that BRS is the only shop willing to test how effective it's products actually are. As always, I'm looking forward to future updates, thanks BRS.

[@anthonyragan2696]

You do the most information-packed videos, fresh or salt, on KZbin. Great work.

[@cryptobulldog2563]

Big tank you... to the sponsors. Awesome of you guys to help people do large tests like this~!

[@telegraham]

Thank you BRS, Neptune Systems, Ecotech Marine, and WWC for helping to eliminate the guesswork from a hobby we all love and support. Y’all are awesome!

[@Sysgen]

Thank you BRS, Neptune, EcoTech, amd WWC for the time, energy and money to help us reefers to better understand the the hobby we love!

[@DrinkhtooO]

I'm going to tell you right now your experiment is going to work. For a year I struggled just to keep coral, the one's I did never grew. I added a homemade co2 scrubber and was able to get my ph almost to 8.2 and boom everything took off.

[@MrCornerstone818]

thanks to BRS, Neptune, Ecotech, and WWC for putting on this experiment.

[@adyp81]

Yeah so much work, a proper laboratory lol. Love how much you give back to the community, the knowledge I mean not the giveaway. Makes what you do a lot more than just a money making business. Thanks a million guys

[@sheldonjessup]

Thank you to all the companies and parties involved to bringing this type of video to the community!

[@kielfriedt]

Wow... Big thumbs up for the sponsors. I will buy from these sponsors just because of these videos. Keep up the BRS investigates! Looking forward to the next one.

[@dlester8641]

Thank you Neptune, Ecotech ,and WWC keep up the good work !

[@jim28fl]

Great job as always! PH is a hot topic right now as is ALK stability on the forums. This is going to be a great experiment. I personally say thank you everyone involved in bringing this information to the BRS community. I think all three of the companies named in helping with this test ECOTECH, Neptune, and WWC are great stand up folks who care about the Critters as much or more than making money in all this. Looking forward to seeing BRS at RAP Orlando again this year.

[@Nifilheimur]

BRStv is my favorite youtube channel. now only if you would open up a Europe branch so one could do business with you that would be awesome.

[@Stickysynapse]

+ Asia

[@00Mass00]

Exactly my thought! Germany would be a great location because of it's big market.

[@gbj6581]

ECOTECH, NEPTUNE & WWC + BRS. Thank you. It shows you are LEADERS in the Industry when you push for more knowledge based reefing. THANK YOU!!!! My next dream tank will feature Radion lights and pumps, an Apex and will start to buy corals from WWC!!!

[@ederquiroz4316]

Special thanks to Ecotech, Neptune, WWC, and BRS(Andrew) for working together and generously providing equipment/livestock an power needed to further investigate and enhance reef keeping.

[@mtkregs]

Great experiment! Will you be placing an opaque barrier between the tanks to prevent lighting advantages to the middle tanks?

[@InappropriateReefer]

This is awesome, thanks BRS, Neptune, EcoTech, WWC! 🤓👍

[@garethbontorno1985]

Fantastic experimental design. Look forward to the results. Great job BRS.

[@tracydoll7910]

It's fantastic that WWC, Ecotech and Neptune would pitch in to help with this investigation. It's great to see that others besides just BRS care about more than just selling the product!

[@HaubFather]

Thanks for the hard work and the sponsors for hooking all of the community up with solid tests and data.

[@wildgoalie30]

Thansk for doing these experiments and furthering the success of the hobby. We can’t get better without trying new ideas.

[@davidburnside8370]

Definitely shout out to BRS, Ecotech, Neptune, and WWC for their participation in this. This is how we continue to get quality content from BRS AND let's not forget the awesome giveaways they do every week. Thanks!

[@karankhanna6820]

Great !! Exactly what was missing from this hobby.. definitive answers .. looking forward. 😊

[@tommyg4484]

We REALLY appreciate your info! Thanx to BRS, Neptune, EcoTech & WWCorals!!

[@kidsundance2836]

Nice reporting of chemistry related to water quality and making my coral grow faster!! I do a 20% every 10 day's in my 150 and two 400 gallon. Love the beauty and my friend's don't understand it is also a very labor intensive every day and maintenance, never give it a second thought the visual results stun newbies to the hobby.Thanks very nice!

[@Brian1f1]

Very cool of you, your business partner, and the three vendors.

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When you buy from BRS you support the advancement our hobby.

[@bobbygreen2683]

This video has perfect timing as I'm battling ph Issues myself. I have way to many mouth breathers in my house and co2 has been around 1200 PPM on my detector and as my ph dropped sps started bleaching

[@kenberardi8965]

Thanks for another great test guys! Love to see all these trial results that are impossible to test at home! Great collaboration!

[@ArrickthaRed]

This is a very good test. Thanks to all that contributed. This is knowledge we could all use.

[@eranschau]

Can’t wait for the results! I had a CO2 scrubber on my skimmer for a while but it was a bit of a maintenance headache so I quit using it. If this tear does show that much increased growth I’ll sure be adding it back to the system!

[@anthonyfairthorne380]

Another fantastic experiment that will be a huge help to so many people! Loving your work guys! Just wish we could purchase from you from the UK !!

[@anthonymurphy3101]

Love your videos the detail and knowledge is what helped me get into the hobby and has helped more than I will ever be able to say. Thank you and Neptune and eco tech for making these possible

[@00Mass00]

Amazing effort guys! Can't wait for the results! you just might change the future of reefing!

[@vascojardim6703]

Back to greatness 😊👍🏻. I must say I am not a fan of the ULM series but that would be a whole other topic. I believe what you are doing for the hobby is awesome and priceless! I see on forums naysayers saying you do this just to sell goods and I honestly do not understand how can people conclude such a thing from your videos. I guess most do not even watch them. I believe you guys are giving much more than your fare share to the hobby so thank you for that. The only thing I would add would be adding a kalk based test tank as. PH enhancing method. I understand kalk adds several other variables but in the end all of these are biological and chemical reactions and kalk is something that a lot of reefers can easily use. Keep up the good work 👍🏻

[@AnthonyPaun]

shout out to the companies that helped out with this amazing experiment! including bulkreefsupply

[@tonyv3793]

Wow, I love that you guys are doing this. Can't wait for the results.

[@Danzo285]

This is why your the best. Testing ! Trying it out and shareing it with the world

[@MARINETV]

an other super sweet experiment and test which can't be done at home thanks to BRS , Rayn you are awesome

[@ReRe-yl6dq]

Gotta be one of the best series topics so far, I want a time machine to go see the results now :)

[@TheAshton217]

I am so appreciative of everything BRS does for the hobby by the service they provide and content they create. Awesome business model. Now if only I could win a give away my customer loyalty would be officially solidified 😂

[@mongoose0307]

Setting up a reef tank alone is RIP expensive let alone the research you guys are doing to keep people informed. Keep up the good work and one day everyone will have successful sps reef tanks at home.

[@algawura2]

This will be an interesting experiment to monitor. Sounds like a good setup for testing the theory on the impact of pH on coral growth rates.

[@2tonedc5]

Thanks to all the suppliers

[@avishvohra3057]

cant wait for these results. Also really like the ULM series > is uv worth it?!. BRS has is my newest fav channel to watch !

[@VikramSudera]

Another awesome experiment. Cant wait to see the results

[@mili-nium-etalsilversliver1999]

Thank you for all your work. I personally try to keep my tank around 8.4 with alkaline buffer. 7 milimeters almost everyday. I also feed my corals (predominately anemones) reef frenzy and they have grown alot in a couple of months. I know a guy with a great tank and he even keeps his pH around 8.9. This is going to be a great experiment and looking forward to the results.

[@JayMoodley]

Great video looking forward to the follow up videos

[@michaelhoward7115]

Big thanks to BRS, WWC, Neptune and Ecotech for putting back into the hobby. Oh and Ryan, if you'll ship to Australia we'll buy from you!

[@bearded-flipflop7122]

Thanks for doing this. Can't wait for results. As my tank suits at the 8ph mark.

[@CoralEuphoria]

Great work guys thanks for sharing!👊

[@ReefMan]

It will be really interesting to see how this turns out!

[@kristopherlandmeier2740]

I'm super excited to see how this will turn out. I am constantly battling a pH that hovers around 7.8 to 8.0. I can't seem to get any higher. I've been debating on whether or not to get a CO2 scrubber. This will maybe help make my decision.

[@150gallontritonoasisreefta3]

Looking forward to seeing the results.

[@coleweede1953]

Brs is why I look forward to Friday

[@ryan.maccallum8213]

I would love ,and need some new gear to upgrade my system to get the best out of my tank!!! Great video as always

[@wrassehole4172]

Is part 2 out yet? Also I think it would be really interesting to see a hybrid between this and the elevated element test you did. It would be interesting to see if it would be a similar increase or if it would increase even more.

[@wrassehole4172]

I may set up a frag tank and give it a try myself to. Be nice to grow out and get a couple frags then transfer the colony's to my display tank.

[@eldominicano523]

Thank, Neptune, Ecotech and WWC

[@jasepoag8930]

This is the kind of stuff I like to see. The ULM series is great if you're setting up a new tank, but mine is already set up. I wonder how much pH swings affect things. Mine swings from 7-85-8.3 every day.

[@SuperBacon17yt]

10/10 FOR SCIENCE! AND FOR REEFERS EVERYWHERE!

[@robertseigneurie5308]

Nice testbed and approach, On one of the 2 control tanks, I really wish you would run the triton method to compare results vrs traditional WC. Thanks Ryan for Your Cash, Time, and effort to do all of these things. When I see these series I think Payroll and cost associated with each, and Thank you Andrew for not saying ENOUGH ALREADY!...Nice work on the build Arron. Thanks again WWC-NEPTUNE-ECOTECH, as all three are already in my tank.

[@error50012]

Waiting for the results, are we going to get an update at 3 months?

[@chrishatcher5634]

Any updates? Following along

[@alexeverson2015]

you should giveaway all those drags when you’re done - i’ll definitely take some!

[@beachy73]

well done guys turning the tide on all the misinformation . bravo

[@BrunoSetteOficial]

Any test results?

[@zanelucero2234]

This is awesome

[@ThaBiznessReefTank]

You cant get any better than this!

[@PaulGarwood]

That's looks to be a very good experiment, but please what in your opinion is a good way to raise the PH in a Reef tank?

[@sjyavo]

WOW!!! Nice experiment!!!

[@trureef2319]

Thank you Neptune Ecotech and WWC

[@jimjh2671]

I am seriously looking forward to this experiment!!! Awesome Job BRS. and Shoutouts to Neptune, EcoTech and WWCorals! 2 if which I use. WWC doesnt ship to canada so I can use them :) (hope this changes)

[@julesh7353]

Just a note about ocean acidification. If the average pH of the ocean drops to 7.8 from 8.1 by 2100 as predicted, it will still be well above seven, the neutral point where alkalinity becomes acidity. The central concern is that lower pH will make it harder for corals, clams and other “calcifier” creatures to make calcium carbonate skeletons and shells. Yet this concern also may be overstated. Off Papua New Guinea and the Italian island of Ischia, where natural carbon-dioxide bubbles from volcanic vents make the sea less alkaline, and off the Yucatan, where underwater springs make seawater actually acidic, studies have shown that at least some kinds of calcifiers still thrive-at least as far down as pH 7.8. In a recent experiment in the Mediterranean, reported in Nature Climate Change, corals and mollusks were transplanted to lower pH sites, where they proved “able to calcify and grow at even faster than normal rates when exposed to the high [carbon-dioxide] levels projected for the next 300 years.” In any case, freshwater mussels thrive in Scottish rivers, where the pH is as low as five. Source Scripps.

[@ldballoon4]

Awesome experiment, I place my odds on the higher pH for prominent growth :)

[@OnTheReef]

Awesome experiment!

[@EuphoricReptiles]

Cant wait to see the update in 3 months

[@jacklawer6389]

What is the best way to raise PH ? I can't get over 7.8 Thanks

[@smithy3269]

Dam it. You need to sort international shipping out lol. Really though I want to buy stuff 😆

[@paulsimonguy]

I think its about Tax costs the US to much to post here. It stinks

[@davidedmends2681]

If you are using the apex to control the Radions would you be able to upload your profile and tell us what you called it please?

[@myenigma84]

Did we ever get any results from this please?

[@ReefDudes]

Another awesome experiment would be to find it if corals calcify and grow when the lights are on or when they are off at night

[@DanielHJeffery]

Any updates?

[@myreeflife7072]

I’m excited for this one! 👍

[@rutujanturkar8731]

Ahh the first time i was thankful for taking a chemistry class in college

[@Stephanbitterwolf]

Great video. Idk if I missed it but I was expecting results based off of the title.