Very interested in your results.
I have been reading a few articles about this method.

 

Quick up date done my first day on the triton need to reduce dose amount kh at 9 atm will put some pics up when I get home 2night all corals looking good so far lol

 

I am sure this will take some time to really see the effects.
Early pics would be great so we have something to compare to in a few months.

 

I am sure this will take some time to really see the effects.
Early pics would be great so we have something to compare to in a few months.

 

The triton is from the owners of unique corals I believe or he atleast gas something to do with it. I think they are one of the best coral shippers ever do I would think they use it so it's gotta be good.

 

Ya, Scott Felman I think is his name. He has some great threads on...well, you know where if you know.

Anyways, I think he is bringing the Triton method here to the US from Germany (trying).
I like the the first impressions from it.

I looked up the basic method of it.
Purchase a kit with Test vials ( 3 for $49...6 for $85 i think and so on)
You send off ( postage paid ) your water sample, you get results back of all elements that should be in your DT water and what needs added and or lowered.

You dose 3 items daily, no water changes ( my understanding) and dose fine elements according to there recommendations from the water you send off for random testing.

 

I dream of no water changes. Actually I dream that Alex Trebek is doing my water changes.

Looking forward to following.

 

It is Movember and I am growing the stash.....Bad Boy Trebec...
Water Changes for Free...:rimshot:

Sorry to OP....I sometimes take things off track..my bad

GO TRITON

 

looks like a joke to me... you are paying $49 (per test) to have someone test your water... while yes that is great that they can test it more accurately than most in the hobby can, Scott comes right out and says it's going to take several tests to get you where you want to be, then you're looking at monthly tests to keep you going... that's a lot of money! I'd suggest you attempt the Rininger method instead, send me all your money and then dose what you'd dose regardless, and I'll use your money to make my tank look beautiful to show off the excellent results of the Rininger method. For more info PM me for where to send the money.

 

Not sure I understand this. So this method removes the need to do water changes? What happens to the junk in the tank? Is the method just dosing chemicals or is there actually a physical piece of hardware that is required as well?

 

The reason we do water changes is because our filtration is not up to the job and water changes are not affective if u only do 10% your only putting 10% of the trace eliments back unless your salt has 10 times more trace eliments than sea water it's just pointless get a bigger skimmer grow Marco algae and dose triton

Theses are the words from triton at macna

 

The method is growing macro algae wet skimming and dosing triton

 

Additional Info if anyone is interested
http://www.triton.de/home/?L=1

http://uniquecorals.com/triton.html

It will not be for everyone, that is for sure.

What an aquarist will spend on his tank is up to that person, not sure if it is fair to call it a "joke " but to each his own.

 

Update everyone cut my dose level down 5 ml yesterday kh was at 8.7 need to be at 8.00 good news thow my daily pH swing is under control before I started dosing triton at the lowest end at night would be 7.65 and at high on the day would be 8.30 now 5 days into dosing ph low is 8.05 and high is 8.30 and corals are all looking good going to go on the computer 2night and upload some pics from Saturday and from 2day to se if anythings changed my sebae anemone is about 14 inch across and all the corals are looking good

 

Have you always monitored/tested this often?

 

I'd normally test kh once a week to adjust my kalk in my top up and phosphate once a month ph salinity temp monitored by my apex and it got a seneye reef on the tank from when I had t5s to tell when I needed to change bulbs but now I have the radions I don't really check that to often

 

This is the first full week on triton the algae problem is had for the past month due to biopellet reactor clogging up has started to clear and the algae in the sump has grown like mad

 

update everyone cant quite get my head around why my kh is going up its currently at 10 i have reduced my dose by 20ml but it keeps going up kinda confused might have to email triton se what thay have to say

 

I would like to just send in samples just to be tested. They have been finding a few metals high in some tanks. They test for alot of things that they probably don't even make a kit for. It also can show you how far your kits are off

 

I'm going to be sending 2 water samples for both test next week so should no what's going on as for test kits I only use the redsea pro kits sand I use redsea coral pro salt just before I started triton I done a 50% water change with 0 tds rodi water from my new 5 stage ro unit i put 3 kh of carbon in my filter sock run that for a couple of days so there shouldn't really be anything up with the water but you never no I emailed triton last night to see what they think just waiting for a reply atm

 

Kg not kh auto correct lol

 

Spoke to triton and thay sed to stop doing imidiatly wait for the kh to drop to 8 then start dosing 20-30 ml and work my way up so i stopped dosing 2 day ago now going to test my kh tonight se where I stand.

As for there recommend dose level that's something anyone starting triton should not do recommend starting low and build it up like you would do with anything you dose don't just do what it says on the bottle.

 

Just done a kh test and it's at 9 so it's dropping 0.5 a day so 2 days time I should be able to start dosing again fingers crossed everything in the tank is looking good thow despite overdosing got full polyp extention and my Duncans have grown more heads

 

Glad you have that figured out.
I plan on ordering a 3 or 6 test kit when I get back from Thanksgiving trip.
Interested in test results.
We may have a couple threads going on the Triton Method

 

When are you planning on getting the test done because triton is not going to be testing anything from the 19th of December to the 19th of January

And yes looks like we might

 

Me too everything in the tank is looking great thow

When was you planning on testing because tritons not testing anything from the 19th of December to the 19th of January

And yes looks like we might have from the looks of it on this forum not many people have uses it at my local reef club there's quite a few people using it

 

Update everyone everythings looking grate in the tank my algae in my refuge is growing like mad removing about half a bucket a week kh is stable at 8.5 and I made a little but quite exciting discovery today