For $14: More Water Clarity! No Cyano, Vermetid Snail? Lower Nutrients? Testing out DIY Coral Snow.

The concept of Coral Snow has been floating around for awhile and still being used by some of the OGs in the hobby. Dosing a mixture of Calcium Carbonate + RODI water in order to create a flocculant that binds smaller particles together into larger ones so they could be removed by mechanical filtration. I tested this out for 6 weeks, so far water clarity has certainly improved, cyano did go away, and I did have a pretty drastic nutrients drop (not sure if related). Here is the story...
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Product used in this video:
Calcium Carbonate 500g (Amazon Link): https://amzn.to/48dRl3D
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Special thanks to Sunny (@ReefSite) for sharing this awesome recipe, please visit his YT / IG page for more information and reefing knowledge!
DIY Coral Snow recipe per Sunny: 1 teaspoon of Calcium Carbonate per 50g of system volume and mix it with 8 oz of RODI water. Allow to sit for 5 mins before dosing. (please refer to videos for dosing details) This is the basic mixture for water clarity, he has other suggestions for other purposes in his videos.
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Chapters:
0:00 What is Coral Snow?
0:39 Who is Sunny @reefsidefishing@ReefSite?
1:44 The Calcium Carbonate that I use
3:15 But first, let's take a look at the corals...
4:36 Mixing & Dosing DIY Coral Snow
8:29 6 Weeks check-in!
10:00 Recap of my DIY Coral Snow mixing & dosing process
13:44 Final Thoughts
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