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Calcion Liquid

Overview:

• Highly-concentrated ionic calcium solution.
• Increases the concentration of calcium in marine aquarium water to provide corals and other reef-building invertebrates with one of the most important elements required for growth.
  
• Is ionic rather than chelated, and contains no unwanted organic material such as EDTA, gluconate, or polygluconate.
  
• Over 50% stronger than most competing products.
  
• Free of phosphate, silicate, and organic material.
  
• Formulated by a marine scientist.

Overview:

• Complex of free-form amino acids in the same ratios found within tissues of stony corals.
  
• Beneficial to all corals (stony and soft), as well as solitary and colonial polyps.
  
• Free-form amino acids:
  1. Provide the building blocks of coral tissue in ideal ratios to encourage the formation of new tissue.
  2. Encourage new tissue growth to repair damage incurred during fragmentation and propagation.
  3. Encourage growth by budding and fission.
  4. Encourage vibrant coloration.
  
• Formulated based upon data compiled by oceanographers researching coral tissue profiles.
  
• Does not require refrigeration.
  
• Formulated by a marine scientist.

• Encourages increased Coloration through Biochrome production in Zooxanthellate corals, clams, & their allies.
  
• Provides numerous elements important to the formation of various biochromes (biological pigments) complex molecules that give coloration to plant & animal cells through their selective color-absorption and reflection characteristics.
  
• Formulated specifically to provide trace quantities of elements for gradual incorporation into, and formation of, biochromes known to occur within Zooxanthellate, such as chlorophylls and c, beta carotene ans xanthophylls.

Brightwell Aquatics LIQUID REEF has twice the calcium relative to carbonates as compared to natural aragonite, making it a very powerful calcium source.

Hobbyists may choose to use LIQUID REEF in conjunction with other methods of calcium, strontium, magnesium, and carbonate supplementation as a means of diversifying their dosing routine.

Overview:

• Complete source of the elements and molecules that are directly used by corals, clams, and other reef-building invertebrates and organisms to create skeletal material and grow.
  
• Provides calcium (140,000 ppm), strontium, magnesium, and potassium in approximately the same ratios* in which they occur in aragonite.
  
• Very strong source of carbonates (derived from aragonite), the other important group of ions involved in aragonite formation.
  
• Increases alkalinity to help stabilize pH.
  
• Stronger than competing products.
  
• May be used as an inexpensive alternative to automated calcium reactor systems with similar results.
  
• Free of phosphate, silicate, and organic material.
  
• Formulated by a marine scientist.

Magnesium plays a vital role in reef aquaria: it helps maintain calcium and carbonate (composing the majority of measurable alkalinity) concentrations by limiting unwanted inorganic precipitation with each other.

• Highly-concentrated ionic magnesium solution.
  
• Stronger than most competing products.
  
• Contains no unwanted organic material such as EDTA, gluconate, or polygluconate.
  
• Formulated by a marine scientist.
  
• Provides magnesium, which helps regulate the balance between calcium and carbonates in aquarium water, and is a component of aragonite, the mineral secreted by reef-building organisms such as corals, clams, and their allies to form skeletal material.

Coral Dip for New Coral Additions. Experienced hobbyists are well aware of the delicate nature of the soft tissue that constitutes the living coral polyp, particularly in the case of stony corals. Inspection of a bare stony coral skeleton often reveals a very convoluted and sharp structure; when coral tissue is inadvertently pressed against such a structure, the resulting local tissue damage can create an entry way for infection and/or infestation by organisms that would otherwise be combated by the coral’s immune system. Physical damage to coral tissue is not an uncommon event during shipping and/or handling, and is an unavoidable result of fragmenting when the cutting site is not bare skeleton (again, in the case of a stony coral; cutting soft corals and polyps will always result in tissue damage). A colony or individual may also experience stress as a matter of changing chemical or physical conditions in the aquarium, often leading to weakening of the immune system, with the afore-mentioned infection/infestation as a possible result.

• Safe for all varieties of corals and their allies, including colonial and solitary polyps.
  
• Triple-acting formulation provides short- and long-term benefits to dipped corals.
  
• Formulated to prepare corals for addition to a pre-existing aquarium, as well as to benefit corals showing signs of tissue damage or degradation.
  
• Gently oxidizes areas of damaged coral tissue to help halt, or prevent onset of, tissue degradation.
  
• Discourages pathogens from establishing themselves in areas of damaged tissue.
  
• Not a medication; contains no antibiotics or heavy metals.
  
• Over 50% stronger than competing products.
  
• Formulated by a marine scientist.

• Helps maintain a balanced nutrient-limited marine aquarium by enabling the hobbyist to enhance the rate of microbial growth and reproduction, increading the rate of phosphate-reduction and denitrification; this is part of a particular benefit in heavily-stocked, well-fed reef aquaria.
• Replaces "vodka method" of microbial activity-enhancement with a completely safe and biologically-sound, non-flammable alternative to using vodka or ethanol.
• Indirectly benefits corals and other suspension-feeding invertebrates by encouraging reproduction of bacerioplankton (an important food source for suspension-feeding invertebrates).
• Encourages polyp-expansion in all corals.
• May be used to help expedite biological filtration in new set-ups.
• Formulated by a marine scientist.

This method of calcium and carbonate supplementation is advantageous to hobbyists interested in a simple and effective means of providing the very elements and molecules required for growth of reef-building organisms such as corals, clams, and their allies. Corals and other reef-building organisms require adequate and stable available calcium and alkalinity if they are to thrive, regardless of how perfect the remainder of their environment is.

For maximum effectiveness of the REEF CŌDE method, the magnesium concentration in reef aquaria should be adjusted to, and maintained between, 1,290 - 1,320 ppm before using these products (alone or together) or any other calcium and alkalinity products. Doing so helps prevent unwanted precipitation between calcium and carbonate ions. Additional information on this subject is available AT www.brightwellaquatics.com and on the label for Brightwell Aquatics MAGNESION.

• The calcium-bearing component of a two-part method for dosing calcium and carbonates (the substances largely responsible for increasing alkalinity (”buffering capacity”)) in the same ratio as that found in natural seawater.
  
• Ionically-balanced with respect to natural seawater concentrations of calcium and carbonates when used in equal amounts with REEF CŌDE B.
  
• Benefits reef-building organisms such as corals, clams, calcareous algae, etc.
  
• Simplifies calcium and alkalinity maintenance.
  
• Stronger than most competing products.
  
• Contains no phosphate, silicate, or organic material.
  
• Formulated by a marine scientist.

This method of calcium and carbonate supplementation is advantageous to hobbyists interested in a simple and effective solution to providing the very elements and molecules required for growth of reef-building organisms such as corals, clams, and their allies.

• The carbonate-bearing component of a two-part method for dosing calcium and carbonates (the substances largely responsible for increasing alkalinity (”buffering capacity”) in the same ratio as that found in natural seawater.
  
• Ionically-balanced with respect to natural seawater concentrations of calcium and carbonates when used in equal amounts with REEF CŌDE A.
  
• Benefits reef-building organisms such as corals, clams, calcareous algae, etc.
  
• Simplifies calcium and alkalinity maintenance.
  
• Stronger than most competing products.
  
• Contains no phosphate, silicate, or organic material.
  
• Formulated by a marine scientist.

Reef Snow delivers organic & in-organic nutrients to corals & their allies, clams, tube worms, and other suspension-feeding marine invertebrates.

It may be of particular benefit to the hobbiest wishing to maintain azooxanthellate soft corals in deep-water aquaria. The collective benefits of provising these nutients in the same "package" are increased growth rates of both soft tissue and skeletal material.

Brightwell Aquatics RESTŌR is a complex of amino acids and fatty acids derived from marine fishes and crustaceans; it is a strong source of EPA, DHA, and other omega-3 fatty acids, as well as naturally-occurring pigments.

RESTŌR was specifically formulated for the care of corals and their allies that: have been recently placed into a new aquarium and are adjusting to new lighting; have recently been exposed to prolonged elevated temperatures (inducing expulsion of symbiotic zooxanthellae, known as “bleaching”); have suffered tissue damage either through fragmenting or propagation, or through the unwanted grazing activities of aquarium inhabitants.

• Encourages health, growth, reproduction, and vibrant coloration.
  
• Provides important nutrients to corals and their allies during periods of stress induced by changes in lighting and/or prolonged exposure to excessive water temperature (often resulting in “bleaching”).
  
• Aids in tissue repair after corals have undergone fragmenting and captive propagation.
  
• Does not require refrigeration.
  
• Formulated by a marine scientist.