Aqua Apothecary: Do you dose these elements into your reef aquarium?

[Superlightman]

Aqua Apothecary: Do you dose these elements into your reef aquarium?

Randy Holmes-Farley, chemist and R2R expert contributor, recently posted a couple of articles on dosing trace elements and what elements to dose and what not to dose. While many reef keepers dose some elements into their reef tank, they may not necessarily dose all the necessary elements. The following is a list of recommended elements to dose if the levels are sufficiently low: carbon, nitrogen, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, manganese, and iron. Do you dose these elements into your reef? Please let us know about your experience with dosing elements into your reef and feel free to share any tips or recommendation in the related discussion!

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why is iodine mentioned ?

 

[Superlightman]

Just 5ml of all for reef a day and thats it.

5ml you have a pico tank that is near nothing?

 

[Superlightman]

I use all AFR which keeps alk rock solid but does not give enough magnesium, iodine or manganese so have to dose those seperatley as well as sodium carbonate in my ATO so as to use less AFR which tends to run the calcium up high. Magnesium tends to get used up quite a bit in my system. If i dont test for a few weeks it will drop below 1200 and i can see my euphelia looking rough. Its not testing either as i use salifert compared with regular icp testing and shows the same.

1200 -1250 is fine not need more, that is sea level, calcium run only high if you have your kh over 7.5 with it or not sps

 

[Floyd-]

5ml you have a pico tank that is near nothing?

Its a 25g lagoon. Ive had to bump it up to 7ml now to keep up with the corals growing. The wonders of a small tank are less of everything but the same experience. Before this tank I had nearly a 200g tank.