trace elements

I'm currently doosing Tropic Marin's Original Balling Method for about the past year. I manually dose their trace elements, but have a single Bubble Magus Doser sitting around. Would it be safe to mix the two (A- & K+) together and dose these through a single doser??

I was watching this video with @Lou Ekus; he says he personally doesn't like seeing people running GFO 24/7. What are the observed (rather than theoretical) drawbacks with the long term use of GFO? Obviously, a sudden drop in PO4 will cause issues, but this is not what we're talking about. What...

Hi everyone, hope you and your reefs are all doing well. I just wanted to discuss something quick. I’ve read a lot of forums about how doing a 10% water change weekly/bi weekly or a 20% water change monthly is enough to replenish the elements for a softie only tank since they don’t consume a...

I´ve been questioning myself a lot lately: do we really need to replenish all those traces? Do we really need to keep our water as close as we can to sea water? Long ago there were lots of thriving tanks while nobody even knew or talked about trace elements, many were R2R amazing featured...

Hi all, I have enclosed my ICP results and am interested in peoples opinions, and what difference if any dosing the low micro elements would have. Also I note my salifert reading for Mg was way off and there are no readings for Lanthanum or Iron yet I add these for phosphate control. Thanks

Hi all, I got ICP results back from Tropic Marin, some interesting results. Firstly Mg is measuring 1540, I am measuring 1350 on salifert, alarming difference. I will try a different test kit on this. The other major elements were close to my own measurements. I did an aquaforest icp about 2...

So I am thinking to switching to esv ionic b two part to simplify my dosing. However, I currently dose chaetogro as my macroalgae would die without it (as it has before since I do no water changes and quickly depleted the relevant trace elements even when dosing red sea iron and such. Has anyone...

D contains Silver, Gold, Vandium and Tungsten, which red sea says is used in the production of blue/purple chromoproteins (pociliporin , diadinoxanthin and dinoxanthin). I am curious as to whether anyone else thinks that this bottle is completely unnecessary. Their Trace color C has Iron and...

I am doing training to learn about peritoneal dialysis, which uses diffusion across a membrane to remove waste products from people with kidney failure. Has anyone heard of using a membrane and freshly mixed saltwater to remove nitrogen/replenish trace elements this way?

Hi everyone hope you’re doing well. So today I tested my water for the first time and here are my numbers Calcium: 350 Alkalinity: 7 Ph: 7.8 I have brightwell aquatics calcium, alkalinity and ph ready to be used. I’ve been doing some research on dosing but it’s hard to wrap your head around...

I currently have a 60g, 29g and 10 gallon mixed reefs set up and I’ve never dosed anything to the corals. Any opinions on if or what I should dose? I feed them reef rounds twice a week and dose alk and calcium. Thanks.

Curious if you like to dose trace elements. If so, what brand do you like and what benefits do you feel its brought to your system?

Since R2R has been such an amazing source of knowledge for me through out my years in the hobby I want to share this idea with you all. It was originally posted under the chemistry forum for discussion but this has now become quite the DIY project and I think this is a more appropriate place for...

Example: Barium Supplement BaCl2 (2H2O) 1. I find molecular weight (244 gram per mole), do this by adding molecular weight of each element (multiply as needed) 2. now take the weight of the primary trace element and divide by the sum of the molecular weight to find percentage weight ( 137 /...

Hi Reef2Reef community, its a very common question what quantity of trace elements (and phosphorus) is added to reef tanks by feeding. We investigated this issue by dissolving several common fish foods in concentrated nitric acid followed by dilution and ICP-OES analysis, and id like to share...

I have had a few issues with my 3 year old reef. I'd say 90% of the coral are fine but I've seen some RTN of random coral starting this summer. I initially thought it could be low Nitrate levels, but I'm not convinced that's all so I ordered a ICP test. I'm using Kent salt and have since the...

I have set up an IM Nuvo Mini 40 in my office (see below) and it has been running for about 8 weeks now. It will eventually be an SPS dominant tank so I have been looking at various methods of nutrient control/supplementation. I love the idea of the Triton method and have been looking at the...

What's your thoughts on keeping SPS without doing WC religiously (say once every 3 months) and keeping the trace elements (Basic 3: Mg, Alk & Ca) via dosing and No3 export via heavy skim (carbon dose)? Has someone done this in the past for whatever reason it maybe (perhaps lack of time)? The...

What do people prefer more for trace element supplement with better results?the esv b-ionic 2 part or the Red Sea coral coral ABCD?