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Hey there, I wonder if anybody here really measured with ICP how much trace minerals are consumed by your tanks. Does anybody checked it? I would love to know what else is really used apart of strontium and iron, especially in tanks run without macroalgae (but these with algae would be...

I'm curious to find out what people are using their dosing pumps for! Mainly other than standard 2-part. What other supplements can we automate by incorporating dosing pumps? Diluting products that normally are dosed by drops or caps? Using automatic magnetic stirrers, to suspend solids? Come...

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...

I performed my first ICP test on my 200 liter aquarium which I send attached. I don't understand the high calcium value, but I have already started making water changes to lower the value. Regarding aluminum, I don't know what to do. Some help? On the remaining parameters, apparently I will have...

I was looking through some options for trace elements and noticed Tropic Marin PRO-CORAL K+ includes copper? I was under the impression any amount copper is deadly to inverts like shrimp and coral...

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 /...

I've been wanting to try this stuff for awhile now, since I pulled the skimmer from my Reefer 250 last week and I am relying on the @SantaMonica RAIN2 as my primary filtration I now have room to implement the mud! I grabbed 5lbs from @MarineDepot and dumped into a critter cage, added 2 cups of...

Most hard coral (SPS & LPS) coral keepers im sure are dosing elements back into their aquarium, but how many of us ACTUALLY know what those elements really are? My newest YouTube video tries to explain more ..