DIY Tropic Marin All for Reef (One Part Dosing Solution)

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As a follow up, has anyone reported using a baseline amount of the Tropic Marin All for Reef recipe and continuing a 3 part dosing at a lower rate? Process is simple enough and I would be very curious to see if SPS responded to benefits of metabolizing formate/formic acid.
To me no such approach has been reported. We advertise it as one of the advantages of All-For-Reef that only one dosing pump is needed. If you want to add for example additional KH automatically a second one would be needed. (But in my eyes this is not necessary. Small corrections may be done manually.) For your approach 4 dosing pumps and/or storage containers would be needed.

In my eyes the difference and thus the "benefits of metabolizing formate" between Balling method with K+ and A- Elements and All-For-Reef is small.

If more widespread significant differences between other two or three part methods and All-For-Reef may be observed I would suspect they may mainly be attributed to the trace elements in All-For-Reef. The effect of the trace elements is bigger than the difference between Carbo-Calcium compared to Original Balling or All-For-Reef compared to Original Balling with K+ and A- Elements.
 

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