I have a 40g breeder that is three years old. It is a softie/LPS tank. My current corals are two acans, one torch coral, one Duncan, three zoa colonies, two rock flower anemones, a sympodium, and two rhodactus (I think) mushrooms. I have six fish: two clownfish, one chromis, one Midas Blenny, one Diamond goby, and one Ruby headed fairy wrasse. I have a 4-bulb ATI fixture. It is currently running 5 1/2 hours/day after treating an algae outbreak (long story), and I am increasing the light schedule 30 minutes/week so I won’t shock the corals. Eventually I’d like to get the lights to about 8 hours daily.
As far as husbandry, I do AWC’s daily for a total of 5g/week, or about 10%. I dose alk and ca daily. My salt mix is Instant Ocean. I test weekly. My last test results were the following: Alk 8dkh, Ca 430ppm, No3 8ppm, Po4 0.02ppm, ph 7.88, temp 78 and salinity 34. I feed the fish and corals mysis shrimp daily and Spectrum pellets a few times a week. I also feed the corals Reef Roids every week or so and Korallen-Zucht LPS food about once/week.
I’ve been reading up on the corals I have and dosing iodine, strontium, and trace elements is recommended for most of them. With my current husbandry and the relatively small amount of corals I have, do you think dosing would be beneficial? I’m very aware that dosing things you can’t test for is tricky. But now that I can do the Triton test, that’s not an issue. My corals look healthy but aren’t growing very quickly.
I appreciate any help! I like do a ton of research before making any changes and I always get great advice from R2R!
As far as husbandry, I do AWC’s daily for a total of 5g/week, or about 10%. I dose alk and ca daily. My salt mix is Instant Ocean. I test weekly. My last test results were the following: Alk 8dkh, Ca 430ppm, No3 8ppm, Po4 0.02ppm, ph 7.88, temp 78 and salinity 34. I feed the fish and corals mysis shrimp daily and Spectrum pellets a few times a week. I also feed the corals Reef Roids every week or so and Korallen-Zucht LPS food about once/week.
I’ve been reading up on the corals I have and dosing iodine, strontium, and trace elements is recommended for most of them. With my current husbandry and the relatively small amount of corals I have, do you think dosing would be beneficial? I’m very aware that dosing things you can’t test for is tricky. But now that I can do the Triton test, that’s not an issue. My corals look healthy but aren’t growing very quickly.
I appreciate any help! I like do a ton of research before making any changes and I always get great advice from R2R!