Does anyone know or know of a good source for dosing timing info for trace elements? Not Alk and Calc. Things like iodine, potassium, strontium, iron, etc.? Mostly for softy/LPS tanks (but maybe SPS eventually). I'm sure daily is ideal, but I'm wondering how daily compares to weekly, as weekly would be much more doable without a dosing pump.
Dosing Trace Elements - Timing?
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I've started the Reef Moonshiner's method a few months ago. He has a free handbook online that you can read. Their method has several elements dosed daily and others dosed weekly or monthly per ICP results. I've had absolutely fantastic results since starting.
I dose by hand daily in both systems.
Thanks, I'll check out that method.
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weekly is fine, I'd think.
K and Sr aren't trace elements that get depleted to zero. They are consistently present, anything more than a weekly (maybe monthly) adjustment is needless.
I, Fe etc : These things get taken up by organisms and held internally. Organisms won't be noticeably negatively impacted if the water has no Fe (etc) in it for a few days. I can't think of any trace element that daily dosing would be noticeably better than weekly.
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K and Sr aren't trace elements that get depleted to zero. They are consistently present, anything more than a weekly (maybe monthly) adjustment is needless.
I, Fe etc : These things get taken up by organisms and held internally. Organisms won't be noticeably negatively impacted if the water has no Fe (etc) in it for a few days. I can't think of any trace element that daily dosing would be noticeably better than weekly.
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Thanks for the reply! I may do the experiment and see what happens. I probably should have mentioned that I carbon dose, so I don't do WCs. I suppose I need to switch to weekly, then send in an ICP test 1 day after the weekly dose and another one right before the weekly dose to see the high and low of each element, and adjust my weekly amounts from there.
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