Element levels when using Chaetogro?

[Koty]

I use the TM Balling system and I supplement with their A & K elements mixed in the Alkalinity and Calcium dosing containers , respectively. I dose only 3.2 ml per day per my 110g tank. Since starting this my Cheato started to grow significantly faster. This is a smaller amount than the official recommendation and yet my tank is loaded with soft/LPS/SPS corals (mostly growing) and fish and there seem to be enough trace elements to even support annoying hair algae growth.

 

[Rjramos]

Thank you Randy and everyone contributing. Chiming in cause lately the chaeto I used to grow so well, is not doing the same.

 

[Michael.Brock]

I’m thinking of developing some mixed diy trace/minor/major element recipes for different purposes using readily available chemicals.

One I have in mind is for growing macroalgae and turf algae. Let’s call this recipe R1. Lol

I was thinking to base it off of published analyses of macroalgae and/or turf algae. R1 won’t include N and P, but a related recipe will be an N and P supplement to use at a fixed ratio to R1 to provide much of what such algae need from seawater. A macroalgae grow out tank might use both, while a refugium or ats might only use R1 or R1 plus one of the N and P, depending on tank values of N and P.

In any case, in preparation for such an endeavor, I’m looking to see if anyone has icp data on tank values when using commercial chaetogro by Brightwell as the primary trace element additive, and who grows a significant amount of macroalgae, or turf algae.

Reason being, If there’s a general trend toward chaetogro having excessive or deficient levels of its listed components, I could also take that into account. I know it will be impossible in any single case to distinguish use by a refugium or ats vs everything else in the display, so I’m looking for general trends.

Thanks in advance for any input.

@Randy Holmes-Farley Did you ultimately develop your diy recipes for macroalgae? I'm just started working out a dosing routine for my macroalgae (the tank consumes a lot of nitrate) and I have gotten as far as "chaetogro" and Sodium Nitrate.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

@Randy Holmes-Farley Did you ultimately develop your diy recipes for macroalgae? I'm just started working out a dosing routine for my macroalgae (the tank consumes a lot of nitrate) and I have gotten as far as "chaetogro" and Sodium Nitrate.

No, I have not. I’m using just AFR and ammonium bicarbonate. I have not recently experimented with adding more.