Manganese

[cba191]

Does AFR provide enough manganese when dosed every other day?

 

[VintageReefer]

Does AFR provide enough manganese when dosed every other day?

This will vary from each individuals system and would need icp to measure the levels. And manganese is consumed rapidly, so you would need an icp sample taken shortly after dosing, or regular samples and icp tests to see if you are bottoming out

For reference I use moonshiners manganese, and I have a 75g tank that’s packed with LPS, and 25 gonis, and I’m only dosing .9ml daily

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Does AFR provide enough manganese when dosed every other day?

Enough is an opinion rather than established fact as to what it means, but certainly it provides very little when not much is dosed and it provides more when a lot is dosed.

Since I have a great deal of demand for iron and manganese driven by growing lots of macroalgae, and that growth does not get reflected in the demand for alk and calcium that determines how much AFR I dose, I dose extra ferrous gluconate and manganese gluconate.