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Thank you sir. In this hobby you might call it luck!
I started dosing strontium chloride at 1 ppm/day and after ten days (testing every day) had my first reading at 1 ppm. some people in Europe I consulted, said that a 'buffer' needed to be built up first as all my available Sr had been used up. Finally after 20 days my Sr level stabilised at 10 ppm and has remained at this level with daily dosing of 0.05 ppm/day.
Hi reefwiser
I was sceptical at first on switching to DSR, but the health of my reef inhabitants has not suffered, quite the opposite has occurred!
I am getting good results and could not be happier, GlennF does a great job at mentoring.
Keeping the individual elements at NSW levels or slightly elevated has made a world of difference to my reef.
Cheers,
Tony
Aside from measuring more things, what functionally have you done differently to the tank under the DSR method?
Great post, I love the fact that only one thing was changed.
DSR and triton have challenged me to test all that I can. For me also, Strontium was basically 0 on the SF test despite automatic continuous water changes. I found myself doubting the test results for a while but finally decided to try getting to a higher level. I am working it back up slowly, also using the SF test. Oops timer went off, time for the last titration!
I'll be interested to see if you notice any difference as I don't presently beleive strontium is a useful additive for most reef tanks.
@Squamosa, although this looks like an old thread, not sure if you will see it, but I have a question. You mention raising nutrients, carbon dosing, and adding iron, boron and iodine. How did you tease apart the effects of dosing those other things from the strontium, IE what kind of period between these changes and the strontium dosing did you have? As a scientist I guess you are well aware of the issues with these kinds of observations and I am not calling your conclusions into question, but wondering so I can get an opinion of how certain the link is.
Thanks, Pete
Nice acros there! I want some of them
Thanks re the strontium, if you got changes within days and nothing else was being adjusted that pretty much answers the question for me. I would like to see more details and was wondering if you made any threads about your change from your old method (was it zeovit you said? Cant remember) to Glenns DSR method?
It could be great to see the before/after effects with pictures if you have it :tongue: