Dear all,
My current dosing scheme is:
- all for reef for all dosing
- combination of chaeto refugium + carbond dosing (nopox) for nutrient control
Observations from my last ICP
- PH is on the lower side: 8.1 on the ICP, but it drops to 7.9 at night.
- large part of the trace elements still low / not detectable.
- nitrates and phosphate in an OK range but nitrates are relatively high compared to phosphates.
My guess is that the refugium and my corals are competing got trace elements?
If possible i would like to stay away from element specific dosing methods like moonshiners.
My thought was the following:
- replace all for reef with kalkwasser to boost PH
- add a separate magnesium + trace element dosing
- stop refugium to avoid trace element competition.
- run kalk primarily counter light cycle to stable PH.
My tank is relatively low stocked so im not too concerned about kalkwasser limit just yet.
Any advice on a good single trace element solution?
Thanks for the advice. Added my last ICP report and photo of my tank for coral stocking reference.
My current dosing scheme is:
- all for reef for all dosing
- combination of chaeto refugium + carbond dosing (nopox) for nutrient control
Observations from my last ICP
- PH is on the lower side: 8.1 on the ICP, but it drops to 7.9 at night.
- large part of the trace elements still low / not detectable.
- nitrates and phosphate in an OK range but nitrates are relatively high compared to phosphates.
My guess is that the refugium and my corals are competing got trace elements?
If possible i would like to stay away from element specific dosing methods like moonshiners.
My thought was the following:
- replace all for reef with kalkwasser to boost PH
- add a separate magnesium + trace element dosing
- stop refugium to avoid trace element competition.
- run kalk primarily counter light cycle to stable PH.
My tank is relatively low stocked so im not too concerned about kalkwasser limit just yet.
Any advice on a good single trace element solution?
Thanks for the advice. Added my last ICP report and photo of my tank for coral stocking reference.