What are you dosing? Sps keepers.

[Reginald Reefer III]

My tank is only ~7 months old at this point, but the SPS are growing fast now. No water change and run the Moonshiners method. ~100g total volume.

Live Phyto - ~75mL every night
BRS Soda Ash (Alk) - ~65mL/day to keep it at 8.5 dkH
BRS Calcium Carbonate (Cal) ~65 mL/day to keep it at 450 ppm
BRS Magnesium (Mag) ~5 mL every 2 weeks or so, Mag has been holding steady at 1530
Acropower - ~20mL/week dosed at once
Moonshiners Iodine - 9 drops
Moonshiners Manganese 1.5 mL/day
Moonshiners Chromium - 0.2 mL/day
Moonshiners Cobalt - 0.2 mL/day
Moonshiners Iron - 0.1 mL/day
Moonshiners Vanadium - 2 drops
Moonshiners Selenium - 0.2 mL/day

Last ICP test required this as a correction
Nickel - 1.24 mL 2/2 Day
Zinc - 0.4 mL 2/2 Day
Strontium - 5.33 mL 1/1 Day
Flouride - 34.16 mL 6/6 Day


Greg's Unicorn that is really coloring up and encrusting

Up to ~120mL of Alk/Cal per day and now dosing 45mL of ammonium chloride and ~3mL of NeoPhos Pro daily. RMS elements consumption is also through the roof with Fluoride, Potassium and Molybdenum being the largest. I have had to move those to a daily dose as they bottomed out after a month with the corrections. This is the same Greg's Unicorn 6 months later.

 

[X-37B]

Since my last post I took my no3 sulfer reactor offline.
No3 11
Po4 .1
I was getting low ph at night 7.5-7.6.
No3 effluent ph was 6.8 and carx effluent wis 6.5.
Daytime ph was 8.1.

I setup a Kamoer pump with Kalk.
I am running 2mlm. Around 2.8 liters a day.
Carx was turned down 50%.
Ph now has improved.
7.9-8.2.
Within a few days corals showed new growth.

I think the 2 acidic effluents were to much for the system of 150g's.

The corals looked good before the change and look even better now.
All coral appear to like the boost in ph.

 

[backbayreef]

I run a CaRx on all my tanks, except the little 25gal mushroom/anemone tank. For the CaRx tanks, I'm currently dosing kalk using a Kamoer + kalk stirrer - pH is great and super low maintenance! I've dosed Brightwell Replenish for 3 months and honestly didn't see any difference; perhaps will try TM A&K next time?

Nutrient exports
Nitrate: sulfur denitrator (shutting down since NO3 is now below 10ppm). Will likely switch back to DIY carbon dosing since it's manageable.
Phosphate: Brightwell Phosphat-E (LC-based)

I feed heavy with pellets, flakes, nori, frozen, and Dragon's Breath macro! Don't need to dose amino acid or anything else.

 

[backbayreef]

Since my last post I took my no3 sulfer reactor offline.
No3 11
Po4 .1
I was getting low ph at night 7.5-7.6.
No3 effluent ph was 6.8 and carx effluent wis 6.5.
Daytime ph was 8.1.

I setup a Kamoer pump with Kalk.
I am running 2mlm. Around 2.8 liters a day.
Carx was turned down 50%.
Ph now has improved.
7.9-8.2.
Within a few days corals showed new growth.

I think the 2 acidic effluents were to much for the system of 150g's.

The corals looked good before the change and look even better now.
All coral appear to like the boost in ph.

Looks like you and I are in a similar boat wrt nitrate control! I literally shut off my sulfur denitrator last night, after been running full blast (no reduction) for the last 2 months.

The Avast K2 kalk stirrer is awesome, too. I love dosing kalk now...with the dip in pH, I’ll need to add more kalk. I’m too lazy to install a pH probe inside the reactor. Actually, I’m out of ports!

 

[jimmypencil]

On my SPS tank currently 30ml AFR daily because it's easy. I also have ammonim bicarb on a doser but once it brought my NO3 up to 9 from 0 I stopped daily dosing and just pump 10ml in once and while. I have to dose PO4 once in a while also to keep it off 0. I manually dose that. I try to keep things as simple as possible. I do 2g WCs once a week so I can vacuum detritus that collects in one corner.

No way 30 ml of all for reef covered all the alk consumption of this tank right?

 

[exnisstech]

No way 30 ml of all for reef covered all the alk consumption of this tank right?

Back then it did. I was at 65ml a day later but recently moved out of that tank.
This is shortly before the move and 65ml was keeping up. I target alk 8-8.5 dkH

 

[docscorals]

With so many options out there today what are you dosing and why? It seems there’s more and more people successful today with sps tanks then 10 years ago! My tank is simple just top off with kalk and dose all for reef.. I also dose ammonia now to help keep nitrates up and a couple drops lugols every other day or so just cause I always see icp tests come back with low iodine for others.. I’m not into dosing tons of things and could care less what a icp test tells me about my tank as my corals grow and color just fine… I was dosing tons of bacteria and carbon dosing but my doser broke and I didn’t really notice a difference so I quit! I do add zeobak to diy coral snow after every water change which is normally 2-3 weeks but that’s about it! I know there’s lot of moonshiners out there with a lab but what else are people seeing positive results with?!?

TM Bacto Balance (or ElimiNP if my nutrients get too high)
TM Reef Actif
Moonshiners based on ICP
Acropower
Restor
Currently using BRS two part, but switching to Kalk.

 

[Borat]

All thse unnecessary additives are for little girls only

 

[X-37B]

All thse unnecessary additives are for little girls only

Now thats funny!
I dose kalk with a carx on my main system.
2 part, esv, on 3 other systems.
New frag system is kalk only.
One 10g system is A4R.
I like to keep it simple.