Golden rod.. so yeah! lol
I kill that stuff quick dosent like my tank lol
That’s birdnest for me.. lol
Let us know how the A&K works compared to the shine I’m curious!
Will do! I think I'll start May and let it run for a month and compare colors/growth. Def will be able to tell watching alk/cal consumption.
I can tell you how it works, it dont lol Just teasing not sure if its helped or not but when I got back form vacation I had ton of growth and my corals looked amazing. Found out the kid was double dosing one of them and my stuff was way out of whack. I mean they were all pegged in the red on the ICP test. Trying to get it down back to normal now.
good to know! how long have you been dosing A/K? I was just about to order it and I'll put it on a doser. Much easier than trying to add moonshine to dosers which is a major PITA.
Maybe a year.
Not sure where you are getting it from but petco of all places has pretty good deals on tropic marin stuff and you get a discount if you do the auto renew.
Only if you’re using something else with afr like myself I use kalk to do about 60% of the heavy lifting and afr for the rest.. so yeah I’m losing the elements with kalk.. I still don’t dose A&K cause I don’t test haha!
Looking good!
now you have me wondering. I'd be curious if you could use this same method without the water changes and have equal success? curious what KW you're using as I see you're manually adding magnesium? I notice that my BRS KW seems to keep the mag up. I figured this out when I stopped doing KW for a while and all of a sudden I had to start dosing Mag because it tanked. Put the KW back online and it's been stable since.
Yes kalk is just brs kalk, no mag. I'm thinking about switching to one with mag so I don't have to dose any mag . I like to have more magnesium because of the euphyllia in my tank. I dose 100 ml a day of AFR. I have 140 gallons total. There are probably better methods like moonshiners, but im trying to keep it simple based on simple principles that I can maintain for awhile. Carbon dosing helps control algae nutrients feeds coral. Heavy fish stock plus heavy feeding and export helps too. I run carbon to prevent pollution. Heavy lighting with good flow and nutrients equals color and polyp extension. Nutrients too high low polyp extension. Carbon dosing keeps it at manageable level. Water change helps remove things filters can't and adds trace. It's just good overall and is the basis for stability. Kalk supplies my alk and helps ph, AFR is a supplement on top. I'm not trying to ICP test every month and adjust everything manually. My philosophy is do what I want to maintain and the rest will sort itself out. What lives, lives, what dies, dies. I also run CO2 scrubber and UV to help keep fish healthy and reduce algae. I have no problem with algae but I was before carbon dosing.
