Addition of trace elements may be needed.

[joaovieira]

My 200 g sps tank has 2years old. It is Carbon fueled (zeostart 3) and it is runned with a skimmer bubbleking Sm 250. I have always tried to keep sps without adding trace elements, Just doing wAter changes 1 per 2weeks with tmc pro reef and keeping ca mg and kh stable. Ca 420 mg 1350 kh 6.80. Since 1 week after doing waterchanges the tips of sps usually started burning i have decided to give trace elements a try. Everything changed for the better. I dont need anymore to do wAterchanges due to burn and whitening of sps tips(no it was not growing...).

I would like to hear comments Please. Several posts Say adding trace elements are not crucial, But for my tank i learned they really are.

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[joaovieira]

I would like to know your opinions. Plase share your thoughts. 52 views and no one chime in ?

Thanks

 

[Neptune_Fan]

IME a dkh of 6.8 is rather low. Might want to try to get it upto the 8-12 range.

 

[tmz]

It's hard to comment since the information is vague. What trace elements? How much of a water change ? NO3 and PO4 levels, etc?.Generally, fwiw, I find trace elements unnecessary in my system with regular water changes and feeding taking care of iwaht's needed and like alk in the 9's. No burnt tips. I don't use zeo start , though.

 

[bertoni]

Personally, I doubt that the trace elements did anything, but that's hard to know for sure. I'd keep up the water changes, in any case, to deal with various issues:

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-10/rhf/index.php