Dsekula
Member
Hi guys,
I wanted to run an interesting find by you all.
When I started my salt adventure I already had a decent understanding on chemical dosing (I run water and wastewater plants daily) so this was something I felt comfortable with.
My intent was a mostly lps tank with some soft coral an anemone and clam I have some Monti caps and soft coral as well. I started tracking the tanks daily calcium and magnesium up take along with alk and pH.. not yet dosing anything . After about a month (once tank was pretty well stocked not from start) of just doing water changes to catch up usage I felt like I had a good data set to start from. I started using a very small amount of the red Sea skeletal abc+ blend and also tracking iron, stronioum, potassium, and iodine since their in this mix. I had some nice results but found that using this blend my magnesium slowly came out of proportion to calcium, nothing drastic since I was keeping a very close eye and hand dosing but enough that if I wasn't watching I would have an issue eventually. I switched to dosing calcium and magnesium independently with BRS brand supplements. I continued watching all my trace elements mentioned above and bought a brightwell set of individual supplements so I could hand dose these in very sparring amounts. I changed brands simply because this was what the lfs stocked and they all seemed like reputable companys worth a chance.
To date I haven't had any issues but noticed something interesting.
When I added the redsea abc+ mix my corals and anemones (espically the anemones) show much more vibrant greens and some blue iridescent like colors. Lately I tried adding a half gram (120 gal system) with water changes and this causes the same result. I tried the red Sea part D for blue purple colors in one water change proportion to calcium but that didn't seem to make any change. I don't like this method anyway since is proportionate and can't be tested. Otherwise I've been using rea sea charts for targets and fine tuning based on lifestock reaction. I haven't noticed any fluctuations when the more vibrant colors are present and tank seems otherwise healthy reguardless. Anyone know what is in this mix that is causing the more vibrant colors or have suggestions?
Tia,
D
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I wanted to run an interesting find by you all.
When I started my salt adventure I already had a decent understanding on chemical dosing (I run water and wastewater plants daily) so this was something I felt comfortable with.
My intent was a mostly lps tank with some soft coral an anemone and clam I have some Monti caps and soft coral as well. I started tracking the tanks daily calcium and magnesium up take along with alk and pH.. not yet dosing anything . After about a month (once tank was pretty well stocked not from start) of just doing water changes to catch up usage I felt like I had a good data set to start from. I started using a very small amount of the red Sea skeletal abc+ blend and also tracking iron, stronioum, potassium, and iodine since their in this mix. I had some nice results but found that using this blend my magnesium slowly came out of proportion to calcium, nothing drastic since I was keeping a very close eye and hand dosing but enough that if I wasn't watching I would have an issue eventually. I switched to dosing calcium and magnesium independently with BRS brand supplements. I continued watching all my trace elements mentioned above and bought a brightwell set of individual supplements so I could hand dose these in very sparring amounts. I changed brands simply because this was what the lfs stocked and they all seemed like reputable companys worth a chance.
To date I haven't had any issues but noticed something interesting.
When I added the redsea abc+ mix my corals and anemones (espically the anemones) show much more vibrant greens and some blue iridescent like colors. Lately I tried adding a half gram (120 gal system) with water changes and this causes the same result. I tried the red Sea part D for blue purple colors in one water change proportion to calcium but that didn't seem to make any change. I don't like this method anyway since is proportionate and can't be tested. Otherwise I've been using rea sea charts for targets and fine tuning based on lifestock reaction. I haven't noticed any fluctuations when the more vibrant colors are present and tank seems otherwise healthy reguardless. Anyone know what is in this mix that is causing the more vibrant colors or have suggestions?
Tia,
D
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