Kent Essential Elements

[Myka]

So I was digging through all my aquarium bottles, and came across an old bottle of Kent Essential Elements which I used to use combined with Miracle Gro to grow phytoplankton. I look at the label and see this:

Calcium Chloride, Cobalt Chloride, Iron EDTA, Lithium Chloride, Magnesium Chloride, Manganese EDTA, Nickel Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Potassium Iodide, Sodium Molybdate, Strontium Chloride, Zinc EDTA, Copper EDTA, and Potassium Bromide.

This interests me because almost all of the ingredients in this products tested as "undetectable" on the last Triton test of my tank.

Has anyone used this product before? I'm considering giving it a try, and dose on the light side. Anything "Kent" has me a bit leery. :bigeyes:

 

[jd371]

I'm doing bi-weekly wc's now, so I dose on the weekend when there is no wc.

 

[Piper27]

What's wrong with kent prouducts? I would certainly give it a shot if I wasn't doing regular water changes but I always have so I rarely dose it. I use it on weeks I skip a water change though. Not sure if any visable results would be seen from weekly dosing unless water changes haven't been done for a good bit.

 

[Myka]

I'm doing bi-weekly wc's now, so I dose on the weekend when there is no wc.

What's wrong with kent prouducts? I would certainly give it a shot if I wasn't doing regular water changes but I always have so I rarely dose it. I use it on weeks I skip a water change though. Not sure if any visable results would be seen from weekly dosing unless water changes haven't been done for a good bit.

Thanks guys. It sounds like you guys are using it similarly. I do weekly WC and use Aquaforest balling method, so you would think that the trace elements would be good. I'm curious if dosing the Kent product would give me some detectable levels on a Triton test, and if those detectable levels would change anything in the tank.

I don't trust Kent products because they've had some of the most memorable recalls in reefing history - most recently their carbon which crashed a number of tanks with some sort of impurity.