NSW - what should I dose?

[WarDaddy]

I am top[ing off with NSW now. It is cheap to buy, I keep a 55g drum full, changes are quick and easy.

My question is this... What should I be dosing when using Scripts or Catalinia water?

I have a CA reactor, but with my current bioload I only have to run it for a couple days every couple weeks to keep the CA above 440.

I have kalk reactor I have yet to hook up. I do not see a need yet.

Aside from CA, what else should I be looking at?

 

[gcarroll]

I use NSW from Scripts. For years I dosed nothing but after dosing Kalk for years I realized that I needed to dose Magnesium and Strontium to keep natural levels since Kalk only adds Calcium and Alkalinity. Remember don't dose anything that you are not testing your tank for.

 

[Crusty Old Shellback]

I've been useing the NSW from UCSB for a few years now. All I've ever added was seachem reef builder which is calicum, mag, stroinum and a little idoed. I also add seachem alakinity buffer. My tanks done great with just that. I recently add a calc reactor to my big tank but still use the seachem products on my smaller tank. easier that way as i do a top off every day w/ RO water so I just add in one or the other with the top off water. Just don't add them both on the same day.

 

[d0cdave]

I too use UCSB NSW. I dose just the Salifert "All in One" at work with the 12 Gallon Nano. At home I have the usual 50/50 Calc/Alk additives as well as trace elements weekly. Coraline is growing like crazy at work, and a little more slowly at home (I dose less often at home).