slavetonet
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Beautiful shots, like Mhucasey said, I as well am very interested in your DIY trace and amino supplements, please grace us with elaborating on that more, it's obviously working very well for you.
It is base on the Balling Light formula but with a few extra things added of my own tweak
Bottle 1 - Reef Halogen - Bromide, Iodine, Fluorine
Bottle 2 - Reef Booster - Strontium, Barium
Bottle 3 - Reef Metals - Copper, Cobalt, Manganese, Iron, Zinc, Nickle, Chromium, Molybdenum, Selenium, vanadium.
Bottle 4 - Boron
Bottle 5 - Potassium
Bottle 6 - Amino acids, vitamins and electrolyte
What is still in a trial testing phase is selenium and vanadium as I am still not sure if I will incorporate it into my final formula.
Going to keep in trial till I am happy it is beneficial or a waste of money. :debi:
First 3 bottles 1, 2, 3 goes into the Alk and Cal (randy recipe 1)
Bottle 4 and 5 - into their own as it can be combined. Just need to work out how much potassium your own system use as it vary with different system.
Bottle 6 - That is on its own dosing line.
So basically you can use a 4 channel dosing pump and you are good to go.
Keeping sps corals growing and colourful. :strooper:
Ideally it doesn't make sense to DIY as it cost is alot more than what you would pay individual commercially available product - like the Aqua forest, RedSea, Fauna Marin, Tropic Marin. But over the long term say after 2 years.
The cost would break even and it is pretty much free.
This is base on a 400 L tank - which is common - The economical scale is even better as your tank goes up in size.
If it works very well, you can even sell some to your local reefer friends. :thumbsup: