suppliments
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HighlandReefer
Team RC
Do you have corals or other organisms that require extra strontium and/or iodine? Most salt mixes have higher concentrations of these two supplements than found in natural salt water. The other problem you run into when dosing strontium and iodine, is that the hobby grade test kits are not of much value to determine if you overdose. 
I use kalk to supplement calcium and alkalinity. Kalk is a balanced supplement regarding alk. and calcium. The only other supplement I use is Randy's Do-it-yourself magnesium mix.
Reef Aquarium Water Parameters
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.htm
Strontium and the Reef Aquarium
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/nov2003/chem.htm
Iodine in Marine Aquaria: Part I
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/mar2003/chem.htm
Iodine in Reef Tanks 2: Effects on Macroalgae Growth
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...l2003/chem.htm
What Your Grandmother Never Told You About Lime
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rhf/index.htm
I use kalk to supplement calcium and alkalinity. Kalk is a balanced supplement regarding alk. and calcium. The only other supplement I use is Randy's Do-it-yourself magnesium mix.
Reef Aquarium Water Parameters
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.htm
Strontium and the Reef Aquarium
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/nov2003/chem.htm
Iodine in Marine Aquaria: Part I
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/mar2003/chem.htm
Iodine in Reef Tanks 2: Effects on Macroalgae Growth
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...l2003/chem.htm
What Your Grandmother Never Told You About Lime
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rhf/index.htm
HighlandReefer
Team RC
Most hobbyists do not have coral or other organisms that require extra strontium or iodine over that found in our salt mixes. Zoas and sps are not among those needing extra, as far as I am aware.
For example, from the last paragraph of Randy's Strontium article:
"Recommendations for Strontium
Remember: in my aquarium without any recent strontium additions, strontium was already elevated above natural levels. I would not like to see it get any higher. Consequently, adding a supplement in the absence of knowing the strontium levels is not advisable."
For example, from the last paragraph of Randy's Strontium article:
"Recommendations for Strontium
Remember: in my aquarium without any recent strontium additions, strontium was already elevated above natural levels. I would not like to see it get any higher. Consequently, adding a supplement in the absence of knowing the strontium levels is not advisable."
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
Hobby Experience: hopefully many more years
Hobby Experience: hopefully many more years
HighlandReefer was nice enough to provide some excellent links and some good informative recommendations- you should read them.
Simply stated: there is no "all in one" supplement.
If you have "a ton of zoas and sps" and you want to keep them alive for any length of time you need to be aware of the relationship between calcium, alkalinity and magnesium. These are the 3 things you'lll need to supplement as they're depleted by (hopefully) growing corals.
The first step is to purchase reliable calcium, alkalinity and magnesium test kits.
Hobby Experience: hopefully many more years
HighlandReefer was nice enough to provide some excellent links and some good informative recommendations- you should read them.
Simply stated: there is no "all in one" supplement.
If you have "a ton of zoas and sps" and you want to keep them alive for any length of time you need to be aware of the relationship between calcium, alkalinity and magnesium. These are the 3 things you'lll need to supplement as they're depleted by (hopefully) growing corals.
The first step is to purchase reliable calcium, alkalinity and magnesium test kits.
Keep to supplementing for Calcium, Magnesium, alkalinity and feeding your critters, along with plenty of water changes. Ignore those myriad of bottles on the LFS shelf's, they are designed primarily to transfer money from your wallet to manufacture's wallet 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14763674#post14763674 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by billsreef
Keep to supplementing for Calcium, Magnesium, alkalinity and feeding your critters, along with plenty of water changes. Ignore those myriad of bottles on the LFS shelf's, they are designed primarily to transfer money from your wallet to manufacture's wallet
Amen to that. If you cannot test for something, don't add it.
