What are you supplementing your nano's with?

[iNfaMous_reeF]

Hey all, I was wondering what you dose your corals with?

 

[Agu]

Fish food and kalk............

 

[chocolateblnt]

ditto ... coral food as well

... just to warn you if you ask vague questions you might get vague response's

 

[scoobasteve]

What is kalk? Someting tells me it isn't that stuff that comes out of the home depot guns and it shouldn't be able to seal up a window. I've read alot about kalk but what exactly is it?

 

[chocolateblnt]

kalkwasser = limewater

 

[madnav87]

What about iodine, magnesium, strontium, etc? Do you think they are necessary

 

[bil2k]

Love

... heheh

 

[theop]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7771944#post7771944 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by madnav87
What about iodine, magnesium, strontium, etc? Do you think they are necessary

Usually these levels will stay ok if you are doing regular water changes.

 

[Jshock]

I dose a couple drops of coral-vite every week after I do my 20% water change. Seems to work fine for me.

 

[calvin415]

B-Ionic for Ca, Alk, and Mg
Waterchanges for everything else.

 

[scoobasteve]

My tanks have always had big evaporation issues; usually a couple gallons a day, alot for a nano tank. I usually use distilled water to top it off, but should i befirst mixing in supplements into the distilled water? I was told at my LFS that when my water evaporates it leaves behin the salt and minerals, so i shouldn't need to add more salt or supplements to the water when topping off. ???

 

[wav3form]

No, just use fresh top off water only - or kalk water in an automatic top off setup. You'd only add salt if you want to raise your salinity if it's too low and you would do that gradually, over a few days or a week.