What do you dose your tank with?

[garrett3423]

The title says it all. do you dose everything or next to nothing? i've seen a lot of people saying you should strip down what you dose your tank with but what is "the bare essentials"? and who doses everything?

 

[mike_cmu04]

I dose alk and calcium and from time to time mag.

 

[allsps40]

Kalk in ATO and AAs thats it.

 

[dixiedog]

Ca, Alk, and Mag.

BTW, I don't consider any food or nutritional product (including AA's) to be "dosing". To me that's "feeding".

 

[seashark]

cal, alk, mag,and lugols solution 1 drop a day on 75g system

 

[dez]

I use a Calcium reactor and dose Magnesium once in a while to top up. Other than that I use a few zeovit products like amino acids, sponge power and coral vitalizer.

 

[Dustin1300]

140 mL/day of Calcium/Alkalinity from BRS.
13 mL/day of Mag from BRS

Params I keep are in my sig

 

[sirbiggstixx]

i dose kalk..and vodka ever now and then..

 

[garrett3423]

i've noticed your not the only one that doses vodka. what is it used for?

 

[chefzif]

Run two part with a Lieter meter and dose Mag, and zeovits amino acids and lugols once a week for iodine.

 

[Dustin1300]

Vodka is to get the fish drunk

....It helps keep Nitrates down or at zero! Still a new trend and not really too sure about the long term of this one.

 

[phenom5]

BRS Ca & Alk and vodka.

 

[bigdoug]

IO NNR but switching to Vodka (less expensive), and Ca

 

[acesq]

To maintain calcium and alk levels, I dose B-Ionic two-part with BRS dosers controlled by an Apex.
For nutrient control, I'm trying to run a hybrid Zeo/biopellet system -- dose some of the zeo products but do not use the Zeovit, instead using the biopellets as the bacteria substrate. I dose Zeostart2 at much less than recommended, Zeobak, Sponge Power, Amino Acid and Zeofood7.

 

[jenny1979]

Strontium, Iron, amino acids and Iodine daily, Calcium and Magnesium twice a week, trace elements once a week

 

[Wrench]

The major elements come from my calcium reactor.

Minor supplements are Kent's Coral-vite, lugols, potassium, and aminos from Brightwell

 

[garrett3423]

who here likes to take the minimalist approach to things, and why? why does your method work? (the whole reason i started this thread [realized it wasnt in the best spot afterwords >.< ] is because i havent seen too much of what people dose on here and i know some of you are darn near religious when it comes to it )

 

[Wrench]

I'm not sure I understand your question. You ask what people dose (which often becomes complicated) then you contradict yourself by asking who takes a more minimalistic approach.

 

[Chrishew09]

Brightwell, Elemental as needed
Brightwell, Alk8.3 every other day

I fall in that minimalist category, the elemental keeps CA and trace elements up with one product. The Alk8.3 keeps Alk in check and buffers my PH, if i had an ATO I would use that to add the Alk8.3.

easy peasy

 

[garrett3423]

im just asking what you dose and why you find your approach works, if your a minimalist then why do you feel that works the best for you. not just asking about the minimalists but everybody, sorry for the confusion.