What do you dose your tank with?

[allsps40]

I am a minimalist. Kalk in ATO water and water changes thats it. I keeps thing stable, provide lots of flow and skimming and I feed everything well. I used to dose a bunch of elements and it was a pain and only threw things out of whack. The dosing of ca, alk, iodine, strontium and potassium just made the levels swing to much. Stressing out my sps.

 

[wickedfish]

BRS 3 part. I use a bubble magus t-01 to automate the system. Had to test everyday twice for 3 weeks to get it just right. I have good growth (my blues could be better) and my parameters are very stable.

People I know that keep really nice large tanks do a calcium reactor or the 3 part and don't do the AA or the iodine, just keep the alk, cal, mag levels close to NSW parameters.

The vodka is something to read up on in depth. I have read a lot of threads of people nuking there systems. Also if you have the money Zeo tanks seem to have really nice corals and might be where I go next.

 

[MammothReefer]

brs 2 part on dosers controlled by a acjr, gfo, carbon, ecobak. Was doing kalk instead of brs but due to where I live my evap rate can swing to much daily which caused me to have fluctuations in my parameters as one day it would top off 1/8th of a gallon of kalk, the next day a half.

 

[MrKite24]

I have always and only will dose Ocean's Blend 2-part. It contains trace elements along with maintaining Ca, Mg and Alkalinity. It is the only dosing you will ever need to do.

 

[Fsurocks99]

calcium, mag, and a drop of lugols daily. Water changes do the rest.

 

[32mm32]

I dose magnesium and potasium

 

[oscar.millan]

I dose Alk and Ca using Kalk.

 

[fejer]

iodine, iron, mag, strontium and vodka

 

[jmchzn123]

wow I'm more confused! Wish each one of you would post a pic. In this thing we do the the tanks do the talking. I would never ask a broke dude for a stock tip!.....I am just trying to figure out how to get my parameters stable. Was away on biz for about 3 months. Left instructions and had LFS send a tech every 2 weeks....came home tank was f****d! took a few weeks just to stop the bleeding now basically I have a 10 yr old tank starting all over in a way. Only fish survived. So I want to get into a routine that when I travel even my GF can do it. BUT the more I read the worse it gets. I read all night about ZEOVIT....Those guys are nuts.....I would have to quit my job and sleep w the tank...and every single person does it differently! EVERY POST IS DIFFERENT! There has to be a simpler way to have a nice tank....no SPS that should be simple right? btw when I was home all the time I had a nice tank for years. what to do?oh my!

 

[Brian Chong]

alk ca mag and sometimes iodide if i feel like it. but thats rare.

 

[Brian Chong]

wow I'm more confused! Wish each one of you would post a pic. In this thing we do the the tanks do the talking. I would never ask a broke dude for a stock tip!.....I am just trying to figure out how to get my parameters stable. Was away on biz for about 3 months. Left instructions and had LFS send a tech every 2 weeks....came home tank was f****d! took a few weeks just to stop the bleeding now basically I have a 10 yr old tank starting all over in a way. Only fish survived. So I want to get into a routine that when I travel even my GF can do it. BUT the more I read the worse it gets. I read all night about ZEOVIT....Those guys are nuts.....I would have to quit my job and sleep w the tank...and every single person does it differently! EVERY POST IS DIFFERENT! There has to be a simpler way to have a nice tank....no SPS that should be simple right? btw when I was home all the time I had a nice tank for years. what to do?oh my!

buy a dosing pump for your alk ca and mag and an ato for your top off water. thats it. no need to run zeo to get great colors.

 

[smtank]

Two Parts and magnesium.

 

[burnah]

for those who dose potassium, do you test for it? why did you start in the beginning? i did some readup, and it seems that bacteria driven systems (like mine) need more potassium.

 

[purplereef]

Potassium is so overlooked. I dose it with my Mg supplement. Besides a calcium reactor this is all I dose. I believe in the KISS principle. I have 150 gallons of water and I dose 150mg once a week of Mg and I add 50 drops of Potassium once a week. My blue corals thank me daily.

 

[chuckreef]

150 mg ????
50 mL of what concetration and form of K+

 

[purplereef]

Yep 150mg's of Mg (Kent Marine). Also 50 drops of K+ from KZ(Zeo) once a week. I have found Reef Crystals to be lacking in magnesium and potassium.

 

[NatureNerd]

Kalk in top off water. That's it for me.

 

[burnah]

purplereef, thanks. do you test for potassium?

 

[purplereef]

Yes sir. The KZ potassium test kit, although it is very hard to read.

 

[rezaktp]

BRS cal, A&H baking soda, BRS mag and Mrs. Wages in ATO.