trace elements

Hey Reefers! So, I might be in the minority here, but I wasn’t exactly throwing a party when ICP Analysis went out of business. Sure, some folks didn’t mind the gap they left behind, but I had a few reasons to feel a little "oh no, not again." First, I’ve still got four tests left with...

I did some research on Barium’s benefits as a trace element and the draw backs from it being deficient. I found out that some people believe barium has no benefits at all at any level and it can possibly be harmful at high levels. Some reefers also might be mislead from barium being beneficial...

Good morning everyone! I have a new frag tank that I will be selling corals out of. I want to be sure to keep parameters stable. I am looking at the Red Sea Alk,Mag,and Cal. Or should I do the Brightwell Reef Code A and B? I have heard a lot of good things about All For Reef but I think that...

I am getting back on the kalkwasser train and am debating what trace element solution to dose. Im hoping to find a solution that is only one part. What do yall use?

Recently just got my ICP from reef zelements and too my surprise most of my traces are outside the recommended ranges. Some not as bad as others the worst is iodine but Im wanting to get to the bottom of this and need some help from people more experienced with this sort of stuff. I dose reef...

Hey all, so this has been like a 6 month struggle for me, I had a crash in December cuz of a lapse in judgement and been slowly battling my way back. So here's where I am, I was battling really low ph, like 7.6 as a high in my tank in december, ended up grabbing a second probe for redundancy...

Hi, What other trace elements do you dose besides Ca, Alk, and Mg? I just watched a YouTube video with Ryan (BRS) with Lou Ekus and Lou mentioned that there are ~20 essential trace elements that corals require to help them thrive. But I’m not sure what else to dose on a regular basis besides...

I’ve wanting to dose trace elements. I was wondering if anyone does it without doing icp test all the time. I was going to use bright wells trace or Red Sea. I want to use Red Sea though cuz everything I use is Red Sea (products wise). Any suggestions or opinions are great thank you.

At the image you see Heliopora in one of our experimental setups. Some reefers regard Heliopora as the ugliest coral they know. I guess this is because it will never become a colorful coral, it always stays dark brown. And albeit showing interesting growth shapes it will never move in the flow...

Hello, I wonder if any of you do not limit yourself only to balling method (with NaCl free salt), but also makes your own solutions of Bromine, Potassium, Iodine, Strontium and maybe even trace elements. Do you follow any specific recipes?

So I just got trace colors from Red Sea, I am using about 52 ml weekly of calcium on my 200 gallon system, let’s just say 50 ml for this Scenario this week. Would I be correct to say that I would just dose at 5ml of each element this week? Would that be correct?? thanks in advance!!

[updated Jan 24, 2022] I did a thing! I was reading over on another thread earlier today after searching for info on how much of something to dose after receiving a recent ICP-Analysis test. The issue was, my ICP Analysis tells me how much I need to dose to get to the target levels, but the...

I’m part of a Brazillian group of reefers that get together every week to discuss online reefing topics (Amigos do Marinho, YT Chanel ForipaReef). I would like to share with you an interview we made with @Fauna Marin CEO, mr Claude Schumacher, where we discuss with him many interesting topics...

Hi everyone! Need some help diluted trace elements properly. I'm heading out for a week, and have been dosing an AIO trace element at 0.3 ml daily. If I dilute at 1ml of trace element, to 7 ml of RODI, this would be correct? Or 2ml to 14ml if need larger amount. Any issue with liquids separating...

I have a 25 gallon AIO with a refugium in the middle chamber. The amount of chaeto is probably the size of several softballs now. Yesterday, I dosed 2.5 mL of Brightwell Aquatics Ferrion, 1 mL of Red Sea Trace Colors Iron+, and performed a 15% water change. Prior to that I hadn't done a water...

Hi, My name is Hans-Werner Balling and I am doing R&D at Tropic Marin. I also have developed the All-For-Reef. Iodine is a very important trace element for coral growth, coloration and polyp extension. Low iodine concentrations slow coral growth, make the brown color fade to a pale...

I'm currently doosing Tropic Marin's Original Balling Method for about the past year. I manually dose their trace elements, but have a single Bubble Magus Doser sitting around. Would it be safe to mix the two (A- & K+) together and dose these through a single doser??

I was watching this video with @Lou Ekus; he says he personally doesn't like seeing people running GFO 24/7. What are the observed (rather than theoretical) drawbacks with the long term use of GFO? Obviously, a sudden drop in PO4 will cause issues, but this is not what we're talking about. What...

Hi everyone, hope you and your reefs are all doing well. I just wanted to discuss something quick. I’ve read a lot of forums about how doing a 10% water change weekly/bi weekly or a 20% water change monthly is enough to replenish the elements for a softie only tank since they don’t consume a...

I´ve been questioning myself a lot lately: do we really need to replenish all those traces? Do we really need to keep our water as close as we can to sea water? Long ago there were lots of thriving tanks while nobody even knew or talked about trace elements, many were R2R amazing featured...

Hi all, I have enclosed my ICP results and am interested in peoples opinions, and what difference if any dosing the low micro elements would have. Also I note my salifert reading for Mg was way off and there are no readings for Lanthanum or Iron yet I add these for phosphate control. Thanks

Hi all, I got ICP results back from Tropic Marin, some interesting results. Firstly Mg is measuring 1540, I am measuring 1350 on salifert, alarming difference. I will try a different test kit on this. The other major elements were close to my own measurements. I did an aquaforest icp about 2...

So I am thinking to switching to esv ionic b two part to simplify my dosing. However, I currently dose chaetogro as my macroalgae would die without it (as it has before since I do no water changes and quickly depleted the relevant trace elements even when dosing red sea iron and such. Has anyone...

D contains Silver, Gold, Vandium and Tungsten, which red sea says is used in the production of blue/purple chromoproteins (pociliporin , diadinoxanthin and dinoxanthin). I am curious as to whether anyone else thinks that this bottle is completely unnecessary. Their Trace color C has Iron and...

I am doing training to learn about peritoneal dialysis, which uses diffusion across a membrane to remove waste products from people with kidney failure. Has anyone heard of using a membrane and freshly mixed saltwater to remove nitrogen/replenish trace elements this way?