Additives

[Checkitout]

Just wondering what name brand of additives you all add to your tank.

 

[Troylee]

brightwell aquatics...
reef code "a"
reef code "b"
mag
coral amino
lugols
mb7
and albertsons vodka lol....

 

[jordan3548]

Brightwell and ESV I believe its called those are the only 2 companies I use

 

[beaslbob]

calcium chloride tetra flake ($20/50 pounds)
or anhydrous cal chlor ($8/25 pounds)
baking soda arm and hammer
magnesium sulfide ---epsom salts.
magnesium chloride----american salt company magnesium chloride ($30/50pound)
kalk----mrs wages picking lime
ferris gluconate----walgreens ($5 for a bunch of pills each pill good for months)

wet dry Filter material--crushed oyster shells. ($8/40pounds from feed and seed store)

 

[RBursek]

Mrs Wages for my Kalk
American Salt Co for my Mg Chl and Wally Mart Epson salts for Mg Sulfate
Dow Pedalow for my Ca
Arm and Hammer for my baking soda and baked baking soda for Alk
Beaslbob, what does ferris gluconate do?????

 

[Troylee]

Hey I'm not a brightwell fan lol...
Cal,alk, mag, potassium, strotium, mb7, reefsnow,vit c, pyhto green, coral amino, lugols, zooplankton, and restore...lol

 

[CONSTANTNE]

Hey I'm not a brightwell fan lol...
Cal,alk, mag, potassium, strotium, mb7, reefsnow,vit c, pyhto green, coral amino, lugols, zooplankton, and restore...lol

Is the vodka for you or the tank lol :bigsmile:

 

[Troylee]

Strictly for the tank... Me and al cohal cut our friendship awhile back... Althou he gave me a buzz a couple weeks ago and were trying to work it out.... " that's for you kray dog!!"

 

[beaslbob]

Mrs Wages for my Kalk
American Salt Co for my Mg Chl and Wally Mart Epson salts for Mg Sulfate
Dow Pedalow for my Ca
Arm and Hammer for my baking soda and baked baking soda for Alk
Beaslbob, what does ferris gluconate do?????

adds iron. I dissolve one capsule in an old 12 coke bottle of water. then add a capful or so each week. to prevent iron starvation of the macros but so low as to not affect corals.

 

[AZDesertRat]

Other than calcium, alkalinity and magnesium supplements I add absolutely nothing except a good salt mix. The three I mentioned are usually obtained with my calcium reactor but its out of service for the moment so I buy bulk chemicals from Bulk Reef Supply.

 

[gparr]

B-Ionic alk and Ca daily. Kent Mg to supplement new water for water changes, BRS Mg occasionally, few drops of Iodine in my softy tank when I think of it.
Gary

 

[fsn77]

I like Seachem products... Reef Advantage Calcium, Reef Advantage Magnesium, Reef Builder. I've been using those since I first got started about 4.5 years ago.
I've tried the TB Aquatics 2-part / 3-part products and have complaints about those.
When I use kalk, definitely Mrs. Wages. I found a guy locally that stopped dosing kalk, and he sold me all the 1 lb containers he had for $1 each ($2.50 in the store). Needless to say, I have a longterm supply now.

 

[Checkitout]

Well I was using the old seachem liquids reef complete, calcium, and plus but I switched to their aquavitro line up and so far I like it. Anyone else use this stuff?

 

[subdrive]

I use zeoVit products, oh man it made a difference!

 

[fsn77]

I've tried the TB Aquatics 2-part / 3-part products and have complaints about those.

Oh man... Just notice this... I completely made a typo there...
I have NO complaints about the TB Aquatics 2-part / 3-part products. VERY sorry for any confusion.

 

[scott711]

Fish poop. Only consistent additive. I am thinking about bio pellets but haven't started them yet.

 

[Shadowramy]

additives:
Zeo AAHC, CV, Xtra, Sponge, Zyme, Snow, Job Complex, ESV idoine, Lugols, Elos Skimmer

foods
Golden Pearls, Mysis PE, Reef Crack, TLF Zooplac, Reef Chilie

 

[Palancar]

calcium chloride tetra flake ($20/50 pounds)
or anhydrous cal chlor ($8/25 pounds)
baking soda arm and hammer
magnesium sulfide ---epsom salts.
magnesium chloride----american salt company magnesium chloride ($30/50pound)
kalk----mrs wages picking lime
ferris gluconate----walgreens ($5 for a bunch of pills each pill good for months)

wet dry Filter material--crushed oyster shells. ($8/40pounds from feed and seed store)

Same here on the buying in bulk. I have also found that weighing or measuring out some of the bulk material with instructions on the bag label helps if you are away and you have to have someone make up some additive for you, my wife loves it this way. She takes care of our system if I am away at work.

 

[kevinpratt823]

I use Bulk Reef Supply to adjust when my reactor isn't dialed in. Otherwise I use a few Kent products because they're readily available to me.