Hi fellow reefers!
I would love to hear what others dose to their tanks! I only dose Brs soda ash, calcium chloride and magnesium mix for corrections. I also dose bacterias like MB7 and clean and alternate them. I occasionally add others like refresh and microbe lift nothing else beside adding brightwells restor to food which is amino acid and don t do that every time!
Recently I bought a bottle of All for reef and was going to switch to that mainly because I dose by hand and like the idea of only adding one pump. Love to hear from anyone using that as well but I think I will save it though for down the road when my new corals coming in are stable! I just read to many stories since I bought it of people having alk swings ect. Wish I could put corals off but they are owed to me for a long time! I am also considering just retuning and using kalk down the road mainly for the up in ph!
After reading Randy Holmes Farleys articles on dosing 2 part I am now wondering if I should switch from soda ash to sodium bicarb I also am seeing many more reviews of BRS bi carb versus soda ash like 28 to 3 on bicarb! I am also having a hard time keeping my calcium stable lately. I just started dosing about 6 months ago. Long story but I was dosing and quit! Plus since I dose now by hand maybe bicarb is better as to not up ph to much at once!
Should I be dosing anything else if I do biweekly large water changes like essential elements, aminos, iodine, phyto, vitamins ect ect. i have mostly LPS, zoas, shrooms, toadstool. and easier sps. I think I am going to start making smaller wc because of stability issue that never dawned on me until I watched a youtube last night! I usually change 30 to 40 pecent just thinking more is better lol
I definitely need to up ph as well so thinking of adding a hob fuge to control nutrients and have heard it can up ph alot. Not sure if a small one will have that much benefit. Anyone know? I have an 20 aio and a 36 g with 10 gallon sump. and a new 20 long frag tank. If I can get double benefits of a fuge that would be great! I have even considered turning my sump into a fuge with these flow through baffles! Brs has a video about that.
My nitrates are 22 right before biweekly WC. I use BRS high capacity GFO which is up to 85 bucks! YIkes! Labor day sale going on so please help! LOL I also use Fritz blue salt!
I am sorry this is so long and multi questions! LOL. Didnt start out that way haha
Appreciate any advice!
I would love to hear what others dose to their tanks! I only dose Brs soda ash, calcium chloride and magnesium mix for corrections. I also dose bacterias like MB7 and clean and alternate them. I occasionally add others like refresh and microbe lift nothing else beside adding brightwells restor to food which is amino acid and don t do that every time!
Recently I bought a bottle of All for reef and was going to switch to that mainly because I dose by hand and like the idea of only adding one pump. Love to hear from anyone using that as well but I think I will save it though for down the road when my new corals coming in are stable! I just read to many stories since I bought it of people having alk swings ect. Wish I could put corals off but they are owed to me for a long time! I am also considering just retuning and using kalk down the road mainly for the up in ph!
After reading Randy Holmes Farleys articles on dosing 2 part I am now wondering if I should switch from soda ash to sodium bicarb I also am seeing many more reviews of BRS bi carb versus soda ash like 28 to 3 on bicarb! I am also having a hard time keeping my calcium stable lately. I just started dosing about 6 months ago. Long story but I was dosing and quit! Plus since I dose now by hand maybe bicarb is better as to not up ph to much at once!
Should I be dosing anything else if I do biweekly large water changes like essential elements, aminos, iodine, phyto, vitamins ect ect. i have mostly LPS, zoas, shrooms, toadstool. and easier sps. I think I am going to start making smaller wc because of stability issue that never dawned on me until I watched a youtube last night! I usually change 30 to 40 pecent just thinking more is better lol
I definitely need to up ph as well so thinking of adding a hob fuge to control nutrients and have heard it can up ph alot. Not sure if a small one will have that much benefit. Anyone know? I have an 20 aio and a 36 g with 10 gallon sump. and a new 20 long frag tank. If I can get double benefits of a fuge that would be great! I have even considered turning my sump into a fuge with these flow through baffles! Brs has a video about that.
My nitrates are 22 right before biweekly WC. I use BRS high capacity GFO which is up to 85 bucks! YIkes! Labor day sale going on so please help! LOL I also use Fritz blue salt!
I am sorry this is so long and multi questions! LOL. Didnt start out that way haha
Appreciate any advice!
