brs Pharma Hybrid Balling Method question

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Thanks again for all you do for the hobby Randy. Just out of curiosity, part C has some trace elements also right? If that’s the case what’s the fallacy in dosing Mg using Part C to dose the general level of trace elements?

The issue is that a trace element supplement doses based on some expectation of consumption rates, and is mostly focused on fast depletion ions such as iron and manganese, while Part C is essentially salt mix without sodium chloride. Thus it is mostly magnesium, sulfate, and other high concentration ions in seawater, regardless of whether they deplete by consumption or not.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

The same question and answer relates to dosing a salt mix as a trace element supplement because it has some trace elements. It just raises the wrong things in the wrong proportions.

 

[BoneDoc]

I know some companies like ATI and Triton would offer individual elements to complement their ICP analysis. Do you prefer that method of trace elements dosing, a generalized method like Balling C and Trace A and K like Tropic Marin…. Or somewhere in between?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I know some companies like ATI and Triton would offer individual elements to complement their ICP analysis. Do you prefer that method of trace elements dosing, a generalized method like Balling C and Trace A and K like Tropic Marin…. Or somewhere in between?

Balling Part C is not a trace element supplement and should not be used or thought of as one.

Tropic Marin trace are supplements and may be fine.

In a perfect world I’d use icp, but I’m not sure current icp offerings are accurate enough to rely solely on them.

 

[BoneDoc]

Copy that. Thank you Randy.