Dosing additives

[ajhudson15]

I'm wanting to see what everyone opinion is on additives. I currently dose aquaforest products. I dose af build, vitality, energy, amino mix, and phyto.
I'm looking for something that might have all these together instead of spending the money dosing all these separately.

 

[Dogtown]

The problem is that tanks consume the minerals at different rates. What size tank are you running?

 

[ajhudson15]

40b

 

[ajhudson15]

20 gal sump

 

[Dogtown]

There isn’t a single bottle sold that contains everything. At best, you can get it down to 3 or 4 bottles but they are easy to manage. Triton is one. The thing though is that with a nano tank like yours, dosing isn’t really that cost effective. Water changes are cheapest with tanks under 100 gal when you factor in all the different test kits you need to use in order to dose properly. If you replace 35% of your tank water a month, your levels will always be at Natural salt water levels or very close. then you just need to maintain ALK, Calcium and Magnesium. None of the other stuff will be needed.

 

[Rakie]

@Dogtown -- ATI Essentials is also like Triton. It's solid, but due to the crazy elevated pH of my last 2-part, I feel I had faster growth with ME Corals.

with all things in this hobby, YMMV.

 

[Duhnk]

Im doing the Triton method and it’s an easy 4 part.
Gotta start slow with it for Nano tanks and find the right amount to dose and check alk almost everyday.
I did do a icp test and found only 2 trace elements in real need of a boost.