Dosing
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Dburr1014
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Let me ask some questions first.
How often do you test and what do you test?
What size tank and what corals are in the tank?
Have you recently been having issues?
New tanks, low load tanks really don't need much more than water changes. It has everything you need to balance things out.
High demand tanks dose alkalinity , calcium , and magnesium to start. Some may go into more. Trace elements and aminos and such.
How often do you test and what do you test?
What size tank and what corals are in the tank?
Have you recently been having issues?
New tanks, low load tanks really don't need much more than water changes. It has everything you need to balance things out.
High demand tanks dose alkalinity , calcium , and magnesium to start. Some may go into more. Trace elements and aminos and such.
BroccoliFarmer
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I does Nitrates and Phosphates to avoid the dreaded dinos. I also dose kalkwasser although I could probably get away with water changes if I was willing to accept the alkalinity swings .
JazzChing
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I have a 140 litre nano tank and a 15 litre pico tank. I have some tenuis , green slimmer , euphilia , zoanthids and some leather. I don’t do perimeter checking as I change water weekly
thatmanMIKEson
Reefing ain't easy$
Agree don't fix whats not broken, I have a hard time with sps/small tanks/w.c only methods. Dosing "for me" is the easiest cheapest way to keep all the alk/n03-p04 swings down.
Gtinnel
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If you keep SPS corals you ecspecially should be testing parameters. Without testing there is no way to know if you're keeping your important parameters stable. You may be able to easily replenish them with water changes but you could be having a big swing upward when you do a water change.
IMO your nutrient levels are important to know also.
JazzChing
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Which parameter is a MUST for testing ?
Gtinnel
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For hard corals the biggest one is alkalinity, followed by calcium and magnesium. Then for nutrients it's nitrate and phosphate.
Those are the only parameters I manually check on my tank anymore.
Those are the only parameters I manually check on my tank anymore.
thatmanMIKEson
Reefing ain't easy$
my list is alk, salinity, temperature, n03 p04, calcium, magnesium, lighting, flow.
Water changes on a small tank mess that all up, its hard to have certain corals in small tank because of that, its easier just to know there are some corals and some methods in certain size tanks that just won't work with particular skills, until they are mastered. I would go with corals that work then hone your skills so you know these parameters and the whys of testing them, then start down the difficult roads of nano tanks and hard corals.
Thats only my opinion but if you're still going for it test test test, use the exact same water to replace as you take out and look into dosing
Water changes on a small tank mess that all up, its hard to have certain corals in small tank because of that, its easier just to know there are some corals and some methods in certain size tanks that just won't work with particular skills, until they are mastered. I would go with corals that work then hone your skills so you know these parameters and the whys of testing them, then start down the difficult roads of nano tanks and hard corals.
Thats only my opinion but if you're still going for it test test test, use the exact same water to replace as you take out and look into dosing
thatmanMIKEson
Reefing ain't easy$
Nice +2
