ESV Bionic 2 Part Enough Support for Balling?

happysalt · Jan 7, 2020

I was wondering if anyone out there is using ESV Bionic and doing very infrequent waterchanges. Just wondering if it supplies enough major, minor, and trace element support over time that you could go 2 months without water changes if you are running a refugium and skimmer for nutrient export. I was previously doing it with BRS 2 part and dosing the trace elements but I ended up over dosing iron and greening out my corals for a while.

I should also mention I was dosing chaeto grow (Brightwell) at the same time to keep the chaeto in my fuge happy.

Any help would be appreciated!

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jan 7, 2020

The claim is they add everything significant and I am inclined to trust them more than more manufacturers on chemistry issues.

that said, neither this ESV product nor Balling are trace element supplements and a different product may be needed for that purpose, even with water changes.

happysalt · Jan 8, 2020

But wouldn't Triton be considered balling or am i missing something. wouldn't the idea be to be able to dose everything you need to the tank and if nutrient export was adequate you wouldn't have to do water changes. So how do people do it with the triton method tanks without water changes?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jan 8, 2020

happysalt said:
But wouldn't Triton be considered balling or am i missing something. wouldn't the idea be to be able to dose everything you need to the tank and if nutrient export was adequate you wouldn't have to do water changes. So how do people do it with the triton method tanks without water changes?

Balling does not measure things and adjust them.
There’s a technical but not really a functional distinction between 2 or 3 parts systems and Balling.