Extremely Happy with Tropic Marin Combo

[ElementReefer]

Hi Everyone!

I’m coming up on 2 years since setting up my first reef tank, a simple 55 gallon sumpless that I run on an internal skimmer.

It hit stability around year one, was dosing two part, when I got lots of coralline and stopped routinely losing LPS frags. However I still wasn’t having success with even simple SPS, and my coral grew very slowly.

About 3-ish months ago I switched from a standard reef salt to Tropic Marin Synbiotic and about a month ago I replaced the two-part with All For Reef. I figured hey, this is an easy way to hit everything I’ve been reading about at once - bacteria dosing, carbon dosing, trace elements, etc etc. if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.

Everything improved in a month. My Monti doubled in size. New SPS test frags are growing within days of entry. Colors on all coral have improved.

I rarely ever give a shout out to a company, but I feel like I have to. It’s effective, but more importantly it’s easy.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

What two part were you previously using?

 

[soreefed]

All for reef seems more and more tempting with each user who see good results. Rarely see “bad” tanks using all for reef. I also have been tempted by tropic marine carbon dosing products. I am extremely hesitant to move away from two part as I have had good success with it. Why fix what isn’t broke?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

All for reef seems more and more tempting with each user who see good results. Rarely see “bad” tanks using all for reef. I also have been tempted by tropic marine carbon dosing products. I am extremely hesitant to move away from two part as I have had good success with it. Why fix what isn’t broke?

There are pros and cons to every method, including AFR.

 

[X-37B]

I have neen running A4R on my 20g. Works as well as the 2 part I was using.
Time will tell as its been 6 weeks and everything looks good. To early to tell growth and color but nothing has changed and the tank is still growing.

 

[soreefed]

There are pros and cons to every method, including AFR.

Yeah that’s fair! I haven’t seriously considered switching as I like having the individual control that two part offers.

 

[ElementReefer]

What two part were you previously using?

Seachem

 

[ElementReefer]

All for reef seems more and more tempting with each user who see good results. Rarely see “bad” tanks using all for reef. I also have been tempted by tropic marine carbon dosing products. I am extremely hesitant to move away from two part as I have had good success with it. Why fix what isn’t broke?

I 100% agree with you.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Seachem

They seem unable to design many chemical products to work as claimed, so trying a different one might also be useful if you even want to move away from AFR.

 

[ElementReefer]

They seem unable to design many chemical products to work as claimed, so trying a different one might also be useful if you ever want to move away from AFR.

Thank you, I will consider that.

 

[stoney7713]

I've been using AFR for a couple months and I am very pleased with it. A couple times I had to dose Alk to bring it back in line but my tank is really starting to take off.