What product or thing really made a difference for your tank?

[Cory]

What product or thing really made a difference for your tank?

For me it was Rox .8 activated carbon.

Upon putting it in my sump i could literally see clear water coming out the other end!

Ive tried many, many carbons, and none performed as rox .8 does.

I dont think i need to buy an ozonizer with rox .8 now.

 

[melev]

Only one item? Hmm. Well, I love Phosphate Rx, but I think the Aquarium Plants CO2 electronic doser made my life better many years ago. It's the key to my calcium reactor setup.

 

[Cory]

Only one item? Hmm. Well, I love Phosphate Rx, but I think the Aquarium Plants CO2 electronic doser made my life better many years ago. It's the key to my calcium reactor setup.

You can choose as many as you like as long as it made a difference.

What has it done better than the previous Co2 regulator?

Phosphate rx is lanthanum chloride? What was the improvements? Do you have to be really careful witb alk?

 

[mtraylor]

The addition of an APEX Controller.

 

[Jdgreef24]

My smart ATO micro.

Early years of tape on the aquarium and hand filling are long gone. That never gets old

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Three things made life easy and corals really begin to show their true potential:

1) JBJ ato. No more adding water twice a day. Consistent SG.
2) Brightwell's Kalk+2. Always dosing Red Sea part B to maintain my alk and allowed a 1 point swing pretty often. Wanted a Doser but thought I'd give the kalk a try first. No more swings or drops in the big 3. Couldn't be happier.
3) SB Reef Light 32" timer version. Replaced the dual kessil 160we. It's a whole new tank after adding this light. Visible growth on sps since adding. New colors showing up. A very happy tank!

 

[Greaps]

Meleves reefs channel and phosphate rx of recent. Stuff is incredible.

 

[Smo]

KZ's ZEOvit system. After only a few months nitrate and phosphate was near zero and is staying there. No significant algae issues on an new tank now approaching 8 months with small CUC. Lots of good coral growth.

 

[benpoole28]

K1 for bio media. Allows me to use minimal rock work and remove it for cleaning anytime I want because I don't rely on it for filtration. Plus it takes a huge air pump moving lots of air for agitation which I think is also very beneficial.

 

[apex003]

Stump remover

 

[Liquid360]

I love my newish Geosreef Fluidized Reactor for GFO.

 

[Cory]

My second choice is my algae turf scrubber.

It really made a dent in po4 and no3. Both are zero now when before no3 was 20 and po4 was .13ppm

 

[Cory]

Stump remover

So how did dosing potassium nitrate help?

 

[hart24601]

Ato. Granted that was a long time ago, but after adding one and stabilizing salinity anything was possible!

 

[scobeyra]

T5 bulbs. Used to just run LEDs and tank did fine. Added 2 t5 bulbs and it took off

 

[Sabellafella]

For me on my current tank, was the addition of kalkwasser. Theres just something about it that boggles me. Almost all of my tanks with and without stoney corals, ive always snuck in kalkwasser about a year in(while dosing), and every single time calcification just explodes.

 

[Ubergroover]

Ozone....

 

[Mal11224]

Definitely my neptunes apex controller and my refugium. Helps control the nutrients in my tank and fuels the pods that feed my 2 mandarins.

 

[apex003]

So how did dosing potassium nitrate help?

Took all my corals from pale and bleached with no growth to great color and growth. Not right for every system, but it was definitely a missing link for mine... I am dosing the equivalent of about 2ppm per day with a dosing pump and only reading 0.5ppm consistently, so its definitely being utilized by the system.

Some will say feed more or add more fish, but I prefer a lighter load and ability to control to nutrient levels.

 

[Oberst Oswald]

Triton Method. Triton made all the difference keeping SPS corals. Admit I have the "easy ones" (Green Slimer, birdnest and M caps etc) but could not keep the same corals before using BRS 2-part. I now daydream of Tank of the Month...