Reef Discussion
Is that just the simple powdered stuff that they sell in the 1kg batches??
Yeah just mix that up with RO water... Though I bake the Bi Carb first as suggested in Randy Recipe..
- 1/4 cup phyto every now and then with some rots
- bicarb soda when alk is low
- damp rid when calc is low (which is never)
- regular water changes keeps everything else at nice levels
- Forgot to add: continuum 'bio viv M' to supplement any feed I add
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Awesome thanks mate, do you dose as needed or at a particular rater? Just about to start dosing myself so few questions from personal experiences need be asked :P
Calc, alk and mag - randy's slop made from whatever quality grade of chemical I can buy in quantities that make all and sundry believe I'm running a drug lab. It's on a dosing pump on my display system. It goes through a fair bit of the stuff despite being light on the SPS. Usually a lot of small doses throughout the day rather than bigger, less frequent doses.
Anything else probably comes in a Brightwell bottle - KoralColor, Zooplanktos-S, Microvore, Reef Snow,Vitramin-C, Restor, and whatever else I've forgotten. Combinations of which, when and how much vary greatly. The frag system sometimes gets some of this, but at the moment is on a Red Sea diet while I try to replicate some results I've had in the past. Zooplanktos, Microvore and Reef Snow tend to be stuff I frequently throw in. The others are for specific uses. I had debated using their Lugols Solution as an additive for a while, but given its cost and the potential risk I've gone back to just using that as a dip.
Anything that gets added has some rational reason for going in - specifc corals that consume what it adds, potential growth benefit, colour benefits, third hand information from a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy that dosed something and his tank mutated into an ultra wanker grade SPS farm, etc. I tend to try different things as they're suggested to me and I see what happens. I can't even remember what half of them do any more. I worry about that when the bottle's empty :P Dave @ Deer Park is pretty good to talk to about Brightwell products, and @K&J Aquatics carry a pretty good supply of their gear.
Anything else probably comes in a Brightwell bottle - KoralColor, Zooplanktos-S, Microvore, Reef Snow,Vitramin-C, Restor, and whatever else I've forgotten. Combinations of which, when and how much vary greatly. The frag system sometimes gets some of this, but at the moment is on a Red Sea diet while I try to replicate some results I've had in the past. Zooplanktos, Microvore and Reef Snow tend to be stuff I frequently throw in. The others are for specific uses. I had debated using their Lugols Solution as an additive for a while, but given its cost and the potential risk I've gone back to just using that as a dip.
Anything that gets added has some rational reason for going in - specifc corals that consume what it adds, potential growth benefit, colour benefits, third hand information from a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy that dosed something and his tank mutated into an ultra wanker grade SPS farm, etc. I tend to try different things as they're suggested to me and I see what happens. I can't even remember what half of them do any more. I worry about that when the bottle's empty :P Dave @ Deer Park is pretty good to talk to about Brightwell products, and @K&J Aquatics carry a pretty good supply of their gear.
Where do you buy it from??
3 part, although I rarely need to supp mag
potassium powder most days
I run full Zeo so theres a bunch of other random dosing most ppl don't care about
phytoplankton occasionally
Other than Zeo I don't dose much else. Although we don 't know what's in Zeovit it's stood the test of time, unlike 95% of these other supps available.
potassium powder most days
I run full Zeo so theres a bunch of other random dosing most ppl don't care about
phytoplankton occasionally
Other than Zeo I don't dose much else. Although we don 't know what's in Zeovit it's stood the test of time, unlike 95% of these other supps available.
Multiple times each day through Dosing Pump
Red Sea Calc and Strontium
Red Sea Alk
Red Sea Mg
Zeo Start 3
Zeo Sponge power
Zeo Food
Elos Trace Elements
Manual dosing
Zeobak once a week or so
Zeo bio mate about twice a month or when i notice a mulm build up
Red Sea Calc and Strontium
Red Sea Alk
Red Sea Mg
Zeo Start 3
Zeo Sponge power
Zeo Food
Elos Trace Elements
Manual dosing
Zeobak once a week or so
Zeo bio mate about twice a month or when i notice a mulm build up
i love to dose my vl commy turbo, whilst doin single leggers round da roundabout in broadmeadows whilst i say YAYEEEEE
aint that the truth @rockerpeller
aint that the truth @rockerpeller
Wow a le random jono! where have you been mate?
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