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07-27-2008, 10:49 AM
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 Supplements What supplements do you recommend putting into a 75 gallon reef tank on a daily/weekly/monthly basis? I get different answers from different people, but have yet to find a happy medium for my tank. I have a uniquarium with a Marineland filter. Trying to keep leathers, soft corals, clams, and fish.   |
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07-27-2008, 11:01 AM
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| Re: Supplements Well, you really need to just keep testing all your water parameters and just see what needs replenished in a week, two weeks, and so on and go from their. Adding supplements as you need according to the tests is the only way I would recommend adding anything. The goal is to always keep all the parameters as steady as you can, but don’t add anything you cant test for or you are asking for trouble. My tank pretty much maintains its own with all parameters just doing monthly water changes, but time to time I still add iodine and calcium as needed to keep it at the levels I prefer.
__________________ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. 125g Reef Mix: Misc Zoos, Misc Mushrooms, 2 Head Frogspawn, Green Star Polyps, Colt Coral, Sebae Anemone, Wart Rock Anemone, Rock Flower Anemone, 4 True Percula, Clarkii Clownfish, Tomato Clownfish, Naso Tang, Yellow Tang, Vlamingii Tang, Powder Brown Tang, One Spot Foxface, 6 Line Wrasse, Pink Spot Goby, Green Clown Goby, Coral Beauty, Royal Gramma, 6 Green Chromis, Sand Sifting Star, Orange Cleaner Star, 2 Pincushion Urchin, Pencil Urchin, 4 Emerald Crabs, Fire Cleaner Shrimp, 2 Pistol Shrimp, 2 Camel Shrimp, Coral Banded Shrimp, Sally Lightfoot Crab, 10 Red Hermits, 10 Blue Hermits, 10 White Hermits, 10 Orange Hermits, & many Nassarius Snails, along with 400lb LR, 6"/150lb DSB, & 30gal Refugium |
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07-27-2008, 11:12 AM
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| Re: Supplements What things should I be testing? And what brand of tests do you recommend? |
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07-27-2008, 11:24 AM
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| Re: Supplements Any good quality test kit will do, but I use a Hagen master test kit that lets me test for about anything I would need to. Check out this link on what all you need to be testing and where your numbers need to stay. Water Parameters Reef Aquarium Water Parameters by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com Hagen Master Test Kit Hagen Master Test Kit (Contains 10 Test Parameters), Multi Kits > Test Kits > Saltwater Aquarium Supplies
__________________ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. 125g Reef Mix: Misc Zoos, Misc Mushrooms, 2 Head Frogspawn, Green Star Polyps, Colt Coral, Sebae Anemone, Wart Rock Anemone, Rock Flower Anemone, 4 True Percula, Clarkii Clownfish, Tomato Clownfish, Naso Tang, Yellow Tang, Vlamingii Tang, Powder Brown Tang, One Spot Foxface, 6 Line Wrasse, Pink Spot Goby, Green Clown Goby, Coral Beauty, Royal Gramma, 6 Green Chromis, Sand Sifting Star, Orange Cleaner Star, 2 Pincushion Urchin, Pencil Urchin, 4 Emerald Crabs, Fire Cleaner Shrimp, 2 Pistol Shrimp, 2 Camel Shrimp, Coral Banded Shrimp, Sally Lightfoot Crab, 10 Red Hermits, 10 Blue Hermits, 10 White Hermits, 10 Orange Hermits, & many Nassarius Snails, along with 400lb LR, 6"/150lb DSB, & 30gal Refugium |
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07-27-2008, 11:29 AM
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| Re: Supplements Thanks for the advice!  |
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07-27-2008, 11:34 AM
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| Re: Supplements no problem, let us know if you have any other questions.
__________________ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. 125g Reef Mix: Misc Zoos, Misc Mushrooms, 2 Head Frogspawn, Green Star Polyps, Colt Coral, Sebae Anemone, Wart Rock Anemone, Rock Flower Anemone, 4 True Percula, Clarkii Clownfish, Tomato Clownfish, Naso Tang, Yellow Tang, Vlamingii Tang, Powder Brown Tang, One Spot Foxface, 6 Line Wrasse, Pink Spot Goby, Green Clown Goby, Coral Beauty, Royal Gramma, 6 Green Chromis, Sand Sifting Star, Orange Cleaner Star, 2 Pincushion Urchin, Pencil Urchin, 4 Emerald Crabs, Fire Cleaner Shrimp, 2 Pistol Shrimp, 2 Camel Shrimp, Coral Banded Shrimp, Sally Lightfoot Crab, 10 Red Hermits, 10 Blue Hermits, 10 White Hermits, 10 Orange Hermits, & many Nassarius Snails, along with 400lb LR, 6"/150lb DSB, & 30gal Refugium |
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07-27-2008, 01:43 PM
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| Re: Supplements I think you want to know this; Teast for; Calcium, Magnesium, Strontium/Molybdem and Iodine. Alkalinity, PH and Nitrates should be kept "stable".
__________________ "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." Albert Einstein |
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07-27-2008, 03:50 PM
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| Re: Supplements I think it all depends on what you want. Look at it like working out. If you want to grow mussel you need more supplements. If you al already were you want to be size wise you can do less. Now that my corals are where i want them to be i dose kalk for my calcium through my ato, and i dose iodine once a week. I also changed the color of my lighting to grow less and get more colors. When in the early stages i just did bi-weekly water changes to replace elements and dosed calcium. now i do water changes once every 4-5 weeks. I also prefer elos or salifert test kits |
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