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View Poll Results: Do you dose supplements? | |
Yes, regularly.
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Occasionally.
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No.
|    | 4 | 17.39% | 
10-06-2005, 12:47 PM
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#1 (permalink)
| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
Posts: 7,325
     |  Do you dose supplements?
I've been thinking about dosing lately. I have a love/hate relationship.
Do you add anything?
Do you notice any difference?  | 
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10-06-2005, 01:43 PM
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#2 (permalink)
| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
Posts: 1,294
| Re: Do you dose supplements?
The RO/DI water that some of us add is very low in alkalinity. And unless you do FREQUENT water changes (not my favorite thing in the world) How are you supposed to keep your alkaline levels up along with your calcium?  I know quite a few people who dose with Kalswasser or pickling lime (I have some myself) And my wife likes to use a 2 part solution of a buffering agent and calcium additive. I can see a change If my calcium levels were low, add an additive, then test my water and the other thing I have noticed is that my coral banded shrimp likes to molt when I put in some of the two part additive If I haven't dosed in a month or two.
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90 Gallon glass, 135#'s of rock and 2" sand. 2-250w 20k XM metal halides. 2-95 watt actinic VHO, 4 powerheads, Coralife skimmer. Maroon Gold Striped Clown, Blue Chromis, Kole Tang, Pygmy Angel, Serpent Star, Brittle Star,Gorgonians, Mushrooms, Yellow Polyps, Turbo Snails & Blue Legged Hermits. 20 gal sump with Caulerpa, Mag 7 return pump.
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10-06-2005, 01:48 PM
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#3 (permalink)
| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Illinois Age: 30
Posts: 390
Karma: 87
 | Re: Do you dose supplements?
The only thing I dose at this point is Kent Marine Kalkwasser and Calcium buffer if needed. I don't see any noticable changes. I like to keep my calcium at around 410ppm - 420ppm
I did however just order a test kit for Iodine and I was planning on dosing Iodine supplements if my test show that I have to. I recently purchased some Xenia and from what I've been reading everyone says Iodine is a key ingredient for Xenia to be healthy.
Sean
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90 gallon reef, mag 1800 main return pump, 10 gallon refugium + 10 gallon sump, CPR overflows, ASM G-1 skimmer, icecap 660 vho 440 watts. 130#LR and 60#LS. Corals: Finger Leather, Fat Finger Leather, Toadstool, flower pot sps coral, hairy mushrooms. Fish: Yellow tang, Bi-color angel, pecula clowns, royal gramma, coral beauty angel, yellow tail damsel, blue damsel, Sergeant Major Damsel. Misc. hermit crabs, snails, flame scallop, Xenia | |
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10-07-2005, 07:02 AM
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#5 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Riverside, RI Age: 36
Posts: 423
Karma: 63
| Re: Do you dose supplements?
Does calcium count?
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100 gal touch tank for propagation;Current Sunpod2 HQI @1400k HQI ,38 gal Korrall sump, ASM G-3 skimmer, Mag 9.5. Stock changes often
125 gal ;Aqualight Pro HQI 2 HQI@1400k / Compact Fluorescent/Lunar Light Fixture, 5 powerheads, 30 gal sump, mag 12(return),Ocean runner 3500(return through chiller), ASM G-3 skimmer, UV sterilizer, Artic chiller Tobacco bass, maroon clowns, Seriatopora guttatus, Seriatopora hystrix, capricornis, Acropora, Spongodes, porites, Turbinaria,Stylophora pistillata, etc
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10-07-2005, 07:56 AM
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#6 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Denver, CO Age: 26
Posts: 67
Karma: 20
| Re: Do you dose supplements?
I just started in the last week since I got my first coral... no opinions yet
Picked up some iodine and calcium. _________ 
Setup:26 gal. bowfront (started 8/05) 130W PC. Fluval 304. 80 lbs. live rock.
LiveStock&Coral: Perc clown, Pygmy Angelfish, cleanr shrimp, Ricordia, Xenia, KenyaTree, shrooms, Lobo, Zoos, Hammer, green star, candy cane.
NEW! 6 gal nano at work. Osc clown, zoos, mushroom, clnr shrimp, g star, sun polyps | |
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10-08-2005, 06:49 AM
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#7 (permalink)
| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: East Taunton, MA,Massachusetts
Posts: 376
Karma: 66
| Re: Do you dose supplements?
I dose my tank with B-Ionic and Reef Essentials....So far so good... _________   | |
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10-09-2005, 07:24 AM
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#8 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Riverside, RI Age: 36
Posts: 423
Karma: 63
| Re: Do you dose supplements?
I am not going to count calcium because it is a given IE. no calcium= no live coral, so no I do not dose | |
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