Purified Water and Instant Ocean Salt

[geekdafied]

I would reccommend getting a magnesium, calcium and alk test kit before buying any supplements and make sure you need them before buying them. Also if you dose one of the 3 to adjust something without checking, you are more then likly going to throw something out of balance. You dont always go by what the instructions say on dosing. You go by what your tests say.

[geekdafied]

I use kents essential elements and have had excellent results with it. I also dose calcium once a week as needed until I get my tank situated and set up a limewater drip.

[clownfish]

dude, everytime I see you write you come up with something new...sigh...limewater...you knew I would ask and yet you wrote..so here it goes...what is a limewater drip?....I think I'll buy a cat instead.

[omard]

Originally Posted by clownfish

I should mention though, once my tank's ready to add inverts, etc. I plan to use this:Marine Reef Aquarium Supplements: Seachem Reef Complete or any of these two Reef Calcium , Calcium Additives for Marine Reef Aquariums: Walt Smith's Fiji Gold Coral and Live Rock Supplement anybody here used any of 'em?



OR if you can recommend a supplement that can take care of all elements needed to maintain a reef, let me know. Thanks!

Forget all that stuff...You are wasting money you could better use elsewhere. Your salt mix will add everything you need initially. Maybe after testing and depending on what you want to keep, you may want to bump up Ca. Water changes take care of rest for me. (again, I use just plain old IO)

[jimw369]

I visited a Sea Turtle hospital a few months ago while on vacation. Just for grins and smiles I took a picture of the salt they use in their tanks.

The person in charge of marine husbandry told me they use up to 2000# a month.(or was it 4k?) Anyway it was a lot!

[geekdafied]

Originally Posted by clownfish

dude, everytime I see you write you come up with something new...sigh...limewater...you knew I would ask and yet you wrote..so here it goes...what is a limewater drip?....I think I'll buy a cat instead.

Im sure you've heard people talk about kalkwasser, well that's german for limewater, lol. There is lots of DIY drips out there, super simple to make. I am going to be making a new one soon, I'll take pics of it when I do it, if I do it, Im still reseaching other ideas in replace of it.

for the doser/drip
Need a clear bottle, the size varies by the size of your tank.
Rigid airline tubing
Flexible airline tubing
Airline regulator

For the limewater
RO Water
Pickling lime (the dry kind, not the wet, (mrs wages is what I use)

Thats it. Then you have to put it all together, but thats another thread, haha.


I use love cats when I was little, never understood why my mom really didnt like them, well I do now, and I cant stand them, hahaha.

[ziggy222]

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Oh, I apologize ziggy, you did mention that and thank you....I also noticed you use tap water with dechlorinator....I have the Tetra's Aqua Safe, which claims to get rid of chlorine, chloromines, copper, iron and others...I wonder if this in fact true....I have no idea how good/bad my tap water is, but when I first set my tank up (a month ago) I did use tap water with the AquaSafe and the IO....do you know how effective the aquasafe is or if it works as they say at all?


dechlorinator is dechlorinator.only difference i ever noticed between brands is price.you can also let it sit and let the chlorine evaporate out or aggitate it to speed up the process.as far as using tap water,i think most tap water is safe to use a few times.it usually takes awhile,many top offs and water changes for the bad stuff in tap water to build up to dangerous levels.i've been using my tap water for 7 yrs,8 months in my present reef and never had a problem so i'm assuming that i have very good water.some day i will get a rodi hickymajig or whatever but everything fine for now.i think i'm going to get a much needed new stand and design a new sump 1st.