"Dragon Slayer" wrote in message
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"wolfhedd" wrote in message
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ah, hah, good advice, thankyou. its the thing i would like, yet cant
afford. anything over 40 dollars gets kinda expensize most of the time
with
my budget. i have to buy another 5 gallon bucket of salt and renew my
dKh
buffer solution, and strontium and molybendum
supplements,........................



I'd venture to guess your just wasting money on all of these but the salt.

unless you have a system that consumes these elements, and you'd be
testing
for them rather then just adding it because a bottle said
so...............you don't need to be adding them. sps/lps require
strontium if they are in large numbers in the system and deplete it more
then the water changes replenish it.

get the skimmer, then test kits before you dose anything. don't dose
what
you don't need in a system just because you like to play mad scientist

kc



my nitrate is 200ppb,(0.2ppm), calcium is around 600ppm, a little high yes
but not hurting much, ph is 8.3 salinity 1.026. ammonia 0.0. why fret the
adding of the good stuff? you should see the population boom of thousands
of hot pink tube worms with bright white stems, the thousands of
brownish-purple soft tube worms with soft stems, and then theres these
sponge ball looking things, that they cant figure out even WHAT THEY ARE.
THEY LOOK LIKE SEA URCHIN EMBRYOS, EXTEND THEIR TENTACLE ARMS, ATTACH TO
ROCK, THEN BREAK OFF TO MULTIPLY. those are all over my tank too. It said
on the side of the bottle of phyto plankton will aid in propagation, thats
exactly what it did, it said on the side of the dKh bottle that it would
keep alkinity at a buffering level, did just that. so i have exceptional
base life growth because of the added chemicals. understand, these are only
elements and minerals, and alkalinity buffers that i put into my tank,
besides the aupplemental addition of iodine which is THE MOST ESSENTIAL
ELEMENT IN THE OCEAN according to some marine biologists, and iron, which is
only used to keep the plants healty and good to supplement every once in a
while. What are my base acropora and wierd looking jelly balls, and the tube
worms, and the yellow zoanthids supposed to eat? i add phytoplankton for
them once to twice a week approx, the instructions state to add daily or
every other day depending on animal load.

wolfhedd