i cant make a WAG (wild a$$ guess) as to what your system needs. you have to
detremin that by testing, which you can get a test kit for those listed.
some arent so cheap tho.

kc

"wolfhedd" wrote in message
ink.net...
no, wasnt aware that tests were needed for those, or that they were even
available, so i decided to do the math. i read the percentages of iodine,
not iodide, on the bottle of essential elements, or coral vite, whichever
of
the two has it in it, then i add that to what i supplement with the bottle
of iodine to come up with the total tank intake. To come up with dosage,
take lowest value of recommended amount to feed/amount of animal load,
which
in is a ratio under 1 because i have small animal load and multiply by
dosge which is a capful or 5ml. so it ends up being about 4 ml/2wks and i
take that in half so as not to over dose. so basically i give 4-5 ml a
month of iodine a month, and change the water 4 times in that given month,
before starting the next cycle. strontium ends up being twice week 5ml,
then water change. iodine hasnt been added but once in last 2/1/2 months,
iron hasnt been added in last 3 mos, because of hair algae boom. do you
think that the strontium or iodine at the reates i use them ar harmful to
anything? tank is 55-60 gal, sump 6 gal.

wolfhedd

"Dragon Slayer" wrote in message
...
you test strontium, iodine and moly???

and all are being consumed at larger rates then water changes can
replenish
them?

kc

"wolfhedd" wrote in message
news
so isnt it ok to be using these chemicals since they seem to be being
used
up by the tank, and since i DO test my water, and that there is more
method
to my madness than you assumed? lol

wolfhedd


"wolfhedd" wrote in message
k.net...

"Dragon Slayer" wrote in message
...

"wolfhedd" wrote in message
news 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