With this tank I am going to attempt to severely cut water changes with a combination of strategies using Chaeto, GFO and NO3:PO4-X to control nitrates and phosphates. These will be put in place and tuned as needed. I will be dosing Trace Elements with Red Sea Coral Colors.
I needed to figure out how much trace elements to dose. I use
Reef Crest 2 Part System so I though I'd come up with a number to easily work this out for myself and anybody else who may use Reef Crest and be interested in using RedSea Coral Colors. So far this is what I have come up with. If you see anything wrong with my math, let me know!
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The instructions on the RedSea containers say use
1mL of additive for every
20ppm Calcium added per 100L when using 3rd party products.
First off, I got a number of
http://reef.diesyst.com Reef Calculator that
~0.0139g of Calcium Chloride to increase 1 gallon of water by 1ppm.
A bag of Reef Crest Part A Calcium contains
400g of Calcium Chloride.
This is mixed into 1 gallon of water which is equal to
3785.41mL
So 3785.41mL / 400g is
a ratio of 9.463mL:1g
RedSea instructions are in Litres so converted 100L to
26.4172 gallons
26.4172 Gallons * 20ppm =
528.34ppm if the volume was of water is 1 gallon.
528.34ppm * 0.00139g =
7.34g of Calcium Chloride used to raise ~26 gallons/100L by 20ppm
9.463mL * 7.34g =
69.5mL of mixture Reef Crest Part A Calcium Solution
Therefore if my calculations are correct,
for every 69.5mL of Calcium dosed, you must add 1mL of the RedSea Coral Coral Additives when using the Reef Crest 2 Part System.
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