Dosing vs. quality salt

[fishytime]

no dosing for me, just water changes......now I wouldnt say that I have had phenomenal growth, definitely no where near the growth I had when I was dosing the tank heavily, before my move.....Im not really disappointed, outstanding coral growth is cool to a point.....then coral warfare and constant fraggin sets in.....

[spawn]

Originally Posted by fishytime

no dosing for me, just water changes......now I wouldnt say that I have had phenomenal growth, definitely no where near the growth I had when I was dosing the tank heavily, before my move.....Im not really disappointed, outstanding coral growth is cool to a point.....then coral warfare and constant fraggin sets in.....

Coral War is sweet.Fraggin is like you said.... But to answer the question, it's not happening with WC's alone.

[reefermadness]

If you have even a modest SPS tank you will not get away with waterchanges alone. I do 20% weekly waterchanges and I dose over 300ml of alk and ca a day. My tank's alkalinity drops 1dkh or so in a day with out dosing. In less than a week my tank would be in real trouble with out dosing.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by reefermadness

If you have even a modest SPS tank you will not get away with waterchanges alone.

I would call my tank a "modest" sps tank

[lpsreefer]

I do smaller water changes every two days. And I get amazing coral growth. Down side only one of my set ups Is stream lined with a new saltline in and drain line out.
Keep n mine the walk from the new salt line is like 10 feet.

[KevinK]

Originally Posted by fishytime

no dosing for me, just water changes......now I wouldnt say that I have had phenomenal growth, definitely no where near the growth I had when I was dosing the tank heavily, before my move.....Im not really disappointed, outstanding coral growth is cool to a point.....then coral warfare and constant fraggin sets in.....

gust to bring it up,as the question is additional dosing y/n, did you, ore do others only add for KH and CA, or also trace materials. ?

I recently moved (5 months back) and have now a 7x3x1 table standing in the living room, and have to admit that taking care of it, is below what is should be, and I see it as well.

this summer a new tank will be build, but for now it has to hang in there.

water changes are not as it should be, nore dosing (exept for KH and CA, and resulting in no coraline algea at all (in my old tank everything was purple), but then I was also dosing.

so in general beside WC, what do you dose ?

[Proteus]

KH CA. MG.

prodibio

That is all