iodine ?

[autotech]

just bought some pulsating xenia do i need to ad iodine to keep them healthy any info would be great thanks

[jdbassin]

first of all never add anything you can't test for, If you have a good test kit for iodine/iodide then yes i'd say adding it would be beneficial, IME, not just to xenia but to any shrimp/clams etc.


jd

[110galreef]

I dose a capeful a week (110 gallon tank) of Iodine and my xenia are doing great and my shrimp are 4 years old as they like Iodine as well.

[REEFSTOCK]

Unless you are finding you CAN'T keep them, I would try keeping them without iodine.

[110galreef]

Wow that is some info!

[ZoaCrazy]

I never suggest dosing iodine. Like mentioned about it is fairly toxic and even if you have a test kit, it's most likely not that reliable. When you dose iodine it is used up very quickly by the aquarium and so you can still be doing damage if your readings are low.

It's a lot like testing for P04. You hear about people that are having algae problems but they always test at 0 P04. That's because the PO4 are used up pretty rapidly by the algae making it tough to get accurate tests from.