If you could only add 3 chemicals...

[cobray]

I currently don't add anything except phytoplankton and do regular water changes. I am going to buy some Kent Calcium today. Any suggestions on one or two more vital additives. I want to keep it simple.

[TrouserTrout]

Is your Ca below ~400ppm or do you have a tough time maintaining a certain level? If you don't and want to keep it simple, I would just continue doing WC's.

[xtopher]

I don't add anything, I have a Ca reactor but that is to maintain my sps and football sized, and other, clams.

[zxcv123]

I never add anything. I drip Kalk and do water changes.

[Jay357]

Have you tested your Cal? Always check b4 you dose.

Jay

[pastina]

if your adding kalk then yeah your adding "something" lol

i add calcium and alkaline builder by seachem and iodide once in awhile

not sure if your including carbon etc on the list, but i use carbon and phoszorb on one tank and chemipure only in an other tank.
i used to add phyto and all those othe corals feeds until it nearly destroyed my tank

[Twitterbait]

calcium reactor... bam boom. that's all you need besides WC

[zxcv123]

I have never photo fed any of my softies. I squrit my polyps with mysid now and then but thats about it

[yellow submarine]

the key to reef success is consistant waterchanges, consistant feedings, consistant parts cleaning, consistant lighting, consistant waterflow, consistant heating, and on and on.

by "consistancy" I'm talking about following a routine schedule planned out on a CALENDAR. You plan what you going to do on a calendar day by day by day and follow it to the "T"

sidenote: I also have a discus tank and fell into the trap of adjusting pH adding this&that to simulate the amazon river.... i lost 2-3 discus at $50-75 a piece messing around with the water quality. for the last 1.5 years all I do is a weekly WC with just plain old tapwater that comes thru a wholehouse filter and then gets softened by a salt-based watersoftener and then gets dechlor'd with PRIME. I ahve no idea what my pH is or any of that junk. I HAVE NOT LOST ONE DISCUS SINCE JUST LEAVING THE WATER ALONE.

Sometimes you can just OVERDO these things....waste money.... and acidentially kill corals and fish

[zxcv123]

I am quoting someone on this, but alot of suppluments contain heavy metals that:

when overdosed can cause BIG problems
When really overdosed can be catostofic

[Geoff]

first: do not add anything you can not test for.

all i add is Ca and alk. the rest is done with WC.

it is better to feed zooplankton than phosplankton.

G~

[tdwyatt]

Just tagging along.

btw, ca reactor (so I add aragonite and CO2) , once a week target feed the LPS and the anemones, once a week strip or two of nori algae (remove what is left after 1 hr), and once a week 10% wc, period.


...everything else is to improve export.

[Loverotties]

I drip Kal,cal. and RO/DI water!

[Wiskey]

I don't and won't use phyto, it is pure phospate. I use CA, ALK and MAG for my tank, anything else is taken care of by water changes.

Whiskey

[pastina]

Originally Posted by Wiskey

I don't and won't use phyto, it is pure phospate. I use CA, ALK and MAG for my tank, anything else is taken care of by water changes.

Whiskey

yep stay away from that phyto stuff
unless you want "Algae bloom in a bottle"