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Posted	marine supplements
03-05-2006 00:53 by craig	if i am using red sea coral pro salt do i need to add any other supplemments to tank or not
03-05-2006 08:14 by Lee Smith	hi craig, what are you keeping in the tank i.e. fish only, reef etc what size tank is it?
03-05-2006 08:19 by craig	38x20x20 will be doing reef
03-05-2006 08:27 by Lee Smith	as you say will be doing i gather your just starting. best policy is to test and tweak small amounts at a time, try and keep things as stable as possible. water changes help, i change around 10% a week. what sort of system you planning?
03-05-2006 09:10 by Alan	The 10% water change policy should help with depleted minerals the only way to be sure is once the tank is up and running test the calcium for example just after a water change and then just before this will give you an idea of the consumption rate you can do this for a number of minerals. In a l,ot of cases a basic reef requires no additional minerals if water changes are carried out regularly its only when things get technical with sps corals and the like does the need for supplements arise or event the need of a calcium reactor.
03-05-2006 09:15 by Lee Smith	hi alan, one thing that seems to get used up quickly is iodine/iodide do you find this too?
03-05-2006 09:20 by Alan	Difficult to test for though and dosing it is questionable as apparently most of the iodine supplements about are not bioavailable.
03-05-2006 09:30 by Lee Smith	i test using a salifert test kit the latest ones are much better and easier to use. i add reef plus to help keep things going well, it made a noticeable improvement when i started to use it, about 9 months ago. my tanks around 150 gallons including sump so probably got quite a large buffering capability. things generally change slowly so easy to correct i hope! smaller the volume the harder it becomes craig
03-05-2006 17:40 by drummerduck	So is iodine usless to add?
04-05-2006 08:48 by Alan	NO but it must be added with care as it is a potent oxidiser to much and your corals will hate you to little and they won't do as well as they perhaps could its like everything with reef keeping all must be in moderation and carefully controlled.

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