Dosing trace elements

[brick-brothers]

How often do you dose trace elements when you not doing weekly water changes?

 

[edd]

ck your water and see what its lacking before you start adding things.

 

[duke62]

Only trace elements I dose is K but I check it with a kit before I dose.

 

[TUSI]

If you do water changes every week you don't need to dose trace elements but if you don't then my recommendation is to dose since all trace elements get depleted over the course of no water changes. I dose 5 ml every day tropic marine trace a and k

 

[brick-brothers]

ok cool, thanks

 

[oh207]

I do a 20% water change every 3 weeks. And I dose about 15-20ml of Kent Essential elements every week.
I don't dose anything else and I don't test.

 

[Reef Lobster]

id add something biweekly if i were you. just to keep it in a middle area. not too much or too little

 

[bkstang]

If you do water changes every week you don't need to dose trace elements but if you don't then my recommendation is to dose since all trace elements get depleted over the course of no water changes. I dose 5 ml every day tropic marine trace a and k

It doesn't have to be the case sometimes. It also depends on the Salt mix you use. Some salt mixes are rich in all elements while other need dosing. Example, I use Instant Ocean salt mix and even with the regular weekly WC I need to dose. So the basic rule is to test, test, test.

 

[QueensRob]

Instead of trace elements, look in to dosing coral colors from Red Sea. It has tons of stuff the corals need and then some. I don't dose based on calcium uptake just 2 ml of A,B,C, and D 2 times a week. I have noticed a significant brightening of colors on all corals. Read up on the research of it and you may be convinced.

 

[brick-brothers]

Ok cool, I'll check into that Rob. I use instant ocean myself and I only dose Alk because that seems to be the 1 that always being depleted. I just had a bottle of trace elements that I didn't want to throw away.

 

[QueensRob]

I use Red sea coral pro for water changes. I find this is the best for me. ALk is a little high but it works.