Buffers

[ZBT3091]

I've been looking around at buffers I may need for my reef (lps, mushrooms, zoas) and a thread on reef central says that many of them use nothing but ph buffer and calcium and that all the other products are schemes to sell products. Is this true. I was thinking I should probably add at least iodine, strontium and calcium. I have tropic marine pro reef salt and was thinking water chances once a week would be sufficient.

 

[KathyC]

Hey Zach..water changes should be sufficient to provide all of the trace elements that your tank requires, especially in a tank like yours that houses mostly softies.
The reefers who keep SPS corals often do dose their tanks with different things due to the added needs of those corals.

The best advice IMO would be never to dose anything you don't test for as sometimes it is a thin line between helping your corals thrive and wiping out your tank with an overdose of something you really don't need to be adding

 

[NYreefNoob]

if ph is low then other componets are off, more than likely alk is out of whack do you have kits to test for cal alk and so on ? and as stated really on a lps tank proper wc will do the trick