Instant Ocean
- Thread starter aceroc
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fishamajig
Member
regular kind, I am too cheap to buy reef crystals-although i probabley should. No problems as of yet.
pbienkiewi
Member
Reef Crystals. You can guy a 5 gallon pale for like $60. good for 150 gallons. From a Dr. Site.
mudplayerx
Active Member
I use regular IO and dose kalkwasser. When I run out of kalkwasser I plan to buy "pickling lime" from the grocery store, which is exactly the same thing but 1/10th the price.
fishamajig
Member
yep, regular io and i dose coral vite for the trace elements, i am also now experimenting with (2) products
az-no3 which removes nitrates
and po4 out which removes phosphates
cant get trates to below 5 to 10 ppm
and since i didnt cook my rock i got a shedding prob causing excess phosphates. now i have a nasty little outbreak of hair algie. i am really getting into sps but i have to get all of this under control before I make the investment. darn buggers are expensive and i dont want to weeds to choke em out.
i suppose when my cal starts to be sucked up by my future sps i will be dosing kalk too. a reactor is just too much $$$ at the moment. Ill have to keep it old school.
az-no3 which removes nitrates
and po4 out which removes phosphates
cant get trates to below 5 to 10 ppm
and since i didnt cook my rock i got a shedding prob causing excess phosphates. now i have a nasty little outbreak of hair algie. i am really getting into sps but i have to get all of this under control before I make the investment. darn buggers are expensive and i dont want to weeds to choke em out.
i suppose when my cal starts to be sucked up by my future sps i will be dosing kalk too. a reactor is just too much $$$ at the moment. Ill have to keep it old school.
