Shanereef
Supporting Member
Is there an all in one supplement that I can add to my system?
-
Welcome back Guest!MARSH is a private reefing group. Comments and suggestions are encouraged, but please keep them positive and constructive. Negative threads, posts, or attacks will be removed from view and reviewed by the staff. Continually disruptive, argumentative, or flagrant rule breakers may be suspended or banned.
all in one supplement (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Shanereef
- Start date
- Tagged users None
Users who are viewing this thread
If there's this hobby was pretty much boring. 
The closest all in one supplement your going to get is a calcium reactor. All you are doing is breaking down old coral skeletons and putting those elements back into the water to be used to make new coral skeletons. There are additional things that I have to use with my tank though, like amino acids and lugols.
Not sure how much I can add since I am so new to this hobby but I have bought two all in one supplements. My fish dont really care for them. They act very lethargic after putting in the supplement. Now I am just target feeding my corals and feeding my fish and doing an 18% water change once a week. All but one of my fish is dead due to ICH from a LFS, the one living is in a Hospital Tank but the corals look AWESOME!
Are you looking for a supplement as in water chemistry or as in food? I assume water chemistry. The big 3 supplements are for alkalinity, calcium and magnesium. Alk and Cal can need supplementing daily with lots of corals whereas MG is usually an every few weeks kind of thing. There are several reasons why there isn't an "all in one" supplement, the two biggest being the interaction between normal alkalinity and calcium supplements if mixed together (short version-doesn't work) and the next being that each tank is different and putting in a "standard" amount for alk, cal and mg when your alk is low and your cal is high can mess your parameters up even more.
That is why you need to test those three and buy supplements according to your needs. Kalwasser is probably the simplest way of maintaining both (imo the closest to an all in one) and is a separate subject which you can research. You also need to monitor your ph and salinity 1.026 is natural sea water and where a reef tank should be- if you run a fish only then 1.021 is fine. Most stores that sell saltwater mixed do it at 1.021 so not the best for coral.
That is why you need to test those three and buy supplements according to your needs. Kalwasser is probably the simplest way of maintaining both (imo the closest to an all in one) and is a separate subject which you can research. You also need to monitor your ph and salinity 1.026 is natural sea water and where a reef tank should be- if you run a fish only then 1.021 is fine. Most stores that sell saltwater mixed do it at 1.021 so not the best for coral.
