strontium for sps growth

[james72]

Anyone have success stories of adding strontium to promote growth in sps?

[MarcoVan]

Heard of it but it's hard to get proven

[sherman]

Last time I try then NO3 go rocket up

[cedricang]

Last time I try then NO3 go rocket up

A very interesting observation relating Strontium to NO3 level.

Wonder if anyone also experience the same outcome as well ?

[Admiraltian]

I read somewhere strontium helps to promote coraline algae growth. Guess its also boost other forms of algae growth.

[Kakani]

For SPS grow instead of strontium why don't increase your CA and MG level. Heard it help in grow.

[weihsiang]

Strontium help corals to build skeleton

I dont think it increases No3 though...

[thomas_lim]

yes, interested to know if anyone else experienced the NO3 effect on Sr dosing.

[dnsfpl]

hearsay it promotes plating coraline algae

[Cheeng Su An]

interesting , i read online saying it is not advisable to dose it without proper test kit to check on its level , overdose Sr is a bad idea

[Kayakkite]

I tried strontium and cyano seems to grow. Not sure if it's related. Once I stopped dosing and increase flow, cyano algae seems to disappear.

Now, I only use to increase mg and ca.

[Quas111]

In my opinion you should only dose a trace element if it depletes and if you see positive growth due to it

[brojj]

I dose strontium because it comes with my Part A, ionically balanced mix of Ca, Mg & Strontium. Have been using for arouund 2-3 years. So far no issues of those mentioned above. Sometimes things happen is not due to what we dose in, rather it would be some other factors. IMO, those strontium/ trace elements sold are very low in concentrations & it will not do any harm if we follow the instruction provided. It will also do not do any harm if we stopped. Water changes will be enough to replenish those trace elements & strontium lost thro' marine activities, if done on a regular basis. (Excluding the big 3 which requires daily replenish depending on the tank livestocks). Look at those tanks with regular water changes, those corals colors & Growth are insane. No need to say any more after looking at them.

[pandagold]

My personal 2 cent opinion . I've been using all sorts of trace dosing ...... ( other than regular KH, CA, MG ). I've stopped using all those for past 3 months especially carbon dosing , all my sps colored and no issues . But the hind side , I conduct regular water change once a week ( 20 % ) to keep No3 and Po4 in check , and of course control feeding. Somehow I personally feel if you have a good salt mix , I don't have to dose the others traces Pls don't "bomb " me , this experiment is only applicable to my tank

[Kakani]

My personal 2 cent opinion . I've been using all sorts of trace dosing ...... ( other than regular KH, CA, MG ). I've stopped using all those for past 3 months especially carbon dosing , all my sps colored and no issues . But the hind side , I conduct regular water change once a week ( 20 % ) to keep No3 and Po4 in check , and of course control feeding.Somehow I personally feel if you have a good salt mix , I don't have to dose the others traces Pls don't "bomb " me , this experiment is only applicable to my tank

Yup good salt make big different. Personnal I recommand tropic marin sea salt. Some of my friend using it and there good improvement in sps colour. Because good sea salt should has more trace element as for tropic marin it stated 70 different type of trace element. The trace element I mean is not KH, CA and MG. But you need regular water change weekly and depend on your coral if your tank full of coral maybe water change not enough need to dose the colour element to maintain your sps colour. End of the day is what type of intense colour you aim for.

Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

[braincoral]

I changed water every 2-3 days to replace whatever elements that are lose..

so far ok..

[spgohjc]

Firstly don't dose anything you can't measure.

Overdose of strontium = poison.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk