Has anybody used this?

Calcium Additives for Marine Reef Aquariums: Walt Smith's Fiji Gold Coral and Live Rock Supplement

 

I have not used that. I have dosed with Red Sea Calcium+3 which also, in addition to calcium, has Stronium, Molybdenum and Iodine. I am a little leary of using it now as I do not have test kits for Stronium and Molybdenum. I do not even know if I need them. Another newbie mistake in buying something I am not sure of. Oh well. Until I hear otherwise, that is what I use to bring Calcium up if I need to.

Edit: I noticed that it contains Magnesium. Just because it is a combo product with Calcium, I would be hesitant on using it. I have recently purchased a Magnesium additive just in case my Mg goes down too far. I am a big believer in dosing what the body needs individually, so I would imagine the same concept would apply to aquariums.

 

i believe most all supplements are a waste of time/money, the only additive i really use is iodine, and thats very rare still, why do you need that supplement anyway??

 

With the amout of coral slowing going into my tank I will be needing Calcium. I found this and it is all natural; I like that. I want to stay away from all forms of chemicals.

 

Just use a high quality salt with your regular water changes and you'll be fine. No need to dose anything unless you know exactly what your dosing for. Try reading the coral propagation book by Anthony Calfo, It goes into detail about the specific requirements of each species....as i said before i strongly agree with the idea that supplements are a waste of $$ though if you have hard corals its a no brainer to dose Mg, Ca and some form of Alkalinity. For minor species, WCs are the way to go. Most of the other supplement products out there are total crap IMO. My favorites are the "all in one" additives. I wonder how they get enough Ca, Mg and Carbonate plus the dozens of other things they list on their labels to all co-exist in a tiny little 6 oz bottle without precipitation? My guess is they are selling slightly concentrated synthetic sea water which does in fact have all those elements. And someone has already gone to the trouble of mixing it together into a powdered form too ;D

 

what types of coral are you getting into?

 

Currently:

Purple Mushroom
Green Hairy Mushroom
Leather Toadstool
Frogspawn
Green Polyps
Button Polyps

Next week:

Birdsnest
Favia Brain
Candy Coral

Next month:

?

 

Xenia....I have heard. Can't remember where.:-/ Somewhere on the forums.

 

huh

 

He was trying to say that he thinks Xenia needs iodine.