So I have a fish only with inverts and have battled SCA dinos the past year and trying to get my water conditions in line. The SCA are under control for the moment. My ICP test recommends dosing barium, iodine, manganese, iron, molybdenum and zinc which are all critical low. I've never dosed anything in the 20 months I've been at this. Also, I don't have a doser so it would be by hand which is fine just to get trace elements to where they should be. My question is, all of these individually are going to be over $100 so pretty expensive. If I dose something like Tropic Marin K- and A- it's $70 cheaper and it seems I'd get all of those elements, but also others that I'm either ok or a bit too high on. I don't have corals so that's important to note.
Does it make sense to spend the money and dose the specific elements only or use the Tropic Marin kits and don't worry about going over for other elements? The other issue with the kit is that I probably can't accurately hit the recommended levels ATI specified. It's just a huge difference in price. Thanks for any advice!
Does it make sense to spend the money and dose the specific elements only or use the Tropic Marin kits and don't worry about going over for other elements? The other issue with the kit is that I probably can't accurately hit the recommended levels ATI specified. It's just a huge difference in price. Thanks for any advice!