no my reactor was giving me issues and I was going through CO2 too quickly so I decided to jump on the automatic doser bandwagon a couple years ago. I haven't had growth like this, well, ever and all the parameters are steady (except for alk which I am having a hell of a time with).

Yeah Steve started it. Blame it on him. ;)

Shhh. don't say that to loud.. :mrgreen:

I wouldn't say I started it as people were already doing it as there were test kits available, I think I was just ahead of the bell curve up here though. :wink:

Steve

It really does come down to good marketing. In '99 I was dosing Mg in my reef because Seachem had a test kit and sold the supplement. I had no idea why I was dosing it but Seachem said I should, so I did.

mostlikly, for me it was problems with maintaining my Ca at 380-400 in 2001. my alk was good but I couldn't keep my Ca over 200 no matter how hard I ran my Ca reactor. about 3 days of research on oversea sites and some papers I found on US club boards brought me up to speed on some new tank syndroms. especialy problems with Mg levels in new tanks with DSB's (which were also the new rave and craze about that time) in the end it was a mg level of 800 which was the root of all my problems. this was also about the same time salt companies started to reduce the amount of Mg in there mixes.

Steve

Brad, are you any closer to solving your puzzle?

Mitch