Thrive Dosing Products

Okay so I'm not sure how many of you have heard or tried this stuff, but wanted to share.

It's a full line of dosing. Calcium, alkalinity, magnesium, iodine, strontium, and potassium.
Only place I know of that carries it so far is Aquatic Dreams.

What you do is take your water in for testing. All your results are written down and then entered into the thrive data base. And it then instantly comes back with a prescription for your tank! And you can have it be tank specific. Like sps dominant, lps dominant, general reef, and a couple others.

The prescription tells you exactly what you need, how much to dose, and when to dose it. Also has tons of salt variations that we use to mix for our water changes. It well also tell you how big of water change to do, what salinity the water should be mixed at to either raise or lower your salinity.

I've already started using it as of today!

On there website. Thriveaquatics.com you can go in make a profile of your tank, all your equipment, parameters, and when you replaced your bulbs and what type.. And it will tell you when you need to change your bulbs or even things like your media.

So far I am very very impressed! And the products are not even expensive. You can buy the refillable bottles for around 20.00 and they are 600ml. Once the bottle is empty you just go buy a refill bag and fill the bottle back up! Refills are like 12 or so.

Here is a little bit of what my prescription said..

Perform a water change by mixing 5.75 lbs(9 3/4 cups) of AQ-systems-instant ocean with 15 gallons of water at 79f. After mixing, check to make sure SG of mixture is 1.028. If reading is lower and more salt until the mixture is 1.028. If reading is greater add more water until hydrometer reads 1.028

After performing water change, it is estimated that the alkalinity will be 7.4dkh, which is lower than your ideal value for this tank. Please add 33ml of Thrive Alkalinity and retest the alkalinity 2 days after completing.

After performing water change, it is estimated that the calcium level will be 386.5 ppm, which is lower than your ideal value for this tank. Please add 60ml of thrive calcium and retest the calcium 2 days after completing the water change.

That gives you a general idea of what the script says.

Oh lol

How did you link it?

This is so cool how you can pick what you want from your tank like jcoulter has Aquarium Type: Balanced Color and Growth SPS Tank

Or you can do just color or just growth also sps dominate or lps dominate. And it will give recomendations for the best way to get this

I still use it and love it. Must be alot of people using it since when I go into aquatic dreams there shelves are near empty

So there are directions on the back of the bottle and directions on a print out that the store gives you?

Yea you can also do it at home. go to there website and put in all your readings and it will give you a prescription for your tank. Follow those ones. You can email them or talk to ryan or ben and they are very informative. I have emailed thrive and they get back to me pretty fast