ReefManager ICP Tool

Support for most supply systems

In principle, you can support almost any system with the ReefManager App. But why is this useful if you are already using a complete system?

The problem with coupled systems

The supply systems of many manufacturers are coupled to the dosing of KH, Calcium, and Magnesium. The trace elements are mixed in fixed ratios. While this may seem simple and convenient at first glance, it leads to a problem:

• Optimized for high consumption: The mixing ratios are designed to keep trace elements just stable in tanks with high consumption (a lot of growth) without anything accumulating.
• The vicious cycle with low consumption: In tanks with low stocking or little growth, an expensive cycle is created:
  1. The KH, Calcium, and Magnesium dosing is low.
  2. As a result, only a few trace elements are supplied.
  3. However, the consumption of trace elements is often more or less independent, and they drop to critical levels.
  4. This deficiency further slows down growth, which in turn reduces the dosing of the main components.

The ReefManager App

The app solves this problem by:

1. Calculating exactly how much of certain trace elements your supply system has under-dosed.
2. These consumption-related deficits, which your manufacturer's combined dosing solution does not compensate for, are specifically balanced with two individual trace element solutions - the anion and cation mixes.

Why two solutions? Anions and cations must not be mixed in one solution, as they would otherwise chemically precipitate and become unusable.

Click the + in the top right to add an ICP. Enter your complete ICP analysis.

Important: Pay attention to the correct units and convert if necessary! Example: Iodine 0.067 mg/L = 67 µg/L

How to set dosing parameters:

Click the ICP Elements icon in the top bar next to the info icon to tell the ReefManager app the dosing parameters. These define two crucial things:

• By how much µg/L or mg/L a defined addition increases the concentration in the tank.
• How the elements behave in the aquarium (the so-called dosing factors).

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Important Notes and Warnings

1. Using Presets (AT YOUR OWN RISK!):
First, click on "OSCI-Motion Standard" to get rough dosing factors as a starting point. You will need to optimize these later, as they depend on your individual tank (buffer systems, oxidation, etc.).

Important: This can only work well if the manufacturer of your trace element solutions has actually bottled exactly what is stated on the label. If more or less is included, you could ruin your tank with this recommendation! If in doubt, use the OSCI-Motion trace elements, as we are in close contact with this manufacturer and know the composition.

2. Adaptation to your products (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!):
Then adjust the increase values (and thus automatically also concentrations) to YOUR OWN trace mixes from your manufacturer. You will find the necessary information on the bottle (Important: you may need to convert the dosing information on the bottle, make sure the units and dosing amounts are correct!).

If you have problems with this, seek help in the ReefManager WhatsApp Group.

Create Base Trace Element Supply

Now it's time to create a base trace element supply for your tank in the app. To do this, you need to create an anion mix and a cation mix.

Important Note: Since you are using a coupled supply system that already supplies a (unknown) base amount of trace elements via KH, Calcium, and Magnesium, you cannot use the "OSCI Start Mix". This is designed exclusively for completely decoupled systems like OSCI Motion.

For coupled systems: Create empty mixes

You first create an "Empty Mix (coupled systems)" because you are already supplying your system via KH, Calcium, and Magnesium or a 2-component solution with trace elements.

1. After clicking the element icon in the ICP, click on "Create Mix" and follow these steps:
   • 1.1 Then click on "Empty Mix (coupled systems)".
   • 1.2 And finally click on "Configure".
2. Here you now enter the number of weeks this mix should last, as well as the daily dosage of the anion and cation mixes.
3. Depending on your level of experience, proceed as follows:
   • For beginners: If you do not know any trace element consumption, simply create empty anion and cation mixes. Fill them with 100% RO/DI water and dose them from now on in addition to your existing supply system (KH, Calcium & Magnesium).
   • For advanced users: If you already know a rough consumption of certain trace elements, you can enter it here.

Later: Automatic Adjustment

This empty mix will then be taken as a basis after the next ICP analysis and automatically filled with certain trace elements depending on consumption (see Step 5: "Algorithmic Analysis").

Now it's time to enter your second ICP. To do this, click the icon for adding an ICP in the top right and enter your measured values.

Attention, units!
Make sure you use the correct units here. Many manufacturers, for example, do not specify iodine in µg/L, but in mg/L. You must then multiply this value by 1000.

Example: Iodine 0.067 mg/L = 67 µg/L

Tip for advanced users: You could enter a past ICP as the first ICP (as well as an empty mix or your trace elements (see previous step)) and a current ICP as the second. If you have created the ICP elements (see step 2), you can then use the algorithmic analysis (see next step) for the mixes of the second ICP to calculate the appropriate mixtures.

Now click the element icon in the new ICP. The old mixture in the previous ICP will now be automatically recognized. You will be prompted to select the method for creating the new mixture.

1. Select "Algorithmic Calculation".
2. In the following dialog, click "Automatic Adjustment".

Now the magic happens! The algorithms process the consumption or accumulation, detect deviations, and precisely calculate the necessary dosing changes based on the individual dosing factors of each element.

Now select for how many weeks the new mixture should last. Read all the help icons on this page to understand what is happening and to be able to check the values for plausibility.

Manual Adjustments (Important!):

3. At the end of the analysis, you will see a table showing which elements you should manually raise and what amount you need to add. Manually raising the levels and adjusting the entered ICP accordingly improves the function of the algorithm.
   • Take a screenshot of this table.
4. Then click "Create Mixes".
5. Once you have manually adjusted the values in the aquarium, go to the edit icon of the last ICP and drag the respective values to the target values (click on the arrow).

This not only quickly corrects deficits, but the algorithm can also work much more accurately and approach a stable equilibrium faster.

6. Mix the specified amounts of anion and cation in 2 containers and fill them with RO/DI water up to the amount calculated from the number of weeks and daily dosage.
7. Set your dosing system to the corresponding amount of daily dosage for both channels.

In the further course, you will regularly add new ICPs (Steps 4 and 5). The crucial point for long-term stability is now the optimization of the dosing factors for your individual tank. For a detailed explanation, look in the ICP Elements section, where you can also configure them.

Examples for adjusting dosing factors:

• Value overshoots the target:
  The value was overcorrected (e.g., iodine was too low, but is now far too high).
  -> Dosing factor is too high and must be reduced.
• Trend continues:
  The value is not sufficiently corrected (e.g., iodine was too low and hardly increases after the adjustment).
  -> Dosing factor is too low and must be increased.