Chloride, Sodium, Sulfur are the Reef Base Elements and yes these need to be managed also, they are the foundation., the stock in the soup.

Discuss Ionic balance – amounts and ratios are dependent on Salinity / Specific Gravity level. Assume 35ppt / 1.026 SG

• Chloride is on top at 19750, 1.81 times Sodium and 21.95 times Sulfur
• Sodium is next at 10900, .55 times chloride and 12.1 times Sulfur
• Sulfur is last at 900, .456 times Chloride and .826 times Sodium

Each is discussed in detail in the following menu options and pages.

Knowing this allows you to check and cross check this trio of Base Elements and maintain the ionic balance for everything else to work together correctly. The chemicals you select for dosing elements play a huge role in the influence of these three. This is due to the fact of what the carrier is for the end element you are dosing, these three are the main carrier salt byproducts for individual chemicals and can accumulate. They must be taken into consideration when selecting the chemicals you plan to use for ALL other elements currently and are planning on being dosed.

Discuss element dependencies and relationships to each other, when adding one need to add a complimentary element to work correctly.