Reef aquarium chemistry · Batch 001 tested by Reef Labs and published
Nothing in your tank should die to a guess.
Mail off a water sample. A lab measures 45 elements. You get exact doses for your tank.
Phosphate 0.581 → 0.150 mg/l · one client reef, two Triton panels · see them →
First, the reading.
ICP DECODE
The lab gives you numbers.
BioForge gives you the plan.
Submit your ICP results. Get an 11-section action plan, critical issues flagged first, correction order ranked by risk, dosing math calculated for your tank size, 7-day and 30-day plan included. The report shown is a real decode from a real tank.
Emailed within minutes · full refund if it’s not useful
Not a chatbot subscription · one deep read of your lab data
See a real decode · March 2026
"Aluminum at 0.235 ppm, 11.75× above the safe upper limit. One priority. Everything else waits."
"Stop GFO immediately. 20% water change today. Do not resume phosphate media until retest confirms clear."
"Potassium at 364 ppm, deficient. Raise slowly, no more than 5 ppm per day. Ca, Mg, Alk all holding well. Retest in 30 days."
Then, the chemistry
We don't ship water.
CORE+ · DRY-TO-MIX
The chemistry was never the bottle.
Core+ ships as dry reagent. You supply the water. The same ions your reef consumes, at a fraction of the shipped mass, mixed fresh into your own RO/DI on your own schedule.
ALKALINITY · CALCIUM · MAGNESIUM
THE COMPARISON
PRE-MIXED LIQUID 2-PART
- WHAT SHIPS
- Jugs of solution, mostly RO/DI water
- MONTHLY COST
- $40–70 at typical 50-gal consumption
- VERIFICATION
- Trust the label
BIOFORGE CORE+
- WHAT SHIPS
- Dry reagent, zero water
- MONTHLY COST
- ~$21 at 50 gal
- VERIFICATION
- Per-batch ICP-OES, published
Same target chemistry. You stop paying to ship the water.
THE RHYTHM
The chemistry that stops demanding your attention.
Week one. A packet, a beaker, a bottle. Five minutes.
A year in. Testing has become verification, not troubleshooting. You're back to watching corals.
THE BIOFORGE LOOP
Chemistry that remembers your tank.
Test anywhere · Decode writes your plan · Core+ ships it pre-measured
How the loop works
BioForge isn't just what you dose. It's how you know what to dose, when to correct, and when to stop, then what happened last time, so next time takes less guessing. We call it the BioForge Loop: test anywhere, Decode writes your plan, Core+ ships it pre-measured. Every turn of the loop retires one more guess.
WHERE TO START
Before you dose anything, know what’s actually wrong. Start from the symptom:
“Alk keeps drifting.”
Your consumption changed. Size the dose to what the tank actually uses. Calculator →
“Something’s dying and I don’t know why.”
Don’t panic dose. An ICP test plus Decode finds the one thing to fix first. Decode →
“Numbers look fine, corals aren’t happy.”
Routine tests don’t show everything. ICP exposes trace imbalances and contaminants home kits can’t see. Decode →
“Just got my ICP results back.”
Turn the numbers into a ranked correction plan in minutes. Decode →
“One parameter keeps misbehaving.”
Ten free step-by-step fault trees isolate the cause before you dose anything. Fault Manual →
THE STARTER KIT
BIOFORGE CORE+ · COMPLETE STARTER
Everything to start. $69.
Everything you need to start dosing, chemistry, mixing system, and documentation. Refill packets available separately after your kit arrives, sized to your calculator-driven dose. Measured, not guessed.
- 01 3× Core+ dry-mix stock packets, each makes 1L. Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium
- 02 3× reusable mixing bottles, 1L beaker, precision dosing adapter
- 03 QR-coded batch verification on every packet
- 04 Your first Decode ($39 value) included. No ICP test needed to begin; the calculator sizes your dose from your tank volume and measured consumption
- 05 Refills sized to your calculator-driven dose. It tells you when you're running low; subscription ships before you run out.
~$21/mo in refills vs. $40–70/mo for pre-mixed liquid 2-part at typical consumption. Run your tank’s actual numbers in the calculator.
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THE PROOF
BATCH 001 · ON THE RECORD
Most brands make claims. We publish the receipts.
Every production batch goes to Reef Labs for independent ICP-OES analysis, the same elemental standard used in pharmaceutical QC, and every report is linked here, publicly, before you buy. ICP-OES verification is of BioForge batch chemistry, not your tank water.
LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVE
ALK-260508-A REPORT PUBLISHED · BATCH ACCEPTED CAL-260508-A REPORT PUBLISHED · BATCH ACCEPTED MAG-260508-A REPORT PUBLISHED · BATCH ACCEPTEDEvery ID above opens the lab’s own report. Not our PDF. Theirs.
THE FOUNDER
Built by someone who weighs everything.
By trade I work on aircraft. ISO 17025, calibrated balances, chain-of-custody documentation. When I started formulating reef chemistry, I brought the same standard. Every batch is weighed, verified, and published, because that's how I work on everything.
Carlos Mendiluze, Founder · Hialeah, FL
Aircraft systems technician · ISO 17025 trained · reef keeper
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