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Phil 08-09-2013 03:50 AM

What do u guys dose with your dosers?
 
Hey I'm about to pull the trigger on a new ghl sa 3 or 4 doser and I'm wondering what u guys are doseing? I'm primarily going to be doing alk and mag. And I don't really wanna mess around to much mixing batches up and am looking for stuff I can use that comes premixed.

kien 08-09-2013 04:00 AM

I have a 3 pump doser but have only ever used two. One for alk (sodium carbonate) and calcium. I have never dosed mag.

daplatapus 08-09-2013 04:13 AM

I used to dose Ca, Alk, and Mg, but since I added a Ca reactor I've just been dosing Mg

Seth81 08-09-2013 06:02 AM

I have 3 BRS dosers and dose Cal, Alk, and Mag. I use sealed old salt containers to store the mixes, so really I am only mixing up chemicals once ever two months.

Myka 08-09-2013 02:30 PM

My dosers only run calcium and alkalinity with the Fauna Marin Balling Light additives added to each. I add magnesium and potassium to my waterchange water as neither are used up fast enough to case a significant drop between waterchanges.

tobysmurf 08-09-2013 05:40 PM

calc and alk only for me.

htfn 08-09-2013 05:44 PM

I use Marine Magic triple doser and dosing Ca, Alk and Mg. Works great for my tank.

xenon 08-09-2013 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kien (Post 837011)
I have a 3 pump doser but have only ever used two. One for alk (sodium carbonate) and calcium. I have never dosed mag.

Why not dose mag?

Are you using a salt for water changes that is high in mag?

kien 08-09-2013 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xenon (Post 837136)
Why not dose mag?

Are you using a salt for water changes that is high in mag?

Well, high enough it seems. I use DD H2Ocean and Reef Crystals on rotation and the RC alone seems to have enough mag so long as I keep up with my water changes (every two weeks). My mag has traditionally not depleted fast enough to warrant dosing.

michika 08-09-2013 11:07 PM

Mg, Ca, dKH currently, and in the future I will probably be adding an amino acid, potassium, and maybe vodka. So far though I have two pumps allocated to Mg, and one to each Ca and dKH. The two pumps are soley relately to my tank size/volume and my unwillingness to stand and hand dose gallon after gallon to my system.


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