Dosing setups - pictures

[Delphinus]

Mine's even more simple and would be fair to call it ghetto. I use two aqualifter pumps ($15 each), ARM or carbon containers for the reservoirs (about 1 gallon volume), and then needle valves at the output for throttling down the driprate. Adjusting the right volume is a combination of how many minutes on the timers are plus opening up or closing down the drip valves. The timers run at 6 intervals of 2 minutes each, offset by 1.5 hours so that they don't drip at the same time.

[PoonTang]

Mine is exactly the same as Tony's but I only have 1 pump and i dose Kalkwasser and makeup water. I adjust my levels by varying the amount of Kalk I use. My resevoir is a old salt bucket. Mine is set to run for 5 minutes every 3 hours during the night.

[mark]

well the Aqualifters would definitely get me a feel for dosing.

What concentrations are you guys mix the solutions?

[Delphinus]

I just follow the Randy Holmes-Farley article recipes, so 2.25cups of Alk and 2.5 cups of Ca per gallon.

Mixing is a slight pain, I put half a gallon of RO/DI in the kettle and boil it then mix it all together in a big honking mixing bowl. Even with the warmer water I have to add the Alk part slowly otherwise it clumps up on me.

For Alk it's just baked baking soda from Costco, Ca is from Littlesilvermax. I get MB from LSM as well but don't bother with automated dosing for Mg, just do it by hand.

[Lance]

My setup is pretty much the same: Aqua Medic 3000 doser for alk and Aqua Lifter for calcium both run through an Aqua Controller Jr. (calcium dosed in the morning hours and alk in the afternoon) Magnesium manually. Salt buckets for reservoirs.

[fishytime]

GHL SA2 (stand alone).....set to auto (automatically alternates dosing time so the doses never overlap)....25 ml of both Calcium and DKH (Randy's recipe, #2 recipe for DKH)24 times/day.... manually dose Mg...... system is roughly 150g....considering adding a third pump to it to dose phyto





I couldnt be happier with this set up.....very easy to use and set up...

[BWI]

I find that the GHL dosers have been the easiest for me to setup. I have used a reactor in the past and it was the biggest pain ever.. i know there are a tun of people that use them and have no problems but i have a tun...dosers are the best way to go.. new technology