There are a few benefits I see for separating the dosing evenly throughout the day:
1) for things like Ca, MG, dkH you want to keep your parameters as stable as possible to reduce stress on the corals. In my case, I am dosing more than 20ppm Ca/day and more than 1 dkH/day, so one blast of Ca or dKh per day is a pretty big swing.
2) If your power goes out the clock on the marine magic brand of doser resets to midnight. Depending upon your dosing schedule you are vulnerable to over/under dosing if you don't remember to reset it by the time your single dose should have/accidentally did happen. You could avoid this by setting your dose schedule to 23:00 for the one dose, at which point you would perhaps under dose by a bit for the one day. I do this for my Trace and Food supplements that I want to dose only 1/day (more on this in point 3).
3) You wont cause larger swings in parameters locally in your dosing area, which can cause precipitation of your supplements and stress on your sump inhabitants (this specifically refers to major elements). A note on this one... my third channel is set up for my trace elements and foods which I dose directly into my tank. Nothing in this channel in my ingredients reacts with anything to precipitate out, and it is my opinion that the the coral uptake mechanism for trace and minor elements is better served with larger pulses of concentrations rather than chronic lower levels.
Dan
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02-20-2012, 04:01 PM
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