to those dosing...

[Myka]

You guys' dosing sounds really complicated.

I have dosers that dose 3x a day each, and I test once a week. Manually dose once a week if needed after testing, and if I have to manually dose two weeks in a row I will increase the doser by a few minutes. If something is too high I will unplug that doser to skip a dose or two.

Before I got dosers I would manually dose calcium in the morning and alkalinity at night using equal parts. Once a week I would test, and add whatever was needed to balance out. If something was too high I would skip dosing that one for the next day or two.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Myka

You guys' dosing sounds really complicated.

I have dosers that dose 3x a day each, and I test once a week. Manually dose once a week if needed after testing, and if I have to manually dose two weeks in a row I will increase the doser by a few minutes. If something is too high I will unplug that doser to skip a dose or two.

Before I got dosers I would manually dose calcium in the morning and alkalinity at night using equal parts. Once a week I would test, and add whatever was needed to balance out. If something was too high I would skip dosing that one for the next day or two.

I'm not following you Myka. Why is ours complicated? I basically do exactly the same as you. Dosers on timers and check levels once a week. Top up manually if required.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by Lance

I'm not following you Myka. Why is ours complicated? I basically do exactly the same as you. Dosers on timers and check levels once a week. Top up manually if required.

Maybe Tony just used too many words.

[mark]

seems setting up is pretty much like the reactor, get the Ca and Alk where you want them use either system just to maintain the levels. Little adjusting at the start to match consumption rate, it's just a little tweaking to keep up with changes in growth.

[lastlight]

Do the same as everyone else. I was usually finding due to growth that things dipped a bit between my testing so now if my numbers are ok I actually bump both alk and calcium up a little to account for growth increases between then and the next test.

[spawn]

I'm running the GHL & happy with it, but surprised how once introduced, the corals demand very quickly increased to the point where I'm dosing 2 ml per gal.of brs recipe 1 in about 55 gal of water just to maintain 120 ml Ca & 110 ml alk are added daily. The amounts are different because I switch from salt to salt weekly for water changes causing a higher average alk addition than Ca addition, & When I get into my big build I may look at a reactor though to see if there is even less work & if it maybe cheaper in the long run.

[fishytime]

ya you kinda need to be a mad scientist for a couple weeks while you get things dialed in, but then after that its just routine checking from time to time to see if all is still well......

Originally Posted by spawn

I'm running the GHL & happy with it, but surprised how once introduced, the corals demand very quickly increased to the point where I'm dosing 2 ml per gal.of brs recipe 1 in about 55 gal of water just to maintain 120 ml Ca & 110 ml alk are added daily.

chugalug chugalug chugalug......happy corals are needy corals........I was going through a gallon of each of Ca and DKH (Randy"s recipe) in about three days.......now there were some thirsty corals

[spawn]

Thanks for chiming in Doug. I was kinda wondering what a tank like yours in it's first glory was taking on a ml per gallon ratio? & by the way you wrote "Couples Weeks" kinda insinuates you my be away on an upcoming vacation.???

Originally Posted by fishytime

ya you kinda need to be a mad scientist for a couples weeks while you get things dialed in, but then after that its just routine checking from time to time to see if all is still well......







chugalug chugalug chugalug......happy corals are needy corals........I was going through a gallon of each of Ca and DKH (Randy"s recipe) in about three days.......now there were some thirsty corals

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by spawn

by the way you wrote "Couples Weeks" kinda insinuates you my be away on an upcoming vacation.???

couples weeks????.....hedonism here we come.....pack your bags baby!!!!

[e46er]

Originally Posted by fishytime

I was going through a gallon of each of Ca and DKH (Randy"s recipe) in about three days.......now there were some thirsty corals

his receipe has like 5300 DKH in the gallon if memory serves your tank was going through that much seriously???



anyways mine last about 35 days and i seem to always have about 150 ml of calcium left when the alk is empty dont know why the dosers are the same and timing the same and levels stay constant but it works