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View BadgesBump! Plan to do this on my new office 20 cube! This video is a must watch and does mention this method.
Actually that is a great video. I didn't see it before so thank you for sharing it. Really great.
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Bump! Plan to do this on my new office 20 cube! This video is a must watch and does mention this method.
Bump! Plan to do this on my new office 20 cube! This video is a must watch and does mention this method.
I did. I put the carbocalcium in heated water and hand mixed for an hr, before getting tired and adding the other 3. I ended up adding another 1000ml of rodi and it fully desolved so i may end up having to dose at a higher ml level then the recommended.Maybe try dissolving each thing individually then mixing it together?
Did you know you could make your own Tropic Marin All-For-Reef....cheaper than the premixed solutions??
@Zack@BRS put together the list of ingredients and demonstrates how to mix your own All-For-Reef for a fraction of the cost and the BEST part is that it's scaleable! Make a little or make a LOT, you can choose how much you need for your own tank needs!
Can you please verify the measurements? A cording to the carbo calcium 3bls container 6 level scoops of the included spoon equal 140grams of carbocalcium. That did not desolve in heated 750ml of water. The container of water in the vid looks like more then 750ml.
I was wondering about this also, as to why the max dosage is there with the all for reef. I was thinking it may have to do with the trace elenents, and possible overdising them.I'm excited about this possibility of making DIY All-For-Reef recipe. I've been using BRS two-part with Red Sea Trace Colors for about 2 years, and my ICP testing is spot on. The idea of using only 1 dosing head for everything would really be a big winner over what I'm currently doing, and would free up additional DOS heads for me to dose other things.
I am currently dosing 75mL (each) of BRS Soda Ash and Calcium Carbonate on my 55 gallon water volume per day, which corresponds to a 1.9dkh utilization per day.
The Tropic Marin All-For-Reef dosing calculator shows that for 55 gallons of water volume, 10.41mL per day yields a 0.28dkh addition. Extrapolating this, it looks like I would need to dose 70.63mL per day of the All-For-Reef product to hit 1.9dkh of addition. 70.63mL exceeds (by a lot) what the Tropic Marin calculator lists for maximum dosage (52.04 ml max).
Does the All-For-Reef Alkalinity addition behave differently than soda ash (like is my calculation of 70mL off because of some non-linear relationship)? If not, I think I'm probably not going to be able to use All-For-Reef due to my tank demand is too high....
I dosed 50ml of my currently mixed diy all for reef, which im not 100% curtain is mixed correctly. If the measurements are right on the carbocalcium, then i have 2500ml of rodiI'm excited about this possibility of making DIY All-For-Reef recipe. I've been using BRS two-part with Red Sea Trace Colors for about 2 years, and my ICP testing is spot on. The idea of using only 1 dosing head for everything would really be a big winner over what I'm currently doing, and would free up additional DOS heads for me to dose other things.
I am currently dosing 75mL (each) of BRS Soda Ash and Calcium Carbonate on my 55 gallon water volume per day, which corresponds to a 1.9dkh utilization per day.
The Tropic Marin All-For-Reef dosing calculator shows that for 55 gallons of water volume, 10.41mL per day yields a 0.28dkh addition. Extrapolating this, it looks like I would need to dose 70.63mL per day of the All-For-Reef product to hit 1.9dkh of addition. 70.63mL exceeds (by a lot) what the Tropic Marin calculator lists for maximum dosage (52.04 ml max).
Does the All-For-Reef Alkalinity addition behave differently than soda ash (like is my calculation of 70mL off because of some non-linear relationship)? If not, I think I'm probably not going to be able to use All-For-Reef due to my tank demand is too high....
I was always under the impression the Trace A- and Trace K+ are two separate products to prevent the cation and anion elements from binding to one another in solution? What is preventing this from happening in this solution? I’m guessing there is some solution as All-for-reef accomplishes the same thing.
I'm excited about this possibility of making DIY All-For-Reef recipe. I've been using BRS two-part with Red Sea Trace Colors for about 2 years, and my ICP testing is spot on. The idea of using only 1 dosing head for everything would really be a big winner over what I'm currently doing, and would free up additional DOS heads for me to dose other things.
I am currently dosing 75mL (each) of BRS Soda Ash and Calcium Carbonate on my 55 gallon water volume per day, which corresponds to a 1.9dkh utilization per day.
The Tropic Marin All-For-Reef dosing calculator shows that for 55 gallons of water volume, 10.41mL per day yields a 0.28dkh addition. Extrapolating this, it looks like I would need to dose 70.63mL per day of the All-For-Reef product to hit 1.9dkh of addition. 70.63mL exceeds (by a lot) what the Tropic Marin calculator lists for maximum dosage (52.04 ml max).
Does the All-For-Reef Alkalinity addition behave differently than soda ash (like is my calculation of 70mL off because of some non-linear relationship)? If not, I think I'm probably not going to be able to use All-For-Reef due to my tank demand is too high....
Yes this would work also just the same as dosing carbocalcium and a/k separately.Going to try this in the next few weeks. Planning on 800ml RO for carbocalcium and leaving out the Mag as All-for-reef raised the Mag and being a bit on the high side I'll leave it out till it comes back down.
I think Lou mentioned on another thread that because Trace A- and Trace K+ are mixed with a large volume of RO(carbocalcium) the binding was not an issue.
Hopefully @Lou Ekus can help clarify. Also I had a question about an earlier all for reef as I was sure it said it only include Trace A- and I bought and dosed Trace K+. This is not an issue now as I'm about to move to this DIY solution.
Ok i need to pull out my scale and check, unless you dont mind verifying the scoop to scale accuracy. My mixture after 24 hrs had a 1/16th inch layer on the bottom of a large container. As i said i used a little return pump as a mixer.
I have been using Carbo-Calcium to dose alk and Ca for over a year now, but have been adding trace elements separately. I like the idea of a single solution. One thing that I thought of was if you could replace the the Bio-Mag and two element solutions with component C from the Balling method. This is supposedly Magnesium and trace elements. This would be very simple and much cheaper as well. I will need to do some reading and calculations to see if it can work.
Read a few topics on this, but I believe this might have been covered in the attached thread. In summary Part C is only used to to achieve ionic balance with the two part and not enough trace elements for the coral uptake. So A- and K+ are required instead of part C.
Any one doing Tropic Marin Balling system?
Not recommended. If you want to supplement trace elements use Tropic Marin Trace A and Trace K. Can the following be said... Trace A and K is better...If you want to add trace for anything other than when using TM balling A and B, ie because your using a carx or 2 part only delivering ca /...www.reef2reef.com