dosing

So I'm brand new to dosing and having a really hard time wrapping my brain around amounts and figuring out how much to dose in my tank. I'm using Red Sea Coral Foundation and on the back it tells me current levels and how much to dose to get to optimal levels, but I'm not sure if these values...

Hi guys, I might be getting a single head doser just because I don't want to go with a Jebao one as I've had one in the past that malfunctioned after a short while (around half a year) and don't want to spend top dollar on a high quality doser as my system is only 45Gal. I am unable to get...

Hello! So I have a 75 gallon aquarium set up. It has a few soft coral and a few LPS atm. My goal for my tank is for it to be a soft coral dominated with a hand full of lps here and there tank. I don't like the fact that If I want to start doing two part, that I will need to to do mandatory...

I've always wondered what manufactures really mean when they give dosing instructions based on "gallons." For example, Korallen-Zucht and Red Sea give dosing instructions for their additives in terms of X ml or X drops per 25 gallons. Gallons of what? Is it based on the rated tank size (my...

Good afternoon and thank you in advance for helping me. I have a relatively new tank (been up for about 8 mos), fairly well stocked mixed reef. Red Sea reefer 525 XL. Until recently i have not had to dose. Continuous water changes were maintaining my ca/alk/mg levels pretty well. When I started...

I know everybody wants to show their sexy reef tank, but what do most of your workstations look like, and where do you keep it located? Mine is a custom stand, to house my ATO and water changes. I like to have an actual bench and keep my stuff accessible since I'm running a nano. Ma

Hi all, I was wondering how much alkalinity swing over time is considered "stable". I know Alk may drift with the daily light cycle, but I'm specifically curious about variability over days or weeks. I started using a dosing pump and 2-part about 4 months ago and have been working on getting...

I've been wanting to dose silicates in my reef tank and read Randy Holme-Farley's article about silicate dosing. I know that it mentions you can buy water glass solution to dose silicates, but I was wondering if I could purchase this hydrous sodium silicate powder I found online to dissolve in...

I just bought $200 worth of Brightwell aquatic supplements like Reef code A, Reef code B, iodine, magnesium, strontion, replenish, coral amino, reef snow, etc. and I’ve started dosing for about a week now and was wondering what you mainly use to dose your tank or if anyone has had success with...

In my 120 gallon I have 32 Acro frags (3 about yr old mini colonies now, and the rest new within the last 3 months), along with a couple montis, snails, and finally starting to see the start of some coraline algae growing on the glass. I picked up a DOS about 2 months ago and switched over to...

Hi everyone hope you’re doing well. So today I tested my water for the first time and here are my numbers Calcium: 350 Alkalinity: 7 Ph: 7.8 I have brightwell aquatics calcium, alkalinity and ph ready to be used. I’ve been doing some research on dosing but it’s hard to wrap your head around...

I currently have a 60g, 29g and 10 gallon mixed reefs set up and I’ve never dosed anything to the corals. Any opinions on if or what I should dose? I feed them reef rounds twice a week and dose alk and calcium. Thanks.

I have an Apex controller with a new Trident that I just got set up. My intention is to add a dosing system using the Bulk Reef Supply (BRS) 2 Part Doser Pumps. I'm pretty sure that I know how to program an outlet on the Apex to schedule the pump to turn on based on a time parameter (e.g. run...

Im researching a new tank and looking into a controller that can - have a feed mode, matinance mode and power outage mode at the press of a button or ideally from my phone (iPhone 8) - moniter pH, salinity and temperature - turn off various hardware remotely - automatically top up the tank -...

Hi everyone! I have been battling a mild Dino outbreak and part of my plan of action is no water changes. My alk has dropped to 6DKH and my Cal to 360ppm it used to be 8DKH and 420ppm. This Alk and Cal consumption happened over the span of 20 days so it wasn’t a fast change. My PH was at 8.2...

Just got a new custom-made dosing container. I cannot wait to share it with you guys. I have been reefing for 5 years, growing SPS primarily using dosing system for major traces. I have done a pretty good job in organizing cables and controllers, then I realized a good-looking dosing container...

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Hey guys was cleaning the fish room and I get some stuff to get rid of, Apex unit, not sure where the face is, I connected it to 192.168.0.50:80 and can access fusion, it also comes with two probes(and magnetic probe holder). Shoot me an 200obo on that cause I’m not sure of a price without the...

Hi all, I'm now using a D-D P4 Pro dosing pump and which give great control over chemical anti-interference, split dosing over a schedule etc. and its got me researching for answers to a couple of questions... For each of my Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium, NoPoX ... Recommended times of day to...

Instead of paying $13 for each tube from BRS, I went with DIY described here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/brs-1-1-ml-diy-tubing-replacement.296623/ I bought a 50' roll and would never go through this much tubing alone, so I figure offer some up to others that don't want to buy this much...

Hey All, I have a 2.5 month old 20 gallon IM Nuvo AIO. You can see more about the build in my build thread: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/no-lobsters-allowed-20-gal-reef.653171/ I'm using Instant Ocean Reef Crystals and have been testing my Calcium, Alk, and Mg regularly the past few weeks...

Howdy everyone, my love just got me the new apex system and a new trident :)!! So i'm selling my kh director I purchased Jan 16'th of last year so still under warranty. Everything works great, includes Kh director, Stand alone GHL doser all cables and half a bottle of 1000ml reagent. 600...

First, I Would love to # Terrance and crew to thank them but can’t find them I know we’ve all have gotten alarms on our tanks for something going wrong but this has no alarm, at least none that I have. Jumping right in, I generally test my Alk about every 2-3 days unless I’ve mixed new...

Hi all! I like to support my LFS in anyway I can. One way is I purchase the salt they use. I’ve tested it’s Alkalinity and it’s bad. Not sure if it’s the batch because the salt seemed to have got moisture in it because it was hard but it did soften quickly when dropped on the floor like you...

Yeah the title sums it up. Phosphate was 0.7 so I used GFO and nopox to get it down to zero. Got dino, let the tank dirty out for months fed food, skimmer offline. Dino went away and now I have 25 nitrate and zero phosphate. Luckily I only have a couple of softies in the tank so nothing too...