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Hi folks: long story short but after Hurricane Irma I have been dosing calcium but not alkalinity. I checked my 2-part dosing with Apex immediately after the storm, and all seemed fine on the Fusion console. Unfortunately, I forgot to prime the DOS after that major loss of power, so the pump...

Hey guys, Starting to add some different corals to my tank. Currently have a hammer colony, zoa, birds nest, a candy cane, and 3 types on montipora. I got my first Hanna checker the other day. Tested the Calcium and it was at 261. I'm using Red Sea Coral Pro salt. Got me wondering what the...

When you start to think that you are doing the things right in this hobby, there's always a new thing that tells you that you're wrong. That's my case with KH and CA dosing. I have been dosing BRS two-part to my reef tank for about 5-6 months. Was a little hard to find the point and maintain my...

I have a 180 gallon mixed reef with mostly SPS. Lit by LED and flow by two Tunze 6105 powerheads and a Waveline DC-6000 return pump. My current params are 8 dKH Alk, 420 Ca, 1250 Mg, .10 P04, 5 NO3 I'd like to see if I can get more growth and color from my SPS. I also cant grow digitata...

Customize Your Sump with Somatic Start with an affordable sump/skimmer bundle then add on precision-fit accessories like dosing containers, a probe holder, and an ATO reservoir to improve the performance and capabilities of your filter system. Somatic's modular accessories can be added all at...

I just bought Triton supplement package and I am looking to see what people who are using the Triton method have found as their steady/stable dose. If you're using Triton, I'd like to know: 1) What dosage of the Triton supplements are you using? 2) Your total system volume 3) Your stocking...

Here is my problem. I need to supplement my magnesium daily to keep the level above 1200, even though the concentration of kH and Ca remain relatively stable. Each day I am adding 25 ml of liquid magnesium supplement. The many experienced reefers in my local club are stumped. 30 gallon JBJ...

My current tank is a 125g mixed SPS dominant...it's been running 3+ years and have had great growth and coloration, my sticks are thriving.....and I don't use a dosing pump....I use a kalk stirrer and manually check levels and add as needed. My issue is not with this tank, I am getting an IM...

My tank is now cycling with the red sea reef mature program. There is so much info on what people use to maintain Ca, Alk, and MG levels as well as what they dose in addition to the basics I.E amino acids, or the red sea color program. Im going to maintain my Ca, Alk , and MG levels with BRS 2...

Never used the test kit, bought 2 months ago. Used 2ml of each additive once. Test kit still has the wrappers as I only unboxed it. Went a different route so im selling. 55$ shipped.

Curious to see if anyone has photos of their progress with nutrient dosing. I see many threads of discussion of how to go about this but I have not seen too many discussions with photos of "improved coloration and growth" that many people claim. Please post your results. Thanks in advance!

My water parameters are as follow Alk 9 dkh (API) calcium 380 ppm (API) Nitrate 0 ppm (API) Nitrite 0 ppm (API) ph 8.3 (API) salinity 1.024 (refractometer) i did the salifert test twice now and have been getting 140 ppm as result i bout the reef foundation products from red sea and will be...

Anyone have one they are looking to sell? Thanks!

Like the title states, I decided to break down the recommended dosing instructions per brand to help me (and possibly others) when deciding on what supplements to use and dose (and how much if switching). Also Randy, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on any of this. I decided to do...

Hello all, I am deep into my 50 gal cube build and have throughly planned out every aspect but I am stuck on this one. I'm trying to come up with an idea or plan on what I want or need to dose. I know eventually calcium, mag, and alk will most likely need to be dosed but what I really...

Some background first: 1. I purchased a used RS 170 Aquarium for a really good price (Good!) April 28th system start date, however the system has been running since November, cycled. 2. It came with the following livestock (good and bad) Yellow Tang Kole Tang Scooter Dragonet...

I have a nuvo fusion 30L aquarium that I want to do a mixed reef with. I dont really want to mess with kalk unless I have to. However, I am having a hard time finding people with AIO tanks that use dosing pumps. And I have only seen one person use a calcium reactor for a AIO. Any advice on how...

I'm sure a lot of people are already aware of this but I figured I post it again in case someone might have missed it. I had been using the BRS 1.1ml dosers for about three years now. When I first set them up I checked the accuracy of them to set up the programming through the Apex. Both of...

Let's be honest, we are not doing full time on this hobby so time is of the essence and each of us has our own preferred parameters which we believe need to be checked quite regularly. As a hobbyists and enthusiasts, what do you test on regular basis? What do you emphasize on? Say I test Boron...

I decided to start the Red Sea coral colors program and need something that looked good inside of my stand.. so I came up with these classy looking dosing containers that only cost about $6 each to make. Dose classy my friends! Check out the build video

BLUF: What food can I feed via dosing pump? After a quick search around R2R with some keywords I couldn't find much on shelf stable food products for corals/inverts. Let me put this into context, though, of what I am trying to do. I recently switched from the KZ coral system (1-4) to the FM...

I am waiting on my new trigger acrylic sump to come in and was wondering if it's safe to dose vinegar into the sump? I will have it on a dosing pump delivering 30 ml over 8 hours. I have read where you can't store vinegar in acrylic but wasn't sure about dosing because it will be very diluted.

so I am getting more serious about my testing/dosing regime. I was using Ocean's Blend 2 part and I was reading about Randy's 2 different recipes and decided to by the BRS 2 part supplies because Randy mentioned in other posts that they use his recipe. I planned to use recipe 2 because I am...

i have a die off of my fish in my sps tank ( some due to agression, some due to lack of care when im gone on vacation and some just dead ) now over the period of 8 months i lost a few fishies and down to 2 fish in a 50 gallon system .. i dont want to add any more fish but clearly fish poop is...

I have heard thats its possible to dose Kalk based off your pH probe. To write some code saying if pH drops below some value then to dose Kalk from a separate container. Is this something that works. I currently dose 2 part but want to add some Kalk to boost pH to help battle some Dino. Any...