All for reef dosing

[jdpeters]

Im sure this has been asked all to heck but I have a 40 breeder that is consuming only about .1 dkh a day. At what point could I start dosing all for reef daily? I have about a 10 small sps frags and I’m starting to see signs of growth and coralline. My overall system volume is probably about 45 gallons but obviously my demand isn’t that high.

 

[Red_Beard]

You could start dosing now if you want. .1dkh isnt much, but it is a dosable amount. As your frags start to get bigger and bigger though you will need to dose more and more. Start at like 3 or 4 ml/day and see where you get from there, just remember it takes a day or so at first for it to start to metabolise into alk, so do it a week before deciding to adjust and go from there.

 

[jdpeters]

ok cool. I heard it takes 4 days to measure a difference with AFR, is that incorrect?

 

[rishma]

Each ~25ml (maybe 28 ml) will add about 1 dKH to your tank.

 

[rishma]

ok cool. I heard it takes 4 days to measure a difference with AFR, is that incorrect?

Not that long, first dose might take 24-48 hours. After that about 24 hours is plenty

 

[Red_Beard]

It can be, ya. With .1 per day consumption though 4 days will be fine.

 

[rishma]

It can be, ya. With .1 per day consumption though 4 days will be fine.

This a good point, super small changes are hard to reliably measure

 

[jdpeters]

Each ~25ml (maybe 28 ml) will add about 1 dKH to your tank.

At 40 gallons roughly?

It can be, ya. With .1 per day consumption though 4 days will be fine.

i suppose at 3 or 4 ml to start can’t hurt. I will just test daily and readjust. I have a dozen corals coming from WWC next week so hopefully i will be successful and see the demand go up

 

[Red_Beard]

At 40 gallons roughly?

i suppose at 3 or 4 ml to start can’t hurt. I will just test daily and readjust. I have a dozen corals coming from WWC next week so hopefully i will be successful and see the demand go up

Yes, that is the best way to get stability with dosing, is frequent testing. I would not recommend adjusting daily though. Keep a dose for a week, then adjust up or down and dose that for a week. It will take some time for you to get a good trend. This will also be helpful experience to have for when your new frags come in and get settled. You will see consumption start to go up after a few weeks, and you will have to adjust up fairly regularly. In the 5 months since adding a dozen sticks in my 75, i have gone from dosing 28ml/day to 43ml/day, and it is still increasing.

 

[rishma]

At 40 gallons roughly?

Yes

 

[jdpeters]

Yes, that is the best way to get stability with dosing, is frequent testing. I would not recommend adjusting daily though. Keep a dose for a week, then adjust up or down and dose that for a week. It will take some time for you to get a good trend. This will also be helpful experience to have for when your new frags come in and get settled. You will see consumption start to go up after a few weeks, and you will have to adjust up fairly regularly. In the 5 months since adding a dozen sticks in my 75, i have gone from dosing 28ml/day to 43ml/day, and it is still increasing.

Cool thank you this has been helpful.

Yes

thank you