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Ive been dosing this for a few months now not according to ati's direction
They say that youre supposed to dose both equally but I feel like calcium and alk have different consumption rates?

At the moment I am dosing 12ml of part 2 (calc&mag) and 10ml (alk)

keeps my parameters at
calcium 440
mag 1450
alk 8-8.1

should I try dosing to there direction or just keep dosing towards my target range?
 

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I’ve used ATI for about 18 months and once my parameters where where I wanted them the dosing ended up being the same. I have a trident and would base any change over the course of a week.
 
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I tried dosing this at the recommended equal parts and its throwing my parameters off
I had my calcium 440 and alk 8.3
now today calcium is 380 and alk is 9.3

Im only dosing 12ml daily in a fairly packed 130g
 

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I had the same issue, was dosing different values for about a 6 month period. Eventually it worked out to 15ml of each non-diluted
 
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months later still the same issue, my calcium seems to be getting consumed a lot faster than my alk
was dosing 12ml cal and 10ml alk
I corrected my calcium and then lowered the alk dose
tested yesterday
calcium came out to 360
alk came out to 7.8 so this didnt drop too much

so idk not a fan of this ati dosing where equal is the recommended
 

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