Do you dose your tanks?

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I know a lot of people who have LPS and SPS in their tank and dose on a regular basis or have a automatic doser set up. I have tank a mixed reef tank and dose with trace elements on a weekly basis, and use reef crystals salt mix for water changes which is every 2 weeks. It's nothing super fancy or sophisticated but I prefer to manually dose my tank as I have had issues with an automatic doser in the past. I know a lot of people with coral tanks (mainly softies and LPS) that do not dose anything outside of doing regular water changes and everything in there is super happy. Do you dose your tank?

 

[CHSUB]

Do you dose your tank?

Not completely sure what you mean by dose but I use 2 part with trace elements, kalk, magnesium, fluoride, nickel, and v all on pumps and RS ab+ daily manually.

 

[exnisstech]

I suppose it boils down to what a tank needs, they're all different and have different needs. I have to dose to maintain alk and calcium because WCs can't keep up with consumption. I also have to dose ammonium in one tank for low nitrate and occasionally dose for low PO4

 

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Not completely sure what you mean by dose but I use 2 part with trace elements, kalk, magnesium, fluoride, nickel, and v all on pumps and RS ab+ daily manually.

For dosing I meant it more of a broad spectrum of supplementing any sort of additives to your tanks outside of water changes.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

For dosing I meant it more of a broad spectrum of supplementing any sort of additives to your tanks outside of water changes.

If you have any significant growing coralline or hard corals, those will likely deplete alk to the point where growth is slowed without dosing.

As to trace elements, I believe the foods add a lot more than do the usual water changes folks use.