Dosing for all question

[Sophie"s mom]

Good morning everyone! So I have a question. My doser for alkalinity ALWAYS leaves a build up of some sort of residue at the end of the tube where it goes into the water. So 1) what is that residue? 2) is there a way to stop this from happening? & 3) is this potentially leaving something behind that really should be going into the water? All my corals seem happy and are growing, it’s just a concern.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

What it is depends, of course, on what product you are dosing, but it is very likely just dried additive. With kalkwasswer it is different, and may be reacting with CO2 in the air to form insoluble calcium carbonate.

Many folks, including me, run ATO water into the same tubing to flush it out.

I show how I did that here:

Dose tip clog prevention

Folks often have dose tips that get clogged with dried material. I’m currently dosing AFR and here is how I prevent it. Referring to the picture below, I send one tube with AFR and one tube with ATO ro/di water into a hard plastic tubing section of an old device of some sort. It’s green in...

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[Sophie"s mom]

What it is depends, of course, on what product you are dosing, but it is very likely just dried additive. With kalkwasswer it is different, and may be reacting with CO2 in the air to form insoluble calcium carbonate.

Many folks, including me, run ATO water into the same tubing to flush it out.

I show how I did that here:

Dose tip clog prevention

Folks often have dose tips that get clogged with dried material. I’m currently dosing AFR and here is how I prevent it. Referring to the picture below, I send one tube with AFR and one tube with ATO ro/di water into a hard plastic tubing section of an old device of some sort. It’s green in...

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Thank you Randy! What a great idea! For the record, I currently use Sea Chem Fusion for alkalinity as well as calcium.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Seachem Reef Fusion alk part is mostly sodium carbonate, and that would be what is drying onto the drip end.

Note that despite the claim by Seachem, this product is not properly designed for 1:1 dosing. As the google search AI states (perhaps correctly lol) it may have been specifically designed for that, but Seachem did not design it correctly. lol

Contrary to some assertions, Seachem Reef Fusion 1 and 2 are specifically designed to be used together in a 1:1 ratio to maintain calcium and alkalinity simultaneously.

I show exactly how and why it is not designed properly here:

Seachem Reef Fusion is not properly alk/calcium balanced for 1:1 dosing

A recent thread in the chemistry forum from someone who found that calcium increased with this product while maintaining alkalinity and using 1:1 dosing as advised by Seachem provoked me to check it's manufacturer specifications to see if it was a balanced additive. From Seachem's claims about...

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[Sophie"s mom]

Seachem Reef Fusion alk part is mostly sodium carbonate, and that would be what is drying onto the drip end.

Note that despite the claim by Seachem, this product is not properly designed for 1:1 dosing. As the google search AI states (perhaps correctly lol) it may have been specifically designed for that, but Seachem did not design it correctly. lol

Contrary to some assertions, Seachem Reef Fusion 1 and 2 are specifically designed to be used together in a 1:1 ratio to maintain calcium and alkalinity simultaneously.

I show exactly how and why it is not designed properly here:

Seachem Reef Fusion is not properly alk/calcium balanced for 1:1 dosing

A recent thread in the chemistry forum from someone who found that calcium increased with this product while maintaining alkalinity and using 1:1 dosing as advised by Seachem provoked me to check it's manufacturer specifications to see if it was a balanced additive. From Seachem's claims about...

www.reef2reef.com

Yeah, it most definitely is not 1:1! That produced WAY TOO MUCH calcium. It took me a bit to get them dialed in