Dosing newbie

[gregrock68]

Looking for some guidance on dosing. I have am in the process of setting up my 40 gallon AIO and anticipate building and growing a heavy sps and LPS tank. In 6 months to a year I imagine the consumption of the typicals, calcium, strontium, mag etc will increase. For those of you with dosing experience, do you think a dosing pump would be advisable? I know water changes will help, but I am thinking that a dosing pump will be needed to keep up with the consumables balanced. Assuming so, what dosing pump do you recommend? Seems like these pumps are hit and miss on performance and reliability

Thx in advance for the advice

 

[PopBot16]

I like the new Red Sea 4 head doing pump and app. Have not had any issues so far. Anyway, if you wanted, you could start with just dosing kalkwasswer (which can be dosed multiple ways) and see if that works for your alk/calc consumption, but if you go really stick-heavy you will likely need to do 2-part (which can be done alone or in addition to kalk). In terms of timing, start by calculating your consumption, and see if WCs keep up. If they don't keep up at some point, move to kalk and/or 2-part.

 

[kvansloo]

I used GHL stand alone for a long time with no problems. Then moved to GHL controller. You will likely not need one for a while if you are just starting the tank.

 

[gregrock68]

I used GHL stand alone for a long time with no problems. Then moved to GHL controller. You will likely not need one for a while if you are just starting the tank.

Thank you for responding, what is "GJL"?

 

[kvansloo]

Thank you for responding, what is "GJL"?

https://www.aquariumcomputer.com/usa/product-category/ghl-doser/ghl-doser-2-2/

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Looking for some guidance on dosing. I have am in the process of setting up my 40 gallon AIO and anticipate building and growing a heavy sps and LPS tank. In 6 months to a year I imagine the consumption of the typicals, calcium, strontium, mag etc will increase. For those of you with dosing experience, do you think a dosing pump would be advisable? I know water changes will help, but I am thinking that a dosing pump will be needed to keep up with the consumables balanced. Assuming so, what dosing pump do you recommend? Seems like these pumps are hit and miss on performance and reliability

Thx in advance for the advice

You can manually dose for a long Time on a new system.

 

[exnisstech]

I manually dose 2 part and AFR on 3 tanks

 

[Cichlid Dad]

I manually dose 2 part and AFR on 3 tanks

LOL! I'm the same, except I have a one head doser for my AFR.