Dosing Pump Hints and Tips

[DraggingTail]

I thought I would share this in case someone else has some use for this.

When I started automatic dosing, I set my Calcium, Alkalinity and Magnesium to dose twice a day at 8am and 8pm.

I found this was a mistake. I was getting precipitation in the bottom of my sump due to all three mixing at high levels and it took more of each to keep my levels up.

By staggering the time I was able to avoid precipitation and over time, from weekly testing, I was able to lower my dosage. Now only 1 goes in at a time each hour to avoid precipitation.

Does anyone else have any tips or tricks for automatic dosing pumps?

@ReefSquad

 

[Billldg]

Before I started to use Auto Dosing with a Trident, I always dosed Cal from 8 am to 7 pm and Alk from 9 pm to 6 am to keep that from happening. Plus, dosing Alk at night helped keep the PH up.