Hi everyone, my tank is approaching a year old now and has quite a full stock of LPS and soft corals along with 12 SPS frags now and almost everything is thriving. The tank seems to finally have some balance. I keep my alk around 8.0 and was hand dosing 7.5ml of bionic alk daily. I now see that my alk has dropped to 7.4 over the past few days so I will have to increase my dosing to around 15 to 20ml maybe or more. I guess the corals and coraline are consuming more alk now and probably calcium also although that number doesn't seem to be dropping.
I know I need to get my doser operational but until then is it ok to hand dose 20ml or more into my sump as a one time a day dosage? Does it need to be spread out in smaller doses? Is it common to have different amounts of alk and calcium to dose or should they always be the same?
My DT is 65g and 15g sump so 80g volume. What is a normal amount of dosing for a tank this size with a full stock of corals?
I know I need to get my doser operational but until then is it ok to hand dose 20ml or more into my sump as a one time a day dosage? Does it need to be spread out in smaller doses? Is it common to have different amounts of alk and calcium to dose or should they always be the same?
My DT is 65g and 15g sump so 80g volume. What is a normal amount of dosing for a tank this size with a full stock of corals?