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So @East1 has given me an inspiration for a tank I can actually do right now, so I've bought it. (build thread will happen once I have a location in the house settled and actually break out the tank!). I'm not going to start with any SPS immediately, but I do hope maybe after a few months to have a tenuis, a Red Planet hyacinthus, and then maybe an A. millepora in a fairly small package and let those colonies grow out.
I've got one question for experienced SPS keepers: it seems that alkalinity consumption is not linear? That is, if I have those three acros, when I first add them, I will have x amount of daily consumption, and that will increase as they get bigger and bigger? And that if they stop growing for whatever reason (e.g. conditions stop being so good) consumption will stop?
Thus, if you're dosing, once you have a routine set up (in my case, I'm thiking of dosing in hourly-to-four-hourly increments) you should check your alkalinity at least weekly (probably more in a dense acro collection), if not more. And that your dosing should be adjusted based on actual consumption? It seems this has potential for alk instability (if you're consuming 1kh of alk a day, if it suddenly goes in half, then by the time you detect this you're theoretically raised the alk 1.5kh if you do this every three days), even if your measurements are always accurate (to say nothing of if you have a stray measurement).
What works for you to implement this? (one obvious possibility is the Trident, GHL KH director, etc...... matched with automatic dosing)
I've got one question for experienced SPS keepers: it seems that alkalinity consumption is not linear? That is, if I have those three acros, when I first add them, I will have x amount of daily consumption, and that will increase as they get bigger and bigger? And that if they stop growing for whatever reason (e.g. conditions stop being so good) consumption will stop?
Thus, if you're dosing, once you have a routine set up (in my case, I'm thiking of dosing in hourly-to-four-hourly increments) you should check your alkalinity at least weekly (probably more in a dense acro collection), if not more. And that your dosing should be adjusted based on actual consumption? It seems this has potential for alk instability (if you're consuming 1kh of alk a day, if it suddenly goes in half, then by the time you detect this you're theoretically raised the alk 1.5kh if you do this every three days), even if your measurements are always accurate (to say nothing of if you have a stray measurement).
What works for you to implement this? (one obvious possibility is the Trident, GHL KH director, etc...... matched with automatic dosing)