Hi I have a 12g nano tank, just wonder how fast I can dose Calcium, Alkalinity and Magnesium in one hit?
Can I dose 100 ppm in an hour? Or should it be spread out?
Can I dose 100 ppm in an hour? Or should it be spread out?
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What do you recommend?100 ppm in one hour is wild
It depends on which element I believe magnesium is fine if you do 100ppm for a day. But alk shouldn’t be more than 1 dkh a day. Not sure about calc. The slower your dose the betterHi I have a 12g nano tank, just wonder how fast I can dose Calcium, Alkalinity and Magnesium in one hit?
Can I dose 100 ppm in an hour? Or should it be spread out?
You can if you have empty tank.Can I dose 100 ppm in an hour? Or should it be spread out?
How fast do you dose with corals?You can if you have empty tank.
If you have corals rapid changes in water chemistry will shock / kill them. Even when going from bad situation to good situation change should be done slowly. The change should be done in the realm of days/ weeks not minutes or hours.
Reason for this is that corals want to be in equilibrium with the surrounding and this equilibrium takes time to achieve. Rapid increases or decreases are detrimental. Constant rapid swings are also detrimental.
If you have a new tank and your Alk, Calc and Mg are low, most likely your salinity is low.
Good luck,
There is no universal dose, each tank is unique.How fast do you dose with corals?
How fast do you dose with corals?
Let's get off the ambiguous fastness question and find out what you think you want to dose in total, and why.
That way we can give useful advice.
My Magnesium is sitting at 1145ppm and I want to bring it up to 1280ppm.
I'm using QUANTUM Aragonite Enhancers, Aragonite C for MAG.
Dosing calculator said it will need 60mL
So let's now push on that since magnesium testing is super prone to error. So much so that I recommend many folks not even do it:
Just say NO to magnesium testing: RMM is born
OK, this thread has been many years in the making, and I'm posting it here since folks in the chem forum are probably already tired of all the threads relating to problematic magnesium testing. I'm going to propose a method, let's call it the Randy Magnesium Method, or RMM for short. All good...www.reef2reef.com
How are oyu meauring it?
What salt mix are you using and what is the salinity (measured how)?
Have you tried that kit on some new salt water?
Are you saying don't trust there test?What salt mix are you using?
I don’t recommend boosting magnesium by large amounts based on an unverified lfs test.
Read his link in post#12Are you saying don't trust there test?
Are you saying don't trust there test?
I buy my salt water from the lfs also so I assume it's mixed correctlyTests are more often wrong than a salt mix would be off by enough to give calcium at 576 ppm and magnesium at 1145 ppm.
What salt mix are you using?
To arrive there from most any commercial salt mix at sg = 1.026 requires a lot of alkalinity and calcium dosed over an extended period, slowly dropping magnesium by maybe 1 ppm per day. Assuming you did not do that, I expect error in the magnesium measurement.