How much All for Reef are you dosing?

[aaron186]

I swapped to all for reef from triton and have had good results. I have a 100 gal SPS dominant tank. I’m up to 55mL per day to keep my Alk at 8. It seems like a lot and was curious if this is typical with A4R. I’m doing DIY method with the individual components from TM to keep cost down (I also had some A and K before hand)

Also what time and over how long are you guys dosing?

 

[PharmrJohn]

None. I don't have a tank yet.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

None. I don't have a tank yet.

Lol

 

[PharmrJohn]

Lol

Yeah, you laugh...I'm DYING here! And NObody CARES!!! WAHHHH! Whew. OK. Under control......

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

That dose is less than 1 dKH per day so it’s not particularly large for an SPS tank.

 

[aaron186]

That dose is less than 1 dKH per day so it’s not particularly large for an SPS tank.

Ok great thank you. I’m going to need a larger dosing container soon. 2L isn’t cutting it

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Ok great thank you. I’m going to need a larger dosing container soon. 2L isn’t cutting it

Sounds good! :)

 

[exnisstech]

I'm dosing 27ml a day down from 30ml. I try to keep alk between 8-9 and cut back a little when it went over 9 dkh . I dose in 5 doses between 8am and noon. I was manually dosing and feel it works out just fine but I had a doser here and was starting to forget to dose so I installed the doser.

EDIT : roughly 60g volume.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I'm dosing 60 ml per day in a 40b.

 

[dedragon]

I dose around 24ml in a 50 gallon tank so 55ml in a 100 gallon seems about right to me

 

[dedragon]

I'm dosing 60 ml per day in a 40b.

lol that is soo much, considered adding kalkwasser or even a calcium reacotr to that system?

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

lol that is soo much, considered adding kalkwasser or even a calcium reacotr to that system?

Yeah I just recently increased it again from 54 to 60, my new years resolution is to research other, more cost effective dosing methods, AFR is super expensive where I live and I'm going through it too fast now.

 

[xWascallyWabbit]

I was dosing 25 ml per day in a 60 gal mixed reef. Did a fragging session and have lowered it to 18ml for now. Seems my birdnest coral was using a lot. Once cit down it reduced my consumption quite a bit.

 

[Luminous74]

"I dose 11 ml daily, split into 8 doses, in my 26.4-gallon LPS-dominated tank. This corresponds to approximately 0.6 dKH per day."

 

[xAndrewx]

I dose 50 ml a day split into 10 doses throughout the day. I also top off with roughly 1200 ml of kalk water a day. 30 gallon aquarium. 60% SPS, 35% LPS, 5% Soft corals. I try to keep Alk around 8.5

 

[Red_Beard]

30ml in a 75 every day. Keeping 8dkh.

 

[RedReefer]

30 ml daily in 100 gal total. Also run a kalk reactor. Five year old reef

 

[xWascallyWabbit]

Quick question for all...
Why are you splitting up the doses throughout the day?

I thought it was a single dose in the AM.

What are your reasonings?

 

[Troylee]

I top off with fully saturated kalk and dose 75ml a day in my tank. I keep my alk 10ish

 

[xWascallyWabbit]

I top off with fully saturated kalk and dose 75ml a day in my tank. I keep my alk 10ish

A lot of people keep their alk around 8ish. Why do you prefer 10?