How much All for Reef are you dosing?

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Higher alk can give faster hard coral growth in some cases.

 

[gbroadbridge]

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?

I'm dosing 28ml a day in a 10 gal Nano SPS heavy.
That keeps Alk stable at 8 dkH and Ca around 550 or so.

So' I'd not stress about 55ml in 100gal :-)

 

[fishface NJ]

34 mL on a 40g SPS dominant tank

7.0 alk
400 cal
1320 mg

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

about 15mL daily in a 65 gallon tank. Young but mixed reef. Coralline is starting to up the demand. Only have a few sps. Alk stays at 8.2-8.5

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

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?

good question- just have to dose once.

 

[Red_Beard]

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

To avoid any spikes of any kind. Calcium, trace etc. Also to keep o2 saturation higher, as the alk conversion process consumes o2.

 

[805reeftank]

50gal SPS dominate mixed tank. Dose 50mls 30 mins before lights come on.

Alk 7.5-8 depending when I test
Cal 440
Mag 1350

 

[moorea reef]

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.

I use more than double, 100 gal system 120 a day mixed reef

 

[56longroof]

I dose 35 ml in my 150 gallon with full saturated kalk in my ATO. My alk is always 9.0-9.3 and calcium stays 420-450.

 

[reefpanda]

13ml in a 40 gal mixed reef, alk at 8. Single dose in the morning