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Title.. my gut is telling me dosing should be done at night with the moonlight on.
Then again im a moron.
Two hours? I turn mine off for one hour and dose twice a day via doser (3pm and 3am)...should I dose closer to sunset based on what you are say? (17.8ml daily)per RedSeaKev: Kevin Davies
Dose about 1 hour before lights out.
Right before the dose turn off your protein skimmer for two hours.
Doing it that way gives your daylight species and your lights out species some time to feed.
and... your not a moron.
Two hours? I turn mine off for one hour and dose twice a day via doser (3pm and 3am)...should I dose closer to sunset based on what you are say? (17.8ml daily)
Yes I do have full automation...Once ina while I might add some hand dose (during the 3pm hour if I am home)...but other than that everything is fully automated (ALK, MAG, CAL and AB+)I hand dose to what RedSeaKev recommends, including skimmer turn off time, but you have full automation... ;Woot ;Woot
Did you continue to test this theory?So I actually have been thinking about this topic a lot. It was more an off the cuff test, but I have mine fully controlled with apex and I was dosing for one week, once a day, an hour before lights out and repeated the same the following week for one dose right around midday at 1 pm. I noticed that during the week I did it at mid-day, my Alk consumption was up around 10-15% with all parameters more or less in line.
My current run, is splitting the dose into 3 times a day in morning, afternoon, and evening to see what it does to Alk consumption. I wonder if anyone has ever done a full test before I go and actually try and design one with controlled parameters.