Marine mix masters: How many dosing heads do you use on your reef?

[Peace River]

Marine mix masters: How many dosing heads do you use on your reef?

We add chemicals, aminos, liquid food, hydrated powdered food, and many other additives into our reef aquariums often with the use of dosing equipment. There are many dosers to choose from that provide a range of quality, automation, and replaceable parts. Some of these are even manufactured by equipment providers that make comparable equipment for laboratories and medical purposes. While some reef keepers dose liquid additives by hand often with the assistance of syringes, turkey basters, or by simply pouring the mixture into the tank, many reefers use automated dosers. If you have dosers connected to your system, how many dosing heads do you use on your reef?

Photo by @maramotreef; February 2024 Reef of the Month


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[Reefkeepers Archive]

Still manual dosing

 

[JayM]

Just one. I found myself forgetting the daily Ready 2Reef dose often enough to justify spending $100.

 

[Troylee]

2 is all I need.. all for reef and bacto balance.

 

[shakacuz]

1. ATO .

 

[14 foot reef]

More than 8, all DOS Neptune. Tank has been set up 25+ years, until I put Apex Trident full control on my reef, this system was always a losing battle. Ever since going head first Orange and Grey, the tank has never been better.

 

[Floyd-]

Single head for A4R and thats it on my tank.

 

[Devisissy]

I currently have 4 but I wonder with Moonshine if I'll need more for vacations and crap. I will be doing water changes though. Many moonshiner's don't so they have many many more chems to dose.

 

[Borat]

I hev 9 and 3 more is coming!

 

[Dburr1014]

AWC is 2 and ammonium is one and I guess the carx is one more to make 4 in total.

 

[Minifoot77]

I said other because I have some to put on my tank I just haven't yet and I'm still manual with 2 dosing hands

 

[Reefer Matt]

8 heads total for four of the five tanks. They are used for two part, top off, and All For Reef.

 

[mattdg]

2 Versa's Auto Water Change
2 Versa's Alk / Cal and Tropic Marin A-&K+ Trace for main reef system
2 BRS Doser Alk / Cal and Tropic Marin A-&K+ Trace for frag system
2 Drew's dosers Kalk plus 30 drops / gallon Isol8 MT for both systems. Dose about a gallon of this mixture / week

 

[Cichlid Dad]

One! Powdered All For Reef. Hand dose anything else

 

[Borat]

I hev 9 and 3 more is coming!

Neighbour Bob hev 11 so i need at least 12 to make him miserable!

 

[Koty]

One ATO, one for carbon dosing, one for amino acids (Feed corals/nitrogen addition), three for Balling system + trace elements

 

[Evil1]

2 is all I need.. all for reef and bacto balance.

Same here!

 

[SPS2020]

5 for my DT. Not counting ATO or H20 changes, which are automated.

 

[Keko21]

3 heads. Brightwell Reefcode A, Reefcode B, and Magnesion.

 

[exnisstech]

2 on one tank and two on another for 2 part. One on the 3rd dosing kalk 24/7