New to Dosing Help with all for Reef

[buruskeee]

This is good advice AFTER you have reached your target alkalinity.

Yes, of course you’ll want to see it increasing, but I’m giving the fundamentals so the OP can be on the right track with calculations.

 

[Sdoutreefer]

I mix my own salt water and I will be mixing my own all for Reef, I just like the ease of dosing everything at once because it seems like less to wrap my head around as a beginner

Good! Having control of your water is important

 

[McPuff]

I think the advice from @rishma is pretty good. I used AFR for about a year and a half. When I had to raise ALK I would just use soda ash to bring it up as it's quick and much cheaper... and it doesn't have all of the other "elements" coming along with it. My system is 300 gallons so I was dosing quite a bit, but I started to notice that my CA was getting really high and some other parameters were also elevated. I started to lower the AFR dose and ADD in soda ash to try and balance it out. Eventually I just switched to the balling method which is basically AFR but split out into components.

Anyway... AFR is a nice product and really simplifies dosing. Good luck.