Red Sea ReefDose and All for Reef

[Cornelia_Reefer]

I plan to start dosing All for Reef in the future for my Red Sea Nano Max G2 XL. I bought my tank second hand and the seller included a ReefDose 2. I can’t seem to figure out a solution for the container.

I don’t see anything in the 500 ml range that would work stock. I have extra chihiros containers, but the tube sizes are different. I’m thinking of perhaps drilling the caps and adding a barbed bulkhead, but I’m not sure that will be reliable.

Anyone doing something similar?

 

[Naturalreef]

Voss 500ml water bottles is what I use for all for reef. You can get them glass or plastic. I just drilled a little oversized hole so it doesnt create a vacuum and put the red sea tubing right in the bottle. You can put an acrylic tube and bulkhead if you want as well.

 

[slingfox]

I plan to start dosing All for Reef in the future for my Red Sea Nano Max G2 XL. I bought my tank second hand and the seller included a ReefDose 2. I can’t seem to figure out a solution for the container.

I don’t see anything in the 500 ml range that would work stock. I have extra chihiros containers, but the tube sizes are different. I’m thinking of perhaps drilling the caps and adding a barbed bulkhead, but I’m not sure that will be reliable.

Anyone doing something similar?

I have various chemicals and additives on six dosers. All are in containers where I have drilled and installed 1/4” push fit bulkheads. No issues since I set up my tank three years ago. I use more rigid tubing for the portion that sits inside the vessel.

The bulkheads are readily available on Amazon:

https://a.co/d/06y3DXsp

 

[Cornelia_Reefer]

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[Cornelia_Reefer]

Voss 500ml water bottles is what I use for all for reef. You can get them glass or plastic. I just drilled a little oversized hole so it doesnt create a vacuum and put the red sea tubing right in the bottle. You can put an acrylic tube and bulkhead if you want as well.

That sounds easy enough. My only fear would be the solution getting stronger over time due to evaporation. Is that not an issue?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I use glass milk jugs, and drilled a tubing size hole through the plastic cap. Evaporation is not an issue and enough air gets in to replace fluid pumped out.

 

[Fish Fan]

That sounds easy enough. My only fear would be the solution getting stronger over time due to evaporation. Is that not an issue?

No worries with using the Voss bottles, or really any food safe container, many people have done this:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/voss-water-bottles-for-dosing-containers.1083416/
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/p...o-buy-to-make-a-voss-dosing-container.794359/



I hope this helps!

 

[Fish Fan]

I use glass milk jugs, and drilled a tubing size hole through the plastic cap. Evaporation is not an issue and enough air gets in to replace fluid pumped out.

+1 for the glass milk jugs, I am starting to use these now. Half-gallon sized from my local dairy (though I wish they had smaller for my tank).

 

[Cornelia_Reefer]

Awesome, I appreciate all of the replies.

 

[jwaldbusser]

I plan to start dosing All for Reef in the future for my Red Sea Nano Max G2 XL. I bought my tank second hand and the seller included a ReefDose 2. I can’t seem to figure out a solution for the container.

I don’t see anything in the 500 ml range that would work stock. I have extra chihiros containers, but the tube sizes are different. I’m thinking of perhaps drilling the caps and adding a barbed bulkhead, but I’m not sure that will be reliable.

Anyone doing something similar?

I have that tank , I think. Grew out all my acros dosing All For Reef by hand for a long time then got the RS doser , didn’t work out for me . Use the Neptune now, but All for Reef worked out great . I ordered the powder , mixed it and keep it a cheap 2 liter plastic container from Amazon .

 

[Marco_99]

I use one of these for AFR and buy the powder and mix my own. I like these because they’re thin and have good volume. I drill a hole in the cap and slide the dosing tube in off a Reef Dose 4

 

[Cornelia_Reefer]

I have that tank , I think. Grew out all my acros dosing All For Reef by hand for a long time then got the RS doser , didn’t work out for me . Use the Neptune now, but All for Reef worked out great . I ordered the powder , mixed it and keep it a cheap 2 liter plastic container from Amazon .

Wow! Tank goals. I actually have the XL and yours seems to be the XXL. I’m already dreaming about a bigger tank.

Are you using the stock lighting?

I’m trying to make this work because it was thrown in for free with the tank. What issues did you run into with the ReefDose? I’ve seen some reports of clogging.

 

[Cornelia_Reefer]

Well, I feel like a dope.

I was feeling lazy about digging the extra containers out of my garbage and relied on ChatGPT to see if the Chihiros containers would work stock with the Ref Sea dosing tubing. It assured me it wouldn’t.

As I drilled the hole in the cap I realized I had never tried it by hand. Guess what? The stock Chihiros container cap works perfectly when I tested it with RODI.

Burned again by over reliance on AI. Hopefully this helps someone else out.

 

[Cornelia_Reefer]

Perfect fit