For this episode, we go to Mark Esquenazi of ME Coral to discuss about dosers. What's out there? What do you look for? What is the important things about dosers that you should know about?
Enjoy!
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Great video, but you forgot to mention the DŌS by Neptune Systems -
One issue. I do a 5 to 10% water change every week and i find that even the very expensive salts seem to be imbalanced and seem to never mix at alk of 9 and a cal of 450. Every time i do a water change i find it throws the parameters out of balance in such a way that dosing equal parts of the two part just don't ever seem to work. Example. My alk is 8.46 but my Ca is 410: so i need a bit more ca than i need alk.
I realize if you were basing this on coral use, you would always get exactly equal parts but when you factor in the fact that salts never mix up as advertised...different story. I&O for example is well known to mix high in alk but low in ca. I have the HW marinemix and it mixes high to around 8.5/490 and if i am not careful with it it will cause the ca to go so high that any alk you add just participates and you get a low alk that cant be corrected because the ca is so high..all because of the salt mix.
It seems to me the idea that you can does without constantly testing (or even maintain a tank without constantly testing) is a pipe dream???
Side note; if you work your alk to a 9 dKH then the balance point for ca would be 426. I never seen a week go by that there isn't a small difference in ca/alk balance from even dosing.One issue. I do a 5 to 10% water change every week and i find that even the very expensive salts seem to be imbalanced and seem to never mix at alk of 9 and a cal of 450. Every time i do a water change i find it throws the parameters out of balance in such a way that dosing equal parts of the two part just don't ever seem to work. Example. My alk is 8.46 but my Ca is 410: so i need a bit more ca than i need alk.
I realize if you were basing this on coral use, you would always get exactly equal parts but when you factor in the fact that salts never mix up as advertised...different story. I&O for example is well known to mix high in alk but low in ca. I have the HW marinemix and it mixes high to around 8.5/490 and if i am not careful with it it will cause the ca to go so high that any alk you add just participates and you get a low alk that cant be corrected because the ca is so high..all because of the salt mix.
It seems to me the idea that you can does without constantly testing (or even maintain a tank without constantly testing) is a pipe dream???
For this episode, we go to Mark Esquenazi of ME Coral to discuss about dosers. What's out there? What do you look for? What is the important things about dosers that you should know about?
Enjoy!