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Thanks. Most people have all of their output lines close together. If they are apart there shouldn’t be a huge reason to wait an hour. For example. My soda ash output goes into the sump right near the return. The calcium goes into the sump near the filter socks. The flow in my tank is such that within 10 minutes everything is mixed and I have no precipitation. So while I wouldn’t necessarily run them together. I wouldn’t worry about running them 10 minutes apart. Frankly it’s probably fine to run them at the same time if there is enough separation and enough flow. JmhoActually I have but I'll repeat and post more evidence from yet another manufacture - this time Aqua Forest. Guidelines for dosing vary by manufacture but here is an extreme example from Aqua Forest that calls for a 1 hour gap between dosing solutions. Can you please explain to me how simply putting your dosing lines in separate locations will provide similar results as an hour long delay between dosing?
Further, I've been dosing Triton for quite a while now and never had problems with precipitation until my dose became very high relative to my water volume as the tank matured and coral / coralline became dense. So while many might be able to get away with either dealing with some minor precipitation or not having any due to relatively low stocking / dose, the struggle is real for those of us using products like Triton etc. for dense SPS reefs that are 100% reliant on dosing (no water changes etc). I'm currently tracking to spend about $1500 per year on core 7 for a 165g tank and would prefer not to waste it to precipitation.
Additionally, as already explained, Triton recommends dosing Core 7 Full Triton into the algae fuge to promote better algae growth and nutrient reduction. Again this is not unfounded and I have seen similar results. Moving dosing locations is at odds with this directive.
