Tropic Marin All-for-Reef

[izzyishh]

Good afternoon fellow Reefers! Who of you use all for reef and if you can share your tank specs and how much you dose a day and your daily Alk consumption!

 

[Quietman]

I do. RSR170 lightly stocked (mixed, primarily LPS) at the moment. My daily is about 5 ml to maintain 8.5 dKH. Love the simplicity and all in one dosing. So far I don't see a need to move to 2 part/3 part. Perhaps down the road but the more I use it and like it, the more I'm happy with the cost even if it goes higher.

 

[izzyishh]

I do. RSR170 lightly stocked (mixed, primarily LPS) at the moment. My daily is about 5 ml to maintain 8.5 dKH. Love the simplicity and all in one dosing. So far I don't see a need to move to 2 part/3 part. Perhaps down the road but the more I use it and like it, the more I'm happy with the cost even if it goes higher.

Nice! I'm trying to see how long I can get away with only dosing all for Reef on my 100g. I'm not worried about the price since I purchased the diy option. Just throws me off that things sill stay "balanced" tank currently sucks up alk. Cal not so much

 

[Quietman]

My Ca stays really high, but that's mostly the HW Marine salt I suspect since it's been there from day one. Plus currently battling a pretty major GHA/Cyano mess so corals aren't really growing at the moment (that's not the All For Reef - before this my SPS were doing very nicely growth wise).

 

[izzyishh]

My Ca stays really high, but that's mostly the HW Marine salt I suspect since it's been there from day one. Plus currently battling a pretty major GHA/Cyano mess so corals aren't really growing at the moment (that's not the All For Reef - before this my SPS were doing very nicely growth wise).

I use Fritz blue salt and love it hopefully the AFR plays well with it

 

[jack_aubry]

I dose carbocalcium (same stuff just without the trace elements and mg). I dose 12ml (at 3x4ml) a day IM 40 mixed reef. The best part is that you can dose in a low flow area

 

[izzyishh]

I dose carbocalcium (same stuff just without the trace elements and mg). I dose 12ml (at 3x4ml) a day IM 40 mixed reef. The best part is that you can dose in a low flow area

whats your ALK and Cal? and 24hr consumption ?

 

[Sunny Goold]

I dose Kalkwasser and use A4R when my Alk is lower.
I also wrote to FM and Lou and Dr Balling were kind enough to answer a few questions. Like confirmation it does release Alk slowly and also that you could mix Kalk with CarboCalcium plus the K+ and A- (I think it is) trace - this is what they say to use not the Sodium free salt. Then (as I understand) you would only need to dose Mg occasionally.
Anyhow like most of you commenting here I still have low consumption so I am using Kalkwasser and plan on mixing in the Carbo Calc and the trace when I need more.
I feel like even with high consumption with the powder mixes into the ATO or a single dosing pump is a super cost effective option.
(I have heard a rumor though that it clogs up dosers more than Kalk - but that was only once so I'd be interested to hear but I expect in the ATO, diluted with RO, it wouldn't be an issue).

 

[izzyishh]

I dose Kalkwasser and use A4R when my Alk is lower.
I also wrote to FM and Lou and Dr Balling were kind enough to answer a few questions. Like confirmation it does release Alk slowly and also that you could mix Kalk with CarboCalcium plus the K+ and A- (I think it is) trace - this is what they say to use not the Sodium free salt. Then (as I understand) you would only need to dose Mg occasionally.
Anyhow like most of you commenting here I still have low consumption so I am using Kalkwasser and plan on mixing in the Carbo Calc and the trace when I need more.
I feel like even with high consumption with the powder mixes into the ATO or a single dosing pump is a super cost effective option.
(I have heard a rumor though that it clogs up dosers more than Kalk - but that was only once so I'd be interested to hear but I expect in the ATO, diluted with RO, it wouldn't be an issue).

Awesome! Thank you for the information! Last night I set up my Versa Pump and began to dose the A4R. I have always used the ESV 2 part and love it but due to time and schedule issues I need to simply my life in the hobby. So I hope this can keep up with my tank Ill keep people updated if intrested on the post.

 

[Filipabp]

I keep a 33 gallon mixed reef that has been running for 18 months. I love All-for-reef, it makes everything so much easier imo.. I dose 18 ml per day

 

[greekspec2]

37gal 6"-10" colonies NO SKIMMER' Halides/T5's ....I dose 5ml All for Reef twice daily for a DKH of 7.5 and Tropic Marin Bio Actif and Nitribiotic twice a week.

 

[jack_aubry]

whats your ALK and Cal? and 24hr consumption ?

I run red sea blue bucket salt and just maintain at those levels (8 alk and 420 ppm ca) I did the math once to see how much alk and ca is in a single ml you can figure it out from the tropic marin website, but I just started with the lowest amount suggested and increased by 2 ml per day every week until levels were higher at the end of the week.

 

[Filipabp]

@greekspec2 With that amount of sps I'm quite surprised you almost dose half of what I do with a bigger tank

 

[greekspec2]

@greekspec2 With that amount of sps I'm quite surprised you almost dose half of what I do with a bigger tank

I run my DKH at 7.5 and use Pro Reef which mixes 7.5-7.7 DKH at 35ppt I dose 5ml once in the morning and once in the evening.

 

[EastCoastScaping]

I used it in my nano reef. A im nuvo 10, 8gallons of water and i dosed 1.4ml daily. About 1dkh was consumed daily by the lps and sps in my tank. I never checked magnesium or calcium, just alk. I didnt do waterchanges for 3 months, just dosing all for reef and everything was growing really fast and looked really healthy.

 

[CyberGuy]

Do you guys do any water change when using All For Reef?

 

[greekspec2]

Do you guys do any water change when using All For Reef?

of course weekly a daily showers

 

[EastCoastScaping]

I didnt for 3 months and everything was fine. But i usually did biweekly 35% waterchange

 

[izzyishh]

Any of you guys run A4F with a versa pump yet?

 

[Shaka_Reefer]

I have a 45G, mixed reef, and SPS are just frags so I’m only dosing 4ml all-for-reef daily using a Neptune DOS. I only test alkalinity and it’s at 9.0dkh.
I also do a 5-gallon water change/week using Tropic Marin salt.