I have a 350 gallon display that I am using IO Reef Crystals salt for my water changes - every 2 weeks I change out around 80 gallons. (Primarily to keep phosphates under control and replenish trace elements.)
I'm dosing half cup baked baking soda to 500 ml of water and half cup calcium chloride to 500 ml of water and just upped my dosing to 144 ml a day. I'll need larger dosing containers for my bubble magus doser and start dosing closer to 200 ml as my consumption is rising significantly. Yesterday my alk was around 8 dkh (hana checker) and upped my dosing by an additional ml an hour and checked all the dosing connections to make sure nothing was plugged or having issues. And today my alk was down to 7.8. So, I may be ending up close to 200 ml a day to maintain my alk. I don't test calcium unless I see a problem. When I did test it was always between 440 and 480.
So, I'm afraid I'm hitting the limit of 2 part dosing. Or do I move to a larger container (a gallon container instead of 500 ml container and custom build a dosing container for my bubble magus. I've heard calcium reactors can maintain both alk and calcium.
How do these work?
And what is the cost of running the media and maintenance of the media?
I've never ran one in all my years in the hobby. I'm having the best success I've ever had in my life with corals and now need to move out of my comfort zone! Especially since I'll be taking a 11 day vacation this summer and don't expect my friends to worry about mixing my two part media.
I'm dosing half cup baked baking soda to 500 ml of water and half cup calcium chloride to 500 ml of water and just upped my dosing to 144 ml a day. I'll need larger dosing containers for my bubble magus doser and start dosing closer to 200 ml as my consumption is rising significantly. Yesterday my alk was around 8 dkh (hana checker) and upped my dosing by an additional ml an hour and checked all the dosing connections to make sure nothing was plugged or having issues. And today my alk was down to 7.8. So, I may be ending up close to 200 ml a day to maintain my alk. I don't test calcium unless I see a problem. When I did test it was always between 440 and 480.
So, I'm afraid I'm hitting the limit of 2 part dosing. Or do I move to a larger container (a gallon container instead of 500 ml container and custom build a dosing container for my bubble magus. I've heard calcium reactors can maintain both alk and calcium.
How do these work?
And what is the cost of running the media and maintenance of the media?
I've never ran one in all my years in the hobby. I'm having the best success I've ever had in my life with corals and now need to move out of my comfort zone! Especially since I'll be taking a 11 day vacation this summer and don't expect my friends to worry about mixing my two part media.