Randy Holmes-Farley
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Hello all,
I recently switched from kalk in the ATO to All For Reef in a high demand nano and am dosing 24 hours a day. I am getting a bit of a daily alkalinity swing and would like to dampen the swing by dosing mostly during the day while corals are consuming higher amounts of calcium and alkalinity. Therefore, I would like to start dosing, say, 6 hours before lights on, and end dosing a little after lights off.
Does this seem reasonable to assume that the biological metabolism of formate into alkalinity would occur in within a 6 hour timeframe? Or does anyone have any recommendations on how to minimize a daily alkalinity swing using AFR?
It will be difficult and perhaps not even meaningful since TM claims the product will not show on an alk test but rather ya taken up directly by corals.
But I do think dosing during the day is best.