How much Alkalinity and Calcium 2 Part are you dosing?

[revhtree]

Good input so far!

 

[authentic]

120 ml each Brs 2 part
Heavy sps 140 gal
Lots of coralline

 

[revhtree]

I actually had a bit more coral than what Inwas thinking so I counted.

12 LPS (small to medium colonies)
23 LPS Frags
5 Soft (small to medium colonies)
11 Shroom Frags (26 Heads)
22 SPS Frags
1 Medium Cap
27 Zoa Frags

375ml a day in about 425g of water.

 

[DipG]

1) 175 ml per day (ESV B ionic 2 part)
2) 200 gallons
3) Mainly SPS; large staghorn colonies and quite a few frags too.

 

[Reefltx]

For me it's the following:

1. 375ml of each

2. 425g

3. Mixed.

12 LPS (small to medium colonies)
23 LPS Frags
5 Soft (small to medium colonies)
11 Shroom Frags (26 Heads)
22 SPS Frags
1 Medium Cap
27 Zoa Frags

Why not just run a calcium reactor?
You are dosing so much, would it not be better in the long run?

 

[revhtree]

Why not just run a calcium reactor?
You are dosing so much, would it not be better in the long run?

Yea I will have to in the very near future so I'm on the lookout.

 

[brogers]

Interesting, I have a Reefer 170liter which is aproximately 40 gallon total. Very lightly stocked All lps and softies and I am dosing close to 45 ml a day! Mag is at 1350, alk 8.1 and calcium 470! Am i doing somerting wrong? Does that sound like too much? I also have no coralline algae after 5 months and no signa of precipitation.

 

[Lazys Coral House]

375ml per day of alk and 375ml calcium and 375ml of diluted mag. 800ml at the highest about a year ago.

3 tanks connected together (375g total)
8' sps
7' sps
10' lps/softies
About 20 large sps colonies, 500 large sps frags, 200 softies and 100 lps

 

[buzzword]

None. I use a Kalk King Kalk stirrer. My alk stays between 7.7 and 8.2dKh, pH from low in morning of 8.00 to 8.3 in the evening.
Ca+ 450
Mag 1400
Total volume 270g.
32 SPS frags, 4 solid SPS colonies, 2 med monti caps, 2 clams. Numerous palys and zoas, 2 torch frags and 1 large 14 head colony. Goniopora , acans, favia, 3 chalices, etc. Oh and not including the frag rack.
Been using nothing but Kalk since 2004. Got to one point where my first tank a 120g was packed with acros that I had to start dosing Ca+ every other day.
Keep it simple and go with what you know.

 

[ndrwater]

Currently 235ml BIonic Cal and ALK
Working up though. Had low ALK issues recently and in the process of getting to the sweet spot for my tank which is about 9.5 +/-
240 gallon display 60 gallons in the sump
All SPS growing like weeds, mostly big colonies. Haven't counted in a while, but somewhere between 20-30 with a half dozen or so frags..

 

[fabutahoun]

75 ml of BRS Calcium Chloride and Soda Ash Daily
180 Gallon Display and 60 gallon sump
Corals:

SPS: 50 frags and Mini Colonies
LPS: 11
soft: 5
Clam : 1​

 

[BluewaterLa]

210 gallon display total water volume of system with filtration minus rock, sand and coral displacement I dose for 220 gallons total volume.

Heavy sps / acro frags to colonies should count them
Fair amount of Lps, estimate 20 frags and 10 colonies
Roughly 13 variants of zoa / paly colonies
Few large toadstools
Probably forgetting a good bit.

Upgraded tank size and with the new sand in this system I was dosing 145 ml of calcium and alkalinity per day brs 2 part solution to maintain 8.4 dkh and 440 ppm calcium.
Magnesium once a month dosed 1400 ppm

After the tank settled in the alk and cal consumption took a bit of a dive. I relate this to the new sand absorbing some of it, hard to explain my thoughts with a tired brain but have witnessed this happen with many systems and new sand.
Long story short I didn't test for a week when this balance happed and my sand top layer took a hit from the excess carbonates. Had to break up some and discard some.

Any who, now stable and level with no imbalances known
I keep the same parameters stable with good growth while dosing 75 ml per day of brs 2 part for calcium and alk.

It is slightly going up to keep up with extra frags added and existing coral growth.
I will be adjusting the dose pump up 3 ml of each solution per day and sure this will happen again.

 

[BluewaterLa]

@revhtree
Check around your rocks for hard sand, it may be on the surface or a little deeper in the sand bed.
375 ml does seem high even with a fair amount of corals in the tank.

 

[lobster]

30ml each a day of brs 2 part for 60 gallon plus 20 gal sump. Also use kalkwasser on ato keeping my alk at 8.5-9.0. Heavy sps about 30-40 mini colony. Also 2 5-6" maxima clam.

Very cool post, this should be helpful and educational for many members looking at the varieties.

 

[jeffrey holloway]

BRS 2 part

1. 60ml - 70ml of both daily

2. 150g

3. 50 total corals. very mixed

 

[yellojello]

Would dosing all at once daily instead of many smaller throughout the day with autodoser make a difference in consumption or precipitation?

 

[FLSharkvictim]

I use ME CORAL - AlK, CAL and there Magnesium and I have got nothing but outstanding benefits from these products. It's a small company out of Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Their prices are very reasonable as well. Anyhow, I use a Eshoops IV Mater doser w/ slave to dose with. I dose 10mls per day for my Alk, Cal and the Mag. My current parameters are the following since I just tested everything today.
Alk
Cal
Mag
PO4

 

[FLSharkvictim]

Sorry ran out of time!

My parameters for the day.,
Alk: 9.0 dHK
CAL: 450
MAG:1300
Salinity: 1.025
PH: 8.4
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TANK INFO:
120 display
Ecotech M1 pump
Apex Classic with a Salinity probe
Apex ALD Module w/ 2 Leak Detector probes
Apex PM2 Module
BreakOut box
Skimz 163 DC Montzer Series skimmer
Custom sump / Refuge
2 TUNZE Turbella 6055 Pumps
2 AI Hydra TwentySix HD LED Fixtures
Celestial C35W Maxspect Refuge Spotlight
Aqua UV Ultraviolet Sterilizer 25w
BRS Dual Media reactor
Eshoops IV Master & Slave Doser
Tunze 3155 Auto Top Off
Avast Kalk Reactor
--------------------------------------------
SPS /LPS & Soft Corals:
2 Acros
2 FrogSpawn
Torch Coral
1 Octospawn
2 Coco Feather dusters
1 large Star Polyps
5 Orange Sponges
1 Large Toadstool Leather
--------------------------------------------
FISH:
Yellow Tang
Powder Blue Tang
Flame Angle
Kaudern's Cardinal qty 2
Blue Caribbean Tang
Blue/Green Reef Chromis qty 2
Lyretail Anthias qty 3
Kamohara Blenny
Ocellaris Clownfish qty 2
Purple Stripe Dottyback
---------------------------------------------
Inverts:
Blood Red Shrimp
Banded Shrimp
Turbo Snails qty 15
Brittle Star

 

[ImGood]

I was dosing 435 ml of Ca and 396 ml Kh, and 35 ml Mg daily. Then I covered the tank, & sump. That has Stopped 3+gallons evaporation/day. And I now dose 14 ml CA, 12ml Kh, and 9 mlMg /day. Been like that for 5 months now. It's a 400g mixed reef tank. I've been using reef crystals for the past year.i check parameters regularly, sometimes more often. Hope this helps

 

[burtbollinger]

tank is 4 months old....6 small montipora frags...i probably dont need to dose but trying to hold Alk. at a steady 9 and getting to "know" the tank...dosing @ 5 ML every other day of ESV Bionic.

Tank is a Red Sea Reefer 170 with a total water volume of @ 35g if I had to guess.