Dosing

[Balz3352]

This is just a question to see what people's dosing schedule is (if any) and what products they use, swear by, love, hate...I know it depends on the system but if you would in your post please put

1. Type of system you have... Gallons, sps heavy, mix... Salt you use and water change schedule.

2. Do you test? How often?

3. Do you dose? If so what do you dose? And how much/schedule

4. Do you have good results? If you even know? Would you recommend the product?

5. What have you done in the past if anything dosing wise?

6. Anything you didn't like you did in the past? (recommend not using, why?)


Feel free to comment anything relevant too.
I know it's involved but I think this could be a good thing to learn from other reefers who have tried and currently doing different things than you.

 

[Balz3352]

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[sethsolomon]

1. Type of system you have... Gallons, sps heavy, mix... Salt you use and water change schedule.

120g full reef with lots of sps. I use fritz salt. And do a water change every 2 weeks.


2. Do you test? How often?

I do when a coral looks unhappy


3. Do you dose? If so what do you dose? And how much/schedule

I run a calcium reactor and I dose phyto and potassium.


4. Do you have good results? If you even know? Would you recommend the product?

Thrive potassium seems to be giving me great results as for coral color. And everyone should dose live phyto.


5. What have you done in the past if anything dosing wise?

I tried a dosing pump and it dumped an entire bottle of alk into my 60g cube so now i only use a dosing pump for things that cannot be overdosed like phyto.


6. Anything you didn't like you did in the past? (recommend not using, why?)

I tried vitamin c dosing and it helped my zoas grow but hindered my sps growth.

 

[Balz3352]

Seth how often/much do you dose or how do you dose phyto
And do you just buy from gwa since youre in foco?

 

[sethsolomon]

Seth how often/much do you dose or how do you dose phyto
And do you just buy from gwa since youre in foco?

I dose 4 cups a day via dosing pump. And I grow my own phyto.

 

[Balz3352]

Seth can't be the only one who doses... Maybe I'm just not being patient enough for people to respond

 

[SynDen]

Well I don't dose anything yet, although I do put a bit of alk buffer in ro water but that about it

 

[ThatsDeep!]

Seth can't be the only one who doses... Maybe I'm just not being patient enough for people to respond

As a relative newb, I was told to just let the fish **** in the tank and leave it be. So, of course I put stuff in . I put in live phyto as I have a pod population that needs maintenance for Mandarin and Target. I have added Combisan ? for some trace elements 1/2 the recommended dose maybe once a month so far. I also add Reef Roids and target feed once every 2 weeks. Everything kept saying it needed zooanthele [sp] and I found this had it.

That being said, since nitrate issues I stopped everything but really tiny 2 min feeding of the fish until it is better. Now at 25 ppm, so we have a way to go.

I too would love to hear what others use with success as well as what did not work. People?

 

[CRW Reef]

1. Type of system you have... Gallons, sps heavy, mix... Salt you use and water change schedule.
75 gallon mixed reef - some sps, some lps, 2 anemones, 1 clam and a few zoanthids

2. Do you test? How often?
a self admitted fault I only run tests when things start looking bad

3. Do you dose? If so what do you dose? And how much/schedule
15ml each of Seachem Reef Fusion 1&2 every few days, 5ml of Kent Marine Tech M every 5 days or so, Aquavitro Fuel 5 ml one time per week

4. Do you have good results? If you even know? Would you recommend the product?
Adding the Tech M into my mix really perked everything up that was suffering - for the first time ever for me I can usually look and see every zoa colony or frag opened at one time vs at random

5. What have you done in the past if anything dosing wise?
Used to strictly rely on water changes only until I added lots of sps and my sunburst - what ever you do start slow and low in volume, working your way up to larger amounts so that you dont over do it

6. Anything you didn't like you did in the past? (recommend not using, why?)
Tried Kalkwasser previously and it worked well, just more of a PIA (at least for me and the way i was drip dosing) than it was worth for me. Now that I have dosers just sitting around I might try kalkwasser again


by no means do I recommend my method of madness to anyone (because what works for me might not work for you) - just participating in the thread

 

[zombie]

1. Type of system you have... Gallons, sps heavy, mix... Salt you use and water change schedule.

125 gallon, medium stocked mixed reef with 1 nem and 1 clam

2. Do you test? How often?

Test once every 2 weeks just after a water change. (gives me a baseline to adjust dosing if anything has changed)

3. Do you dose? If so what do you dose? And how much/schedule

Kalkwasser at 1 tsp per gallon with 2 ml per gallon of vinegar.

brs magnesium 20 ml per day on dosing pump (adjusted up to +/- 10 ml per day each week to match demand)

brs sodium carbonate. havent needed to add much after switching to kalk. usually 100 ml in two doses every two weeks to make up for lack of dkH from kalk

brs calcium. same deal as alk. need about 200 ml in two doses every two weeks to make up for lack in kalk.

4. Do you have good results? If you even know? Would you recommend the product?

tried other supplements for big 3. they all work exactly the same but brs is the cheapest (excluding diy randys recipe)

5. What have you done in the past if anything dosing wise?

used to dose trace elements. stopped since no major change was seen and I couldnt test for them

6. Anything you didn't like you did in the past? (recommend not using, why?)

dont dose phyto that isnt live. all it does is give you a huge algae bloom and boost your nitrates. live can do the same if it isnt used sparingly.

Feel free to comment anything relevant too.
I know it's involved but I think this could be a good thing to learn from other reefers who have tried and currently doing different things than you.

 

[sethsolomon]

dont dose phyto that isnt live. all it does is give you a huge algae bloom and boost your nitrates.

+1

live can do the same if it isnt used sparingly.

I disagree. I dose about 4 -5 cups of phyto a day and I have not noticed any phosphate/nitrate/nitrite spike. Now of course this could depend on how it is cultured and what type of nutrients are used to grow the phyto.

 

[Jeremiah]

You have a place locally to get the Kent Tech M?

1. Type of system you have... Gallons, sps heavy, mix... Salt you use and water change schedule.
75 gallon mixed reef - some sps, some lps, 2 anemones, 1 clam and a few zoanthids

2. Do you test? How often?
a self admitted fault I only run tests when things start looking bad

3. Do you dose? If so what do you dose? And how much/schedule
15ml each of Seachem Reef Fusion 1&2 every few days, 5ml of Kent Marine Tech M every 5 days or so, Aquavitro Fuel 5 ml one time per week

4. Do you have good results? If you even know? Would you recommend the product?
Adding the Tech M into my mix really perked everything up that was suffering - for the first time ever for me I can usually look and see every zoa colony or frag opened at one time vs at random

5. What have you done in the past if anything dosing wise?
Used to strictly rely on water changes only until I added lots of sps and my sunburst - what ever you do start slow and low in volume, working your way up to larger amounts so that you dont over do it

6. Anything you didn't like you did in the past? (recommend not using, why?)
Tried Kalkwasser previously and it worked well, just more of a PIA (at least for me and the way i was drip dosing) than it was worth for me. Now that I have dosers just sitting around I might try kalkwasser again


by no means do I recommend my method of madness to anyone (because what works for me might not work for you) - just participating in the thread

 

[SynDen]

+1



I disagree. I dose about 4 -5 cups of phyto a day and I have not noticed any phosphate/nitrate/nitrite spike. Now of course this could depend on how it is cultured and what type of nutrients are used to grow the phyto.

Yes but arent you are feeding a large feather star which I am sure consumes a good deal the pyhto?

 

[sethsolomon]

Yes but arent you are feeding a large feather star which I am sure consumes a good deal the pyhto?

Not any more My potters angel ate the feather star 2 weeks ago and then the potters angel proceeded to die from the toxins in the starfish. The only strictly phyto eater's now are some terazoanthus and a carnation coral.

 

[SynDen]

Not any more My potters angel ate the feather star 2 weeks ago and then the potters angel proceeded to die from the toxins in the starfish. The only strictly phyto eater's now are some terazoanthus and a carnation coral.

Well that is unfortunate.

 

[Balz3352]

So only 3 people dose? I don't believe it