Survey: How much do you dose 2 part?

[curtismaximus]

I just started dosing 2 part this weekend and I was curious about how much other members dose. Here is a survey I found. I will start...

1. How many ml of Alk & Cal do you dose over a 24 hour period?

35Ml of Cal and Alk

2. How many ml of Mag? Weekly?

I will dose one gal when I run out of Cal and Alk

3. Total Water Volume?

125 gallon tank with about 40 gallons in the sump so ~ 120gal total

4. Small, Medium, or Heavily Stocked with Coral? What type?

Medium stocked, Mixed Reef

5. Are you using Kalk as well? If so, how much per gallon of RODI?

No Kalk

6. What doser are you using? Or are you manually dosing?

2 BRS dosers hooked up to my Apex

7. Water change schedule

25 gal every three weeks

8. Filtration

Over sized skimmer, carbon dosing, and a bag of carbon

9.Pic of tank

I do not have an updated but will add one later.

 

[fishdude]

1. How many ml of Alk & Cal do you dose over a 24 hour period?

50 Ml of Cal and Alk

2. How many ml of Mag? Weekly?

50 ml every 4 days

3. Total Water Volume?

~100 Gal

4. Small, Medium, or Heavily Stocked with Coral? What type?

Medium stocked, Mixed Reef

5. Are you using Kalk as well? If so, how much per gallon of RODI?

No Kalk

6. What doser are you using? Or are you manually dosing?

Manually, 8PMish

7. Water change schedule

15 gal every 10 days

8. Filtration

Small sump, with matrix and normally sized skimmer

9.Pic of tank
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[enderg60]

1. How many ml of Alk & Cal do you dose over a 24 hour period?

Alk 420 ml
Calc 720 ml

2. How many ml of Mag? Weekly?

Mag 480 ml / day

3. Total Water Volume?

~480 gal

4. Small, Medium, or Heavily Stocked with Coral? What type?

Lightly stocked so far, but filling up.

5. Are you using Kalk as well? If so, how much per gallon of RODI?

No Kalk

6. What doser are you using? Or are you manually dosing?

Dosing pumps on my AC3

7. Water change schedule

2 gal daily, and 100g once a month

8. Filtration

Over sized skimmer, vodka dosing, GFO, Algea scrubber, over 500lbs of live rock

9.Pic of tank

Nothing recent since I just set it back up.

EDIT: I should note that I dose more then I should due to the daily water changes with IO salt which I dont dose to proper levels before hand. I just dose more daily to make up for the drop. I just test every week and make minor adjustments to the dosing if its needed.

 

[curtismaximus]

EnderG60;953058 wrote: 1. How many ml of Alk & Cal do you dose over a 24 hour period?

Alk 420 ml
Calc 720 ml

2. How many ml of Mag? Weekly?

Mag 480 ml / day

3. Total Water Volume?

~480 gal

4. Small, Medium, or Heavily Stocked with Coral? What type?

Lightly stocked so far, but filling up.

5. Are you using Kalk as well? If so, how much per gallon of RODI?

No Kalk

6. What doser are you using? Or are you manually dosing?

Dosing pumps on my AC3

7. Water change schedule

2 gal daily, and 100g once a month

8. Filtration

Over sized skimmer, vodka dosing, GFO, Algea scrubber, over 500lbs of live rock

9.Pic of tank

Nothing recent since I just set it back up.

EDIT: I should note that I dose more then I should due to the daily water changes with IO salt which I dont dose to proper levels before hand. I just dose more daily to make up for the drop. I just test every week and make minor adjustments to the dosing if its needed.

Wow that is a lot of dosing for a newly setup tank. Why do you have to add so much to the mix?

 

[enderg60]

I dont add to my mix thats one of the reasons. IO is in the low 300's for calcium and low 1200's for mag. Plus I like to keep my alk at 3.5-4 mg/l so every time it does the 2 gal water change it lowers my levels

I have coralline algea growing like crazy though, oh and I hit the wrong button on the calculator my calc is only 480ml/ day lol.

Other then that Im not really sure where it goes. I just test and adjust the timing accordingly and it works out just fine.

 

[ralph atl]

Curtismaximus;953042 wrote: I just started dosing 2 part this weekend and I was curious about how much other members dose. Here is a survey I found. I will start...

1. How many ml of Alk & Cal do you dose over a 24 hour period?

140ml of Cal and 90ml Alk

2. How many ml of Mag? Weekly?

150

I will dose one gal when I run out of Cal and Alk

3. Total Water Volume?

88 gallon tank with about 30 or so? gallons in the sump so ~ 100gal total

4. Small, Medium, or Heavily Stocked with Coral? What type?

heavy stocked, SPS dominated mixed reef

5. Are you using Kalk as well? If so, how much per gallon of RODI?

No Kalk

6. What doser are you using? Or are you manually dosing?

aqua medic doser

7. Water change schedule

40 gallons every week or sometimes bi-weekly

8. Filtration

Over sized skimmer, manual wetvac of sump with every water change, carbon (10 ml vodka daily) dosing, 1 cup of HC GFO and 1 cup Rox 0.8 carbon changed weekly

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[curtismaximus]

Hey Ralph, I'm curious about the wet vac process of the sump. Is there any thing special you do there or just a quick cleaning?

 

[ralph atl]

Curtismaximus;953311 wrote: Hey Ralph, I'm curious about the wet vac process of the sump. Is there any thing special you do there or just a quick cleaning?

Lowes Bucket Head wetvac, I just suck it all up after no water...

 

[curtismaximus]

mysterybox;953314 wrote: Lowes Bucket Head wetvac, I just suck it all up after no water...

So you drain the sump then suck up the junk? Just wanted to be clear.

 

[ralph atl]

Curtismaximus;953323 wrote: So you drain the sump then suck up the junk? Just wanted to be clear.

Drain 90% first, then wetvac

 

[curtismaximus]

mysterybox;953381 wrote: Drain 90% first, then wetvac

OK cool, thanks for the info.