Calcium and Alkalinity dosing

[cward]

Back in the day I used a calcium reactor and topped off with kalk at night using my kalk reactor. This worked pretty well for me so I don’t want to reinvent the wheel, but we’ve had new equipment introduced to the hobby. I have an Apex pro and was thinking about getting a Trident and a DOS to dose Calcium and Alk. My water volume is 160g and this will mostly be an SPS tank. I’m doing auto daily water changes of 1-1/2 gallons right now and manually dosing a two part. So, should I stick with what I know or dive in to the new tech?

My old tank

 

[Reefing102]

I remember that from back in the day! Wasn’t your tank a TOTM at one point?

I’m currently dosing All For Reef but have been strongly considering switching to a calcium reactor when funds permit. You may need a CARX later but if you end up needing to dose other stuff the dos would be nice (such as nitrates, phosphate, etc)

 

[griss]

I’m dosing BRS supplements and dripping kalk. I’ve got an underpowered Ca Reactor for the upgrade. Plan on using that and supplementing with additives as/if needed.

I tend to go old school with 90s/early 2000s tech & techniques.