how often do you dose calcium/alkilinity?

[romsoccer12]

i normally do the propper amount for my biocube once every 3 days and my test kits are reading normal but all corraline is dieing and things just dont look as good. going to the LFS to comfirm my tests. just wondering, how often do you guys put the propper amount of calcium/alkilinty into your tanks?

 

[hummermaniac88]

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[unbreakable]

depends on the amount that is being consumed. I dose 6 ml of ALK daily to stay at the same level, roughly at 8 DKH; 42 ml a week. I automate that with a bulk reef supply doser and my reef keeper elite. My calcium doesnt get depleted as fast and gets replenished with waterchanges.. don't need a doser for that yet.

maybe you have too much lighting and its dying because of that? any sudden changes in anything?

 

[VacavilleFC3S]

currently i have to does 1/2 tsp of baking soda every 24hrs.

this will end this week as i'm installing a calcium reactor

 

[Peter Eichler]

When I did two part I dosed daily. If your alkalinity drops below a certain point (6ish dKH) it can cause a mass die off of coraline. I'd also get a magnesium test and/or get that tested as well.

 

[OwenInAZ]

I dose daily to keep my kH at around 10 degrees and Ca at around 480-500 ppm

 

[drummereef]

I dose 2-part daily to my 40g. keeps my levels rock solid.

 

[HumbleLobster]

Daily for me as well. I dose by hand twice a day, once for alk, once for calc.

 

[Michael]

im constantly dosing calcium via a reactor, if my alk does drop low, which is rare then i use baking soda to raise it

 

[maroun.c]

was dosing 30 ml a day for moths till Alk and Ca started to drop upped that to 40 and now 50 ml per day.
It'simportant if people posting here would state ther tank size and corals.
mine is a 150 G with around 10 SPS corals (small to medium) and 3 clams also a frag tank is attached to the system holding around 30 G of water and around 20 small frags.

 

[unbreakable]

For me its a 75g with SPS corals, mostly small colonies and frags.. lots of coralline though

 

[Reef Bass]

My reef controller adds alkalinity, calcium and magnesium via dosing pumps every 6 hours (4 times a day) to my sps dominated tank.

 

[rando45]

it is best to test for such things before dosing so as to avoid overdosing

if your coralline is dying back, check your bulbs? how old are they? perhaps time to change them

 

[RRaider]

I have my pumps set to dose alk every 3 hours and cal every 4.

 

[Amoore311]

My tank uses up the equivalent of 10 ML Alk/Calc per day.

I try to dose daily, but if I miss a day then I just double the next day's dose.

 

[Toddrtrex]

For my 58 and 75 I dose 100 ml about 5 days a week (( skip a 2 days each week, mainly out of forgetting ))

 

[romsoccer12]

is 3ml every 3 days to much for a 29gal with a lot of sps/softies? ive been doing this constantly and started getting corraline growth, just got new t5 bulbs and it started to grow a lot more but than it all just started dieing. my test kit is now broken because my dog chewed it up from me leaving it out outside and i cant get a ride to my LFS for a while =(

 

[stanlalee]

eventually if your corals are growing you will be dosing daily even if its alternating calcium one day and alk the next. its the nature of a healthy reef. Early on or depending on what your keeping you can get by without dosing calcium just by using a good reef salt. I've never seen an established reef tank (over 6 months) decently stocked that didn't require daily or close to daily alkalinity buffering.

 

[stage3-s4]

I dose 5ml ml every 3 days or so I have a 20gallon with sofities

 

[mnml]

I dose 33ml of ALK and 42ml of CA daily via BRS doser. I dose half the amount at 12am and the other half at 9am.