how often do you dose calcium/alkilinity?

[romsoccer12]

i think im gonna start doing 1 ml everyday so its very constant

 

[SkyPapa]

8 times a day for cal and alk on staggered schedule about 200 ml of randy's 2 part alk and 125 ml of cal. Mag after a week or so manually.
120g and 40b display with med growth, 20g frag and sumps.

While on vacation for 2 weeks my alk doser clogged and alk fell to 5dkh.
Everything has almost completely recovered except for a purple encrusting monti. 2 separate pieces are 90% bleached.
Didn't seem to bother the coralline, lol.

Edit; I use the BRS dosers also. The clog was my fault, not the doser.

 

[cloak]

I mix 1 teaspoon Seachem reef builder to every five gallons of top off water. The float valve is on a timer, so every 8 hours the tank will get a dose. Keeps my alk, ph and SG steady, 9/8.3/1.025. I'm not dosing calcium right now. I use tap water and the coralline seems to grow pretty fast with that alone.

 

[troylee]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15424157#post15424157 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 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 =(

the new t'5s are the biggest contributer to your corraline die off.....it is very sensitve to changes in light.........try backing your lights off for a hour a day and then bring it back up slowly over a week or 2.....

 

[A.VOID]

all day everyday

 

[flamron]

I dose 110ml of randy's 2 part every day.

tank is a 75g - 6-8" Derasa and too many SPS to count. Some are rather large, majority of them are around 2-4" though, with numerous frags.

Run my calcium at 410-430 and Alk at around 8.4-9.0 dkh

 

[sue711]

I have a 20 gallon, with 10 gallon sump. Currently my tank is holding 2 medium LPS (frogspawn, and hammer each about 5 inches long), 3 montipora of the scrolling variety (2 are small frags, one is a larger cup about 3 x 3 inches), 3 acropora (2 small frags, and one larger 5 inch branching) Dendro family of 15 heads, and coco worm, 3 halimeda plants, and all rocks are covered in coralline algae. I try to keep my DKH between 9 - 10, and Ca between 425-450. I dose by hand daily, am and pm, usually 7cc of Bionic each dose. Some days my Ca is ok, so then I only dose 1/4 tsp of baked baking soda once or twice as needed. I like to test daily before I determine my additions, but I suspect that after I get more experience with my tank's needs, I will test only weekly, but add my 2 part on predetermined daily schedule.

 

[connecticut cichlids]

I run 2 BRS dosers one for calcium, and one for alk. Everyday @ 9:00 am, dose 15 ml of calcium. Every night, @ 9:00 pm, dose 15 ml of alk....tank is 75g, 20g sump...few sps, and soft corals.. Lots of purple rock!

 

[mg426]

90 MLs of Randys homemade two part/day via BRS dosing pumps. 125 gallon mixed reef.

 

[DT's_Reef]

I use a Profilux doser so it doses once each hour, both calcium and alkalinity. One of the best pieces of equipment I've purchased. The levels are extremely stable once dialed in.

Prior to the Profilux, it was a yo-yo.

I also have a kalk reactor which adds via an auto replenisher (Tunze Osmolator).

 

[UWUALineman]

Daily 1oo mL Alk and Calc
120G with predominantly SPS, 2 clams, considerable coraline coverage.
Moved to calcium reactor to automate this.