Triton Dosing and SPS going pale?

[LPSpsCloWn]

Hi


I need to some advice please. I recently have started to dose Triton other Method in my quarantine tank. I have about fourteen pieces of corals in there of varying size some large and some no so large. I could not keep up with changing water as i was using 0.3-0.4dhk a day. Its about 80L of water in there and have adequate lighting in there.



The issue i am running into is that I have been dosing one week now by hand using Tritons recommended dosage of 1ml per 100L. Which seems to be holding my alkalinity stable at 7.6-7.9 depending on dosing times. Only issue is that i am dosing by hand twice a day and sometime not consistent times of day.



phosphate are a little high at 0.05ppm but that should not be an issue not a colour change issue anyway. Nitrates are 5ppm.



not sure what the issue could be.



I am thinking of dosing by dosing pump as twice a day might be a bit much and the small swing could be affecting them?


But before when i was doing water change the DHK would swing from 6.5 all the way to 8 depending on how frequently i was able to get water changes done and they were just fine with it. Not sure what has happened all of sudden.


The other issue is that I would have to buy another £400 GHL doser 2.1 which i was looking to avoid as I have one already. The problem is that the doser downstairs is dosing vodka so cant bring that on my quarantine tank with the corals. The corals are in my quarantine tanks for the moment while i am dealing with high nitrates in the display tank.



Is it worth me risking and buying a JAEBO dosing unit? I hear mixed reviews with these things from inaccurate dosing all the to dying. I don't mind dying but it getting stuck on on. Will cause me a big headache. I have some rare corals that I dont want to die.



Might just go back to water changes.

 

[bertoni]

I would try water changes for a while. They do things that supplementing can't, like removing any buildups.

 

[dkeller_nc]

Your phosphates may actually be a bit low. Depending on where the corals came from, the previous owner and/or importer may have kept them in considerably higher phosphate and/or nitrate concentrations, and SPS corals typically adapt relatively slowly to a sharply reduced nutrient load.

From the standpoint of dosing, twice a day should be adequate to keep fluctuations within +/- 0.5 dKH, which should be fine. Personally, I'd use sodium bicarbonate and calcium chloride solutions (DIY), since I think the Triton supplements contain other elements. Without relatively frequent ICP tests, one wouldn't know what the levels of those trace elements would climb to, and some of them would be toxic at high levels.