What's your alk/ca consumption rate?

[joshrules123456]

30 gal display, 35 gal sump/fuge, 3 3"sps frags, 1 1"sps frag, 4x4"brain, blasto frag, frogspawn frag.(thats all my calcium consumers aside from snails) I drip 1 gallon of 1.5 tsp/gal kalk. per day and it matches my demand perfectly.

 

[ROR]

180G display, heavily stocked SPS dominant.

Alk, Randy's #2: 920ml daily
Ca, Randy's #1 x 1.5 concentation: 380ml daily

Both dosed with Profilux 20 times a day.

 

[DaveJ]

BRS product.. mixed to their specs.

300G Tank, heavy SPS, LPS makeup and several large clams.

400ML of Alk and Ca per day and about half a gallon or so of Mg once every other week to maintain Mg at 1400.

 

[jdallred]

75 gal (90 gal total volume) mixed reef with 35 sps corals (8 lg colonies, 11 med-lg colonies, 7 small colonies, & 9 frag size), 10 LPS corals (2 med Euphyllia, 1 med Caulastrea, 4 med-lg Fungia, 3 small Acans) and I dose 76 mL of B-Ionic 2 part per day.

 

[Rodrigo_BG]

Randy 2-part, 65g sps only, moderate stocked, ca= 50ml/day, alk = 150ml/day

 

[FiReBReTHa]

Post up FTS of your tank if possible!

I gotta see whats going on with my tank.

I am dosing 10ml of each per day
BRS p1

 

[dmorel]

~300ml a day of BRS two part...

190 gallon display, aprox 300 gallon total water volume with frag tank. Pretty SPS heavily dominated tank.

 

[rob.mwpropane]

.6 gal of kalk daily on a 29 gal moderately stocked, mixed tank.

 

[rholguin]

On my 95g sps dominated heavily stocked. I dose ESV b-ionic 2 part. I dose alk 10ml and ca 40ml. I do weely water changes,and I use dd h2o salt.

 

[driftin]

Driftin: Which product are you using? How much are you adding? Have you checked your Mg level recently?

I think I just underestimated how much my 70 gallon tank could consume. I go through 10 gallons of kalk a week, but still need to supplement with 2-part daily. I thought I might have bad test kits, or precipitation, but now I'm thinking I just under estimated my load.

 

[Logzor]

Dosing 180mL of each recipe 1 daily, heavily stocked stony 90g.

 

[OrrG]

120mL of each with BRS 2 part on a moderately stocked 90

 

[dixiedog]

So far, my tank consumes nothing which is not replenished with a 10% weekly WC.

My tank is a 29 with six smallish SPS, a frogspawn, three smallish acans, a small favia, and four fish. Lots of snails.

My big three params come in at about 430, 9.6, and 1250 - week in and week out. I test right before each water change.

I keep waiting for the day to come when my 10% WC's don't keep up with the demand, but so far that has not happened.

 

[arresife]

Thanks for posting . I want to follw up this thread.

 

[Oldude]

I dose around 1200 ML per 24 hours. My system is roughly 700 gal (400 gal sps display) and I use Randy's 2 part recipe #2.

 

[sjfishguy]

Oldude, why not have a calcium reactor? Its seems once you get into large systems, dosing two part just doesn't seem practical. Just wondering why you chose two part and not a ca reactor?