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shields
05/14/2016, 06:22 PM
Need help with how to dose.....

Just moved and re-setup my tank. 120 gal DT with 30g sump and 15g refugium. Plenty of LR and LS.
My livestock is: a bunch of snails/ crabs, clown pair, six line wrasse, foxface, coral beauty, sea star, bangai, (and some kind of algae eating fish I forgot the name).
As far as consumption: I have a bunch of LR with coralline coming along nicely and a spa frag and mushroom frag. As of now, I of corse plan to add more.

Bought a doser but never used it before I moved. Going to start using it now. I have a 4 channel doser and B-ionic two part as well as BRS kalkwasser (someone gave me after the fact) I realize I shouldn't run the 2 part and kalkwasser together. I'll probably just stick to the 2 part. My test results from today are:

(I also included some pictures. I frequently have a hard time reading and decided the results on the Red Sea cards.)

Test 5/12
PH: 8.1
NH3/NH4: 0ish
Nitrate: 3
Nitrite: 0
Ca: -
Mg: -
KH: -
Salinity: -



Test 5/14
PH: 8.2
NH3/NH4: 0.1 ?
Nitrate: 3 ?
Nitrite: 0
Ca: 355
Mg:1300
KH: 7.7
Salinity: 1.026

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leviburns89
05/16/2016, 08:43 PM
Phosphates???

Your levels look good, I would probably try and get calcium up to 400 if you want the best results.

Why do you want to dose? You shouldn't need to dose for quite a while. It takes a lot of coral to deplete what already comes with your salt mix.

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Mark9
05/17/2016, 06:19 AM
Check out this video. They are using the BRS kit, but the concepts are the same.
He explains how to dial in your consumption starting around 3:25.

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