Ok so I just got setup with 2 drews dosing pumps ( 1.6 ml per min) and added them to my reef keeper lite. I mixed teh solutions as instructed on brs and began dosing. It quickly became apparent that my tank was requiring teh alk pump to be on for 6 min every hour where as my ca pump only needed 2 min per hour. I thought this sounded out of whack so I contacted BRS. THey are very helpful but im not sure the advice im getting is correct, so im running it by all of you jedi masters. THEy instructed me to turn off all dosing pumps for 4 days total. they said wait 24 hours after turning the pumps off and them measure your levels. I did this and got these results. Ca was at 500, ALk was at 7 DKH. Mg was at 1400. I just took my levels on day 4 and now DKH is at 5.3 and ca is at about 480. THese levels indicate that my tank does indeed use far more alk than ca. BRS said I should be using the same amount of each additive in terms of soda ash and calcium chloride. When I look at the usage on teh calculator I will need to use about 5X as much Soda ash as Ca to bring my levels back to where they were. SO i guess im using 5X as much DKH as CA.. what am I DOing wrong? I dont think teh dosing pump will last long at 5 min per hour and on top of that from everything I have read the dosing of each should be at least close and not 5 to 1 .
2 part dosing help
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Aquaph8
Love The Fish
I agree with BRS. I would manually dose to get to where you want to be at and then set your pumps to keep up rather that try to get your pumps to play catch up (hope that sense), but yeah IME you should be pretty close.
fragmatic
retired reefer
What kind of rocks are in your tank? ..how old is this tank? ... it sounds like you may have a calc source that is binding out the alk. If I understand you correctly.
I dose Reef Fusion parts 1 & 2 as instructed and it is working perfectly test after test. I like them because they are clear and do not settle out. Also, I always mix all my dose products 1/1 with RODI so I can double the dose quantity which means I'm doubling the accuracy.
My Reef Fusion parts 1 & 2 are getting low and I have purchased the Brightwell A & B and have it in the wings per a friend's recommendation.... we will see how I like them in a few weeks.
I dose Reef Fusion parts 1 & 2 as instructed and it is working perfectly test after test. I like them because they are clear and do not settle out. Also, I always mix all my dose products 1/1 with RODI so I can double the dose quantity which means I'm doubling the accuracy.
My Reef Fusion parts 1 & 2 are getting low and I have purchased the Brightwell A & B and have it in the wings per a friend's recommendation.... we will see how I like them in a few weeks.
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