Alk Cal & Mag Testing.

[AJreefs]

With it being so important to prevent swings in a tank ,kits only being accurate with in a half a DKH, how are you more experienced reefers ensuring stability?

 

[ritter6788]

Frequent testing, dosing pumps, not making any drastic changes. Small changes only and test, test, test again.

 

[pickupman66]

Agreed with Ritter. I use a Calcium reactor and once its dialed in, for the most part it is set it and forget it. I recently changed the media in it so I am dialing it back in. I test every other day anf if stable, move to weekly. if stable, monthly.

 

[mcarroll]

Dosers or reactors will certainly do it, but a set of kits on par with (or equal to) Salifert's (what I use) and a daily dosing regime will do the trick too.

Of course testing to know your daily consumption rate is required to enable that. (FWIW, brightwell's supplements are the only ones I know with instructions that are actually complete enough to get someone to this stage. Can save you a lot of extra testing if you follow their instructions....which I'll leave the finding of on their website to you.) Much, much better than just testing and using a reef calculator every time like most DIY sources advise.

-Matt

 

[landlord]

With it being so important to prevent swings in a tank ,kits only being accurate with in a half a DKH, how are you more experienced reefers ensuring stability?

Weekly water changes (religiously), monthly carbon and gfo changes. and overskimming. Also I do not will not and shall not overfeed fish.