Doser questions for you pros.

[Pensacola Reefer]

I have been out of the hobby for awhile and now i see these dosers are popular.I am a newb when it comes to them so i am curious what are most of you guys and gals dosing with them. I love the idea but need to learn first.I will be setting up 240 mixed reef soon.Thanks for any help.

 

[mike550]

I have been out of the hobby for awhile and now i see these dosers are popular.I am a newb when it comes to them so i am curious what are most of you guys and gals dosing with them. I love the idea but need to learn first.I will be setting up 240 mixed reef soon.Thanks for any help.

Welcome to R2R!

Not sure how much experience you have etc, and it sounds like you’re trying to get yourself organized before starting. Great idea!

As to Dosers I have a four head doser. I use two for dosing Alk and Ca. The other two are for convenience (and spares) so I use them for dosing NoPox and Reef Energy. That said, Ive only had my tank for ten months and started using a doser about a month ago. Prior to that I was doing everything by hand and measuring parameters every three days. The big benefit was that I developed a feel for my tank and nothing ever went too far from my target levels.

My point is that I view a doser as a “nice to have” and not a “must have” when starting a tank. For a 240 I’m guessing at some point you’ll want or need a doser.

Good luck!

 

[Pensacola Reefer]

Thank you for the feedback.I was along the same idea as it being much easier for some dosing that i wont have to do manually and try not to forget.I love the idea of them and i was already looking at the 4 head and maybe even a few extra heads in case of a failure.You nailed it as for me trying to do ALOT of homework and get it right the first time around.Any help on a skimmer would be nice too.My old E.T.S.S.800 i dont believe it will be sufficent for the 240.

 

[mike550]

Thank you for the feedback.I was along the same idea as it being much easier for some dosing that i wont have to do manually and try not to forget.I love the idea of them and i was already looking at the 4 head and maybe even a few extra heads in case of a failure.You nailed it as for me trying to do ALOT of homework and get it right the first time around.Any help on a skimmer would be nice too.My old E.T.S.S.800 i dont believe it will be sufficent for the 240.

For my doser I looked at the Kamoer, GHL, Neptune DOS (even though I don’t own an APEX) but finally settled on the Ecotech Versa. I bought it as a 4 pack with the base station because I liked how it was modular. If a pump goes bad, I can just swap it out with another one and plug it into the base station. I know it’s expensive but so far so goodl

Theres a poll going on right now about skimmers. You can probably search for it. I think the poll is showing Red Sea as the top choice.

 

[Pensacola Reefer]

Thanks again for the information on the dosers,i dont mind the money side i like to get what i pay for,plus i dont want to do it 2 or 3 times trying to get it right.I found it costs even more to do it wrong. lol