Dosing advice

[NorwichReefer]

Just a question regarding alkalinity dosing using a dosing pump. I'm fairly new to using a dose and I have my doser set to dose 36ml of fauna marin alk spread out over 24 equal doses dosed every hour. Is this OK? I'm worried about alk swings and thinking maybe I should dose the majority of it during my 12hr photo period when corals are actively consuming it. What do you guys with dosers do?

 

[Doctorgori]

I split my dose up, but I doubt 1x per day is wrong...many ways to skin a cat, I’m not sure if it even matters much

 

[TooMuchDog]

Just a question regarding alkalinity dosing using a dosing pump. I'm fairly new to using a dose and I have my doser set to dose 36ml of fauna marin alk spread out over 24 equal doses dosed every hour. Is this OK? I'm worried about alk swings and thinking maybe I should dose the majority of it during my 12hr photo period when corals are actively consuming it. What do you guys with dosers do?

I'm not sure what fauna marin alk actually is. But if it is soda ash like I use then it will raise the ph so it can be helpful to dose it at night to keep ph up.

 

[Uncle99]

Every hour, That’s fine, just remember not to dose CA at the same time.
I dose like you on the hour, dosing CA, I do on the half.

Some like to dose Alk only when lights out, to help PH stay stable, but, I have not seen much variance in PH in my DT.

When dosing on the hour, no matter when I test, I get 150ppm, so super stable.

Keep MG on point or you’ll get varied results.