Dosing failure

[Christian Gomez]

Good morning guys so I had my jabao dosing pump fail on me ! My calcium is at 530 and all is at 9.2 should I just let it drop naturally or do a water change ? Seems like the dosing pump was a slow drip into the system so everything was not all dosed at once a period of maybe 3-4 days

 

[sfin52]

Good morning guys so I had my jabao dosing pump fail on me ! My calcium is at 530 and all is at 9.2 should I just let it drop naturally or do a water change ? Seems like the dosing pump was a slow drip into the system so everything was not all dosed at once a period of maybe 3-4 days

Well that's a good thing. How long will it take to go down to your levels

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Those levels are fine. If you want them lower, just let them decline.

 

[Christian Gomez]

Well that's a good thing. How long will it take to go down to your levels

I dose 15ml of calcium and 15 of alk maybe a week or so my guess

 

[Christian Gomez]

Those levels are fine. If you want them lower, just let them decline.

Thank you I’ll let it decline on its own

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

What caused the failure ? Did it dose by itself ?

 

[Christian Gomez]

What caused the failure ? Did it dose by itself ?

After dosing it kept dripping it was a slow drip maybe 1 drop per 2 min give or take
I noticed when the alk and calcium container was Lowe then usual

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

back siphon?

 

[SliceGolfer]

Do you have check valves in place and is your doser higher than your supplement containers?

 

[Christian Gomez]

back siphon?

Unsure to be honest ?

 

[Christian Gomez]

Do you have check valves in place and is your doser higher than your supplement containers?

I didn’t know check valves were a option for such little hose ? And the doser is on top of the dosing container

 

[vetteguy53081]

do nothing. Numbers will drop on its' own.
may be a good time also to give doser a little cleaning

 

[Christian Gomez]

do nothing. Numbers will drop on its' own.
may be a good time also to give doser a little cleaning

I order new dosing caps it’s a jabao so they were easy to get

 

[Christian Gomez]

I might be getting new dosing pumps but still unsure