Dosing Question

[Diazreeflife]

I purchased all my dosing equipment to include a three pump dosing unit and 2 part dosing from BRS.

My tank is 6 months old and I do a 10% water change every 14 days. For the past month I have performed parameter checks for Alk Cal and Mag right before a water change then a few days after and my parameters.

Minutes before water change
Alk- 8.4
Cal- 440
Mag- 1370

A few days after
Alk-9.4
Cal- 450
Mag- 1400

As you can see my parameters are still good before and after water change, so my question is what should I dose if anything?

David Diaz

 

[Eric B]

Your tank probably just doesn't have enough stuff using up the Alk, Cal & Mag currently. I would just keep monitoring as you add more stuff to the tank and then start dosing as needed.

 

[mike007]

Your tank probably just doesn't have enough stuff using up the Alk, Cal & Mag currently. I would just keep monitoring as you add more stuff to the tank and then start dosing as needed.

This is true but as you add corals you want to try to keep parameters stable as possible without swings in alk. and ca. If you add sps coral this is real important. That's where a dosing pump will help.You already know your daily loss so you can go to the brs reef calculator and determine the amount to dose each day to maintain.

 

[Reefing Madness]

Doesn't look like you need to do anything, all your params are in order both before and after.