Experts help on dosing the tank

amdp9 · Apr 17, 2024

I upgraded my hobby to bigger and complete setup. Only thing I haven’t setup is dosing the tank. What is better dosing to maintain better levels and growth.
A) Individually dose each nutrient like Calcium/KH/Magnesium?
B) Get all in one like ALL FOR REEF stuff which have everything ?

My tank is 105g and sump is 45g which option will be better and also how much quantity to dose daily ?

Pistondog · Apr 17, 2024

I started with a 2 part, b-ionic (1 year), equal doses of each. Switched to triton (5 years), 4 components equal doses of each. Now use all for reef. Still have to massage alk or calcium every month or so.
YOur choice. Until you get some consumption with corals, you may be able to keep,up with water changes.

Oldreefer44 · Apr 17, 2024

I would answer your question but the "expert" qualification pretty much disqualifies me. I have used AFR since it came out as well as Kalk as a base instead of 2 or 3 part. Then dose a few other micro-nutrients based off of testing. You can then easily adjust as things grow and consumption of some things increases. Have found it easy to maintain stability which I believe to be the key to long term success.

amdp9 · Apr 25, 2024

I am very much confused about dosing the tank, Alkalinity dropped from 9 DKH to 5DKH and calcium dropped from 450 to 250. I am trying to find a balance on BRS soda ash part 1 and part 2 calcium. I am dosing 12oz Kh and 12 OZ calcium daily. Only major change I did from last week to this week was I added fine crushed coral to the tank since I had no sand or substrate in my tank. How do I fix this ?
Should I switch to All for reef instead due to trace elements?
If so How much should I dose daily to get back to my levels?
Rest of the levels are fine
Alkalinity I checked with Red Sea
Calcium I tested with Salifert
In the tank I only have 4 fish maroon clown/purple tang/Royal gamma and clown goby. And 70 heads of hammer corals/ mushrooms and GSP
Please guide me I shall appreciate it

amdp9 · Apr 25, 2024

Second bottle for KH is in the cabinet can’t take pic

scotty333 · Jun 23, 2024

Pistondog said:
I started with a 2 part, b-ionic (1 year), equal doses of each. Switched to triton (5 years), 4 components equal doses of each. Now use all for reef. Still have to massage alk or calcium every month or so.
YOur choice. Until you get some consumption with corals, you may be able to keep,up with water changes.

Your dosing 1,2 and 1a +1b , I was told a+b are both kh buffers so just use 1a

Glowurm · Jun 24, 2024

amdp9 said:
I am very much confused about dosing the tank, Alkalinity dropped from 9 DKH to 5DKH and calcium dropped from 450 to 250. I am trying to find a balance on BRS soda ash part 1 and part 2 calcium. I am dosing 12oz Kh and 12 OZ calcium daily. Only major change I did from last week to this week was I added fine crushed coral to the tank since I had no sand or substrate in my tank. How do I fix this ?
Should I switch to All for reef instead due to trace elements?
If so How much should I dose daily to get back to my levels?
Rest of the levels are fine
Alkalinity I checked with Red Sea
Calcium I tested with Salifert
In the tank I only have 4 fish maroon clown/purple tang/Royal gamma and clown goby. And 70 heads of hammer corals/ mushrooms and GSP
Please guide me I shall appreciate it

No expert, but you will need to continually monitor how much is being used and adjust accordingly, i guess my point being there isn't really a right answer to the question being posed.