What Tahiti said. Also i recommend getting a magnetic stirrer. It takes a while to fully dissolve and you can get a magnetic stirrer off amazon for $25 and let it do all the work. All-for-reef includes trace elements so if you were already dosing trace elements you won't need to anymore or you risk overdosing.
Dig in the powder a bit. They are usually buried in there with the scoop.
Yep, found it. Thank you all. That was helpful.
Key is to have your parameters where you want them before you start the AFR.
This is the problem I'm dealing with. I recently switched from Red Sea to all-for-reef. Ran it 5 ml per day (29 gallon tank but with rock and coral, it's closer to 25 or 26 gallons). ALK got up to 12 dkh, calcium at 460 and mag at 1380. Not crazy high but I'm trying to be in the 9/450/1350 range. I stopped dosing altogther. it's been over a week and nothing is budging. the corals aren't consuming anything but they are blooming and look great. It's the strangest thing.
My tank is predominantly a macroalgae/softie tank and I never dosed at all. I did a 7% or so water change weekly to make up elements plus I dosed a capful of Coral vite for trace elements. I use IO salt so I know that it's low on the big 3 compared to other salts but since the coral I had did not consume much it worked great. Now the tank is 8 years old and very stable because of maturity I am not doing as many water changes, about 5 gallons a month in an 80 gallon system. That is why I am starting All for Reef. I doubt that I am going to need very much, less than most folks.
Just start with a small dose and work your way up. The recommended starting dose is too high, unless you have a tank full of SPS. For example, I use only 6ml daily in my Reefer 300 G2 with mixed softies and LPS to maintain 8.5/430/1300.
That is my plan to start out with a small dose and maybe every other day. Do you know about how many gallons your tank is? My tank is also a mixed softie/LPS display.
Thank you, that was a very good video and it helped me understand why things worked the way I knew they did. I am weak in chemistry. Biology is where my strength is. He showed how the chemistry and biology worked together which is cool.
Theres a lot more interview videos worth watching. Also watch Dr Tim’s all-in-one from the same event MASNA
