How many Times a day do you dose?

[atomic081]

Im in the process of tweaking my dosing system right now (apex doser) and its very loud. Im considering running it from 3am to 5am when we are asleep and shutting it off the rest of the day. I know it will spike a little bit, but generally it cant be any worse than people who manually dose daily.

What are your daily dosing schedules?

 

[BlennyTime]

I dose kalk hourly, 2 part a few times a day and AB+ once a day in combination with spot feeding the corals.

 

[WIReefer]

Depending on what it is I dose throughout the entire day just to avoid those swings. I only do that because I have a good chunk of sticks depends on the type of corals you have as well

 

[Reefer40b]

I dose 10 times per day, I just spread it out every couple hours or so.. alternate between ca and alk. I don't own an apex doser but are you sure it should be so loud, maybe someone else could chime in..

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

How much alkalinity do you need to dose in dKH per day?

 

[atomic081]

How much alkalinity do you need to dose in dKH per day?

1050g system, Right now im dosing 20,000 Ml a day of Kalk. My calcium reactor is dosing 90,000 Ml.
Im still working my way up to what I think I will need as of now.




EDIT: .3 dKH a day is my Alk consumption

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

EDIT: .3 dKH a day is my Alk consumption

Is that 0.3 dKH per day? Is that the kalk only, or the reactor too?

I think that can be dosed over 2 h with kalk without issue, but it might make sense to switch to a lower pH product (sodium carbonate or bicarbonate) so that the sump is not seeing so much concentrated kalkwasser.

 

[40g Nano]

Lol I dose 2ml of calcium in my nano by hand every day