New Tank/Initial dosing

[MIReefer78]

Quik question on dosing. Tank is new, been running about 2 months. So far I just have a couple clownfish, a couple snails and a cleaner shrimp. Haven't had time to do much more with it lately. I've got the Neptune DOS/DDR.

I started the tank with live sand and dry rock. I initially dosed the tank by hand to get the levels right. I thought about about starting to dose maybe 1-2 ml's a day or some small nominal amount to 1. Check to make sure the equipment is working properly and 2. Maintain Alkalinity. The tank does consume a small amount of ALK, although not much. I do see a tiny bit of coralline algae showing up so I though this might help promote that as well. So, the question is is this a bad idea considering my extremely low demand at this point? I don't want to throw everything out of whack

 

[Cory]

Im not sure I understand the question. You want to dose 1ml per day via apex? Id say thats fine. Just check alk daily and adjust as needed.

 

[MIReefer78]

Yeah pretty much. Mostly just as an equipment check and to promote coralline algae. The demand is very low so I just picked a small amount to start. Plus the DOS/DDR is a new toy and can't stand not playing with it anymore. Haha

 

[Cory]

Yeah pretty much. Mostly just as an equipment check and to promote coralline algae. The demand is very low so I just picked a small amount to start. Plus the DOS/DDR is a new toy and can't stand not playing with it anymore. Haha

Haha i know. Generally the higher the alk gets the more they demand. You could also set it up to dose a few times a day if you dilute it more with water.

 

[Greybeard]

I'm in the same boat. New system, going with Core7 for alk/calc/trace... starting dose will be LOW.

I'm going to be dosing straight RO/DI water into a measured beaker for the rest of this week, until I can start to trust my CoralBox dosing pump... then, on to the Core7

Oh, you might look into a Hanna Alk dKH checker. I just ordered one.. BRS did a video on the thing last week, looks like a good way to get consistent, accurate Alk readings for this sort of thing.

 

[XNavyDiver]

Quik question on dosing. Tank is new, been running about 2 months. So far I just have a couple clownfish, a couple snails and a cleaner shrimp. Haven't had time to do much more with it lately. I've got the Neptune DOS/DDR.

I started the tank with live sand and dry rock. I initially dosed the tank by hand to get the levels right. I thought about about starting to dose maybe 1-2 ml's a day or some small nominal amount to 1. Check to make sure the equipment is working properly and 2. Maintain Alkalinity. The tank does consume a small amount of ALK, although not much. I do see a tiny bit of coralline algae showing up so I though this might help promote that as well. So, the question is is this a bad idea considering my extremely low demand at this point? I don't want to throw everything out of whack

I'm in the same boat. I need to increase the demand for alk. Just too few corals at the moment.