Awesome. SO would I just follow the instructions, but dose the daily amount all at once in a high flow area rather than it being spread out thru out the day?
I dose mine in between my skimmer and return area in the "bubble trap". All at once. Do you know what you consumption is?
Yes, when I was manually dosing I did it all at once. Start out with recommended amounts and test and adjust based on tests.
I honestly do not know. I am just getting into corals. My ALK so far has be steady between 8 and 8.5
Perfect, and thank you.
Yeah, that is really the whole point in this convo, is to help me figure this out. I was not planning on dosing yet, Just needed to know if manual was possible. So for now, the plan is to check ALK daily over a 3 day period to see what my tank consumes, then go from there. Most of my corals are soft, but I do have 2 favia's, and one acro. Does this plan make sense to you.
Water change schedule? Coralline growing? 2 favias and one acro are not going to put much of a dent in your alk, calc, mag. Soft corals will use some trace elements but I doubt youll notice at all.
I do a 25% WC every other weekend, and yes plenty of coralline growing everywhere. I have several zoa's, a toadstool, and a couple mushrooms. As well a very healthy CUC, and a skunk cleaner shrimp.
Keep an eye on the consumption. If it starts to drop more then your w/c supplies then start dosing. I had issues with the w/c schedule on mine it was causing nitrate and phosphate to be too low so I backed off weekly went to every 2-3 weeks and that was borderline needing to dose then stuff started to grow and dosing became needed.
Ahh, I see, so as little as everything is right now, I am probably fine. I will do my 3 day thing to see what it looks like, but what you are saying makes absolute sense to me.
Thank you for the help. I am new to corals in general, and just got my first ever SPS last week. So this side of things is very foreign to me.
with that low demand stocking it’s plausible that your 25% water change might hold for a while….
