Out of town dosing!

makingbubbles · Mar 27, 2015

I have a seasonal job that requires me to travel for work. Some times I'm gone for more than a months time. Right now I'm relying on my wife and neighbor to take care of my reef tank. I would like to take some of the hassle from them. I am hoping some of you guys can help me. I'm looking for a way to dose from my Android phone. I like the idea of using a doser but would like to be able to make cages from a far. I figured I can go two routs. A controler hooked up to doser or a doser that can be controler from afar. I just want to see what's out there with the best user interface for dosing by phone. Can you guys help? Pics or screenshots of the user interface will help too. Thanks.

JOKER · Mar 28, 2015

I would say a controller would be best, but you would need to test weekly or bi weekly IMO. Can control all functions of tank with controller. I highly recommend one!!

makingbubbles · Mar 28, 2015

I can still have someone test for me but my wife is lost when I tell her to add this and that.

makingbubbles · Mar 28, 2015

Which has the better user interface? Neptune or reef keeper?

hybridazn · Mar 28, 2015

I can't speak for the reef keeper but apex fusion is very user friendly and simple to read and set up.

JOKER · Mar 28, 2015

Im an apex user also. Really satisfied with mine. I am not using fusion though. Still pretty easy to setup. I set my dosers to dose 12 times a day and if I need to adjust can just add or subtract time. Calcium odd hours and alk even.

makingbubbles · Mar 28, 2015

What brand of doser R u using?

JOKER · Mar 28, 2015

I have dosers from brs. They work pretty good. Have one of the drew also and it works fine too. I use 1.1 ml.

makingbubbles · Mar 29, 2015

I need to dose 2.5 ml of alk a day and 5ml of mag weekly. My calcium stays constant (I think due to the hard water in my area). I also dose fuel Weekly.

Dan1789 · Mar 29, 2015

Get an apex and a couple brs 1.1 ml dosing pumps. I also work on the road and have my wife test parameters weekly. If the dosing needs adjusted I just get on my iPad and change the dosing times.

makingbubbles · Apr 1, 2015

Just ordered apex jr with 8 plug bar and two 1.1 dosing pumps. I also ordered the hydor top off controller but might send back and get tunze because of the reviews. Bye bye 600$

kuba · Apr 1, 2015

Haha Ya thats([emoji651]️) why I don't have a tank controller.

makingbubbles · Apr 14, 2015

Ok I have the brs 1.1 set up but the apex pump set up for dosing is the most confusing thing I have ever seen. Why can't it just be I need this pump on for this long. the fact that they want you to calculate all this stuff out is amazing. The room for error is wide.

makingbubbles · Apr 14, 2015

Ok found a calculator to work with programming dosing pumps in apex. Here's link Apex Dosing Program Generator
I was wondering how they did the math. In case you don't understand like I did the formula is (number of min of dosing per day)Ã—.60Ã·24=(your dose time per hour).

JOKER · Apr 14, 2015

You can set it up advanced and just say if time is 12:00 to 12:02 then on. I have my alk set up on even hours and cal odd hours. That makes it easier for me to keep stable, I can adjust as needed, say take away a minute here or there or add a few..

JOKER · Apr 14, 2015

My program. Works great for me.

Fallback OFF
Set OFF
If Time 02:00 to 02:01 Then ON
If Time 04:00 to 04:02 Then ON
If Time 06:00 to 06:01 Then ON
If Time 08:00 to 08:02 Then ON
If Time 10:00 to 10:01 Then ON
If Time 12:00 to 12:02 Then ON
If Time 14:00 to 14:01 Then ON
If Time 16:00 to 16:02 Then ON
If Time 18:00 to 18:01 Then ON
If Time 20:00 to 20:02 Then ON
If Time 22:00 to 22:01 Then ON
If Time 00:00 to 00:02 Then ON
If Temp > 82.0 Then OFF
Min Time 000:01 Then OFF
If pH > 08.55 Then OFF