Ph/alk/mag/ca Help please!!!

[LesPoissons]

Im overhwhelmed with info/options.
What is the easiest way to maintain these parameters? I have a 220g tank. Right now I maintain with reef buffer and liquid ca and mag- all hand dosed but life has gotten busy and its gotten missed more often than dosed so there are swings. When i go to correct the elapsed doses, my ca bottle reads that it cant be used for larger corrections and I need a different ca, and that I cant dose ca and reef buffer for alk the same day, etc. Lol. Ive researched kalkwasser, 2 part, 3 part etc additives. I dont want to worry about a huge ph spike, I cant do kalk in the top off bc its a custom build and cant be mixed or easily emptied. etc. Can someone break it down how to do this as simply as possible where i dont need to mess with it so often? I dont have any other dosing equipment or an apex etc so please be budget mindful with suggestions. Im comfortable buying dosing pumps but I dont know if kalk can go through a pump, which pumps, if you can run 3 addtiives at once, which additives to buy for maintaince vs correction, how to maintain normal ph etc. I feel like I have read more than I should have and am now more confused.

My tank is a 4 year old 220g mixed reef.
It evapoartes about 2g a day.
Ca is used about 1.5 mg/L per day
Alk aprox 0.15 per day
Mag between 4.5-7 per day
Ph is maintained 8.2-8.3

Thank you for your help!!!!

 

[LiveWire]

Sounds like you may be a bit overwhelmed. If you had a smaller tank i would suggest using the all for reef with a single head doser and call it a day. Although for your size system that would get expensive fairly quickly. A calcium reactor could be a huge time saver for you with that size system but the upfront cost is a bit on the high side so it would depend on how much you are looking to spend in order to get easy results.

To be budget mindful you could also take some two part and a coral box, bubble magus, or Jebao 4 head doser which are inexpensive but reliable for the most part and then upgrade at a later time. Looks like you already have your dose amounts down so connecting a doser to some two part would be an inexpensive way to make your life easier at the present time IMO.

You can also implement an inexpensive Kalk reactor connected to your top off water as your mixing vessil to mix your Kalk two little fishes makes a great one that I am sure all of have used at some point or another. although I myself would not chase PH. If you can keep the big 3 parameters stable where they need to be and things are happy I myself would not worry if the PH was 7.8. If you can get it to 8.3 easily then by all means do so but if not you may do more bad than good constantly trying to get it higher.