Question about auto dosing and water changes.

[stanleo]

Do you guys who use auto dosing for alkalinity, calcium and magnesium turn your dosing pump off for a stretch of time when you perform water changes?

 

[bday1335]

I do not, with 10% water change, I see no dip in either ALK CA or MG. Dosing continues as normal. But that is just me, maybe some people do.

 

[Super Fly]

I do not and I do manual WC

 

[RuuToo]

I do auto water change and auto dosing (I have all the Neptune things), and when I switched to Red Sea purple bucket salt I did have to dial back the dosing a bit with the higher levels. It’s really going to depend how different your fresh water is to the tank

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

I do auto water change and auto dosing (I have all the Neptune things), and when I switched to Red Sea purple bucket salt I did have to dial back the dosing a bit with the higher levels. It’s really going to depend how different your fresh water is to the tank

That sounds cool id love to see a picture of your set up, im sure someone can get some ideas from your experience..

 

[Greg P]

I time my WCs to have everything out and back in between doses.

 

[Dolphins18]

I do auto water change and auto dosing (I have all the Neptune things), and when I switched to Red Sea purple bucket salt I did have to dial back the dosing a bit with the higher levels. It’s really going to depend how different your fresh water is to the tank

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Red sea salt has traditionally given me higher calc alk and mg values, I know the values are all listed online and are meant to be similar but red sea outdoes its competitors in this aspect and although I only recently started using this salt, I will need to turn off my apex dosers if I do large changes over 30%, but usually I only do 10-15%

 

[RuuToo]

That sounds cool id love to see a picture of your set up, im sure someone can get some ideas from your experience..

I’m actually about to do a mini build thread for my quarantine. I’m using the outflow from my auto water changes to do an ultra low maintenance coral qt/isolation that gets a 50% water change per day and needs nothing but heat flow and light. I’m just finishing it up now

 

[Tastee]

I don’t change dosing when I do a water change. I run my tanks on the Aquaforest products and target their standard parameters so dosing during a WC doesn’t change anything. I perform an AWC over 24 hours of ~15% water volume in each tank (2 of) every 6 weeks and leave dosing running 24x7 during that process.

 

[Waters]

My dosing is never shut off or changed, even with AWCs, turning off sump for maintenance, etc.