Safety net for two part (or triton / ATI / aquaforest)?

[Reefpharmer]

Hi gang,
I am considering setting up a simpler reef and was looking at the ATI Pro Essentials. One of the issues I cannot get past is how to set up a safety net in case the doser gets stuck. The bottles they sell are quite concentrated (and even if they werent), if the doser gets stuck on, it can cause a crash.
Do you have any sort of safety net? Thanks!
FWIW I have a calcium reactor and CAN use that, but this hobby makes me want to try new things all the time.

 

[Copingwithpods]

I do 2 part with no safety net, both are 2 litre reseviors so any Doser gets stuck on it will 100% wipe everything out. All my trust is in my dosing pumps and their built in safety features. Same with my ato.

You could have a very small resevior that you manually top off every now and then. Also you can have your dosers on a timer that will be one for 1 minute, the one minute your Doser is working. I tried this with mine and it didn't work as mine drift time wise, dosing later and later each day unless I log into the app every now and then.

 

[Reefpharmer]

That seems like a risky move. I know many people use two part. Would monitoring ph and having a shutoff above a certain level work?

 

[Copingwithpods]

That seems like a risky move. I know many people use two part. Would monitoring ph and having a shutoff above a certain level work?

Yes it would but at great cost. For my set up it has been working as it should. My dosers have an auto shutoff feature so I trust them atleast as much as I have too. It's one of those things that you don't skimp on so you can trust them and not worry about them. Generally speaking most dosing pumps fail in the off position making this a not impossible but very very unlikely scenario. I'm far more worried about an earthquake wiping out my tank than my dosing pumps failing.

If the redundancies are too expensive and dosing pumps just can't be trusted in your eyes you can always just manual dose