Switching to Aquaforest on a 50g cube

[dzel]

I've been reading and keeping an eye on threads posted here and I have decided to make a switch to this line. My sps corals get a small growth but I can't see the nice bright pastel colors I saw when I bought them from a tank running Aquaforest.

I currently use Instant Ocean. I do a 20% water change every month on a 70g total volume. I also dose BRS part 2, both cal and alk are being dosed at 60ml per day over the course of 8 hours each.

Per another thread's recommendation, I bought the probiotic salt, component 1,2,3, vitalitity, amino mix, build, energy, probio f and np pro.

My numbers have been very stable for the past 4-5 months at:

Alk 8.3 - 8.5
Cal 400-410
Mg 1150-1180
Nitrate 5-10
Phosphates .0-.01

What would be a good way of switching over? I plan on doing 5% weekly water changes. I use neptune's dosing pump and could use them to dose all 3 components. I will manually dose the rest.

I'll post a few pictures of the current tank and will post bi-weekly pictures of the progress to keep track of my switch.

 

[HeadStrongGrafx]

Ive switched from Red Sea Coral Pro and did 10% changes every week for a month. Now Just 10% a month and things are looking great!

 

[jsker]

I started with the 1+2+3+ the components A,B,C the salt over a month period. I do a 10% a week and I am going to a bi monthly change starting in August.

 

[dzel]

Ive switched from Red Sea Coral Pro and did 10% changes every week for a month. Now Just 10% a month and things are looking great!

That's nice to hear. Hopefully I'll get great result out of it.

 

[dzel]

I started with the 1+2+3+ the components A,B,C the salt over a month period. I do a 10% a week and I am going to a bi monthly change starting in August.

I'm going to start doing a 10% every week for a couple of months and then I'll drop it to 5% a week.

 

[dzel]

How would I go around dosing the component 1,2,3 based on my numbers?

Also how do I start dosing the rest; energy, vitality, build, amino mix, np pro and pro bio f?

 

[jsker]

How would I go around dosing the component 1,2,3 based on my numbers?

Also how do I start dosing the rest; energy, vitality, build, amino mix, np pro and pro bio f?

You dose base off of water volume, and demand. I dose 80 gallons of volume with 45 ml in the am before light on one hour apart, and 45 ml when the light go out one hour a part for the 1+2+3+. Np Pro is 5 in the am and 5ml in the pm. I do not dose the energy, vitality, build, amino mix, pro bio F. I do dose the components A,B,C every other day 8ml once a day

I use the jaboa dosing pumps and have them celebrated