What Do you all Like to dose in your reef systems?

Dilan Patel · Sep 24, 2017

As it sates what do you like to dose. Not including Magnesium, Alk and Calc. Anything else is fair game. Do you hand dose them, auto dose? Trace elements? Anything I want to know why you dose it and does it have the desired effects you were looking for. Photos are great too!

Ill start. I auto dose everything but the only thing I currently dose is Acropower. I am not sure If I am getting what it describes but it is not hurting any so I let it dose hah. I did used to dose Red Sea coral colors but stopped but might strt it back up since I have now figured out my issue with PE and everything looks amazing.

marktea · Sep 24, 2017

Following, to new to give you any proven answers.

tdileo · Sep 24, 2017

Of course I do dose alk and CA (but that's not what you were asking lol). The only other thing I dose is Amino acids and they seem to help a lot with color, growth and PE. There are lots of different ones, such as AcroPower and Aquavitro Fuel, but essentially they serve the same purpose. In addition I do dose Kents Marine Coral Vite. Not sure if it does anything but I've used it from the start and I think if everything is doing well, no point in changing it

DSC reef · Sep 24, 2017

Acropower, 30ml daily manual dose.

Dilan Patel · Sep 24, 2017

30 ml daily. Wow what size tank. I am doing I think 8ml of Acropower for a 180 maybe I need to up the dosage.

DSC reef · Sep 24, 2017

75 gallon with 20 gallon sump. Dosing 2 years now. Love that stuff, noticed a difference in color for sure.

Dilan Patel · Sep 24, 2017

Must go throught that stuff like cotton candy haha. Might up my dosage slowly

Bunnee911 · Sep 25, 2017

Iron. Once a week for my algae.

Greybeard · Sep 25, 2017

Nothing. I don't like to dose anything. I like to enjoy my aquarium, like to watch the fishes swim, like to see the growth and coloration of my corals over time, like to cat nap to the sound of gently flowing water... Dosing is a chore, and one I try and do as little as possible.

Dosing pump with Triton Core7. Everything else is on an only as required basis, and just as minimal as possible. Nothing on any sort of regular basis. Note, tank is fairly new, things change, but I seriously doubt I'm _ever_ going to 'like' dosing.

HB AL · Sep 25, 2017

Reef energy A and B, trace elements.

zsuzsu · Sep 25, 2017

i run 1 zeovit reef and use their stuff, and i run 1 red sea rcp reef and use all their stuff at recommended dosages . both are nice but the red sea program is much easier, and has more growth. ...zsu

Jason mack · Sep 25, 2017

I'm on triton .. and have dosed lithium , strontium , manganese , or what ever else they advise .. other than that I dose 2000mg twice a day of vitamin C . And every now and again nitrate plus ..

Donovan Joannes · Sep 25, 2017

Daily dosing of amino mix, energy, vitality, iodide, iron, stronti, traces and some booze for my bacteria. Mixed reef, SPS dominated non-WC 75G tank.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Sep 25, 2017

Iron and silicate.

Ubergroover · Sep 25, 2017

Balling...it works!

Chiefmaster30 · Sep 25, 2017

zsuzsu said:
i run 1 zeovit reef and use their stuff, and i run 1 red sea rcp reef and use all their stuff at recommended dosages . both are nice but the red sea program is much easier, and has more growth. ...zsu

Do you keep your parameters at red sea's recommended levels?

sh4ne88 · Sep 25, 2017

Im on DSR (Dutch Synthetic Reefing) I dose daily. Alk, Ca, Iodine, Manganese, Carbon V/S and Fe Trace (iron trace element) on automatic dosing. and once a week Amino's and once at 10 days KZ A-Balance for the random bleeching of my acro's bottoms (some did before and it seemed to help)

Ubergroover · Sep 25, 2017

sh4ne88 said:
Im on DSR (Dutch Synthetic Reefing) I dose daily. Alk, Ca, Iodine, Manganese, Carbon V/S and Fe Trace (iron trace element) on automatic dosing. and once a week Amino's and once at 10 days KZ A-Balance for the random bleeching of my acro's bottoms (some did before and it seemed to help)

DSR? tank looks great..where can I read more about it?

DSC reef · Sep 25, 2017

Ubergroover said:
DSR? tank looks great..where can I read more about it?

@glennf

sh4ne88 · Sep 25, 2017

Ubergroover said:
DSR? tank looks great..where can I read more about it?

http://www.dsrreefing.nl

I'm from the netherlands but the site is in english mayb there is also a retailer in the us for it. It is great keeping my parameters verry steady on my 35 gallon tank[emoji1360]