How To: Dosing Two Part in Your Reef Tank
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http://brs.li/2partdosing So why do they call it two part when there are really three parts? Why can't I mix everything and add it to my tank? These questions and more will be answered in this episode of BRStv. Maintaining calcium and alkalinity in your saltwater aquarium is essential to the health and growth of your corals. Corals use these elements to produce their skeletal structure and once they consume it, you will need to replenish it. Also, all the creatures in your reef tank require stable alkalinity and pH to thrive. Two part dosing is a great way to achieve this consistency. Mixing the solutions is easy. Bulk Reef Supply has a 2 Part Calcium & Alkalinity total package with includes the dry materials as well as the jugs to do the mixing and storage. Follow the instructions in the video and always make sure the solutions are completely dissolved before starting your dosing regimen. Note: Never mix the calcium and alkalinity to dose one solution. As soon as you mix them, the would instantly precipitate out and the solution would be useless. Most reefers keep the calcium of the tank around 420 ppm, alkalinity between 7-10 dKH and Magnesium at 1350 ppm. First determine the levels of your tank. Using the BRS Reef Calculator you can easily get directions on the proper dosage to increase your levels. Once your levels reach the desire amount, it is then essential to maintain those levels and that is where daily dosing comes in. You'll need to determine the amount your tank is consuming. First start by determining the volume of your tank and sump and whether your tank is high, medium or low demand. We recommend starting with a lower dose, testing and then raising the dose if necessary. It is always easier to add more than take away. Test and adjust, test and adjust, until you find the proper levels have stabled. Once you figure out the amount to add, always add it to a high flow area of the tank. Make this part of your daily schedule like feeding - do it all at once. So the final step in all of this is Magnesium. Magnesium is not consumed at the same rapid rate as calcium and alkalinity. Magnesium is important because it is the presence of magnesium that allows us to maintain high levels of calcium and alkalinity in the first place. So after you have dosed all calcium and alkalinity solutions (1 gallon of each), it is time to dose 20 ounces or 2 1/2 cups of the magnesium solution. Again, do this in a high flow area of the tank or in smaller amounts over time (but this isn't necessary). You won't need to dose magnesium again until after you dose another full gallon of calcium and full gallon of alkalinity. Making this process easier on yourself can be done by automating it with dosing pumps - one pump for each solution (calcium and alkalinity). Add an inexpensive outlet timer or control the function through an Apex or ReefKeeper. Bubble Magus, Vertex and Fauna Marin make dosers which can be programmed to your specific needs. Are you dosing two part in your reef tank? What is your set up for two part dosing? Thanks for watching BRStv.
Am I correct in thinking that Calcium and KH are used up at the same rate?
My current parameters are 8 dKh and 410 calcium, I'm stocked with very few LPS corals and no SPS corals. I do have some coralline starting to grow which I want to maintain calcium and KH to spread the coralline. However my problem seems to be that I'm losing about 0.2 dKh per day, my calcium only drops maybe 10ppm every 2 weeks or so. Meaning i'm having to dose for KH every day but not dosing for calcium at all. Why does my KH drop but my calcium doesn't? Thanks
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10. comment for How To: Dosing Two Part in Your Reef Tank
Here is a great resource video we did on bringing your 2-part dosing back to balanced. :-) https://youtu.be/hSg3KGTuRCo
if you start mixing the magnesium solution and forget how many cups you put in there because you got distracted..is their anyway to test the actual solution to see if it's "correct"?
thank you!
i mean i use calcium reactor in my tank so is it required doing dosing to my tank. As i am planning to build a 800+ gallon aquarium probably heavily populated with fishes and corals..
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/reef-calculator/
20. comment for How To: Dosing Two Part in Your Reef Tank
With the BRS stuff, you can use supplements like Fauna Marin or Red Sea for example to add trace elements to it, however I haven't found it to be 100% necessary.
30. comment for How To: Dosing Two Part in Your Reef Tank
Do you have any corals in the tank?
Should i be running a skimmer? was thinking of hang on back cpr aeroforce?
If I dont run a skimmer how do I get co2 out?
Thanks
When it comes to pH issues it is probably a factor of how much CO2 you have in your water. Simply opening a window in your house or venting your skimmers air intake outside is usually enough to raise pH. What are you using to test for it?
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/calcium-alkalinity-trace-elements/dosing.html
https://youtu.be/eGJaPocRErc?list=PLBaMLrfToJyybUT18OE3fMomFb9XU0ffC
http://aquarium.bulkreefsupply.com/search?w=automatic%20elements&asug=
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/reef-calculator
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Once I do my water change I am taking out a bunch of water that has these doses already mixed in......So once you do the water change, you now have to add the doses back in to bring it up, right? just like salinity level.........
I have never done this before but I am getting ready to start dosing my tnak
do i dose 100 per day to get it to 1300
and how much will a gallon solution raise the mag level in about 75 gallons including sump
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i have a 65 gallon rimless...im using fusion 1 and 2....and aqua vitro balance...25ml of 1 and 25ml of 2 ,to my tank everyday. should i change to the soda ash...and so on of the products used in the video...i have several sps...and lps in my reef.
it is a horrible pest in my tank.
all my 140 kg of live rock is infected :(
hi and thanks again :)
my tank is a 165x65x70 with sump.in my sump i got a tunze 9410 skimmer, a small ats with 30 watt led, a 4750 l/h return pump.in the displaytank i got 2 jebao rw 20 running on 5th speed.my lights are a mix of t5(160 watt) and 200 watt led(mix blue and white 3)i got about 140kg liferock.no sps but do have leathers and lps.my fishpopulation is:1 chromis verdis,1pseudocheilinus hexataenia,1 Acreichthys tomentosus,1 yellow tang,1 veliferum tang,4 anthias kashiwae,1Nemateleotris Decora.,1 salarias.i also got 2 cleaner shrimps,1Turbo Fluctuosa Mexico,some other snails,2Astropecten Polyacanthus and a Mespilla Globulus Green. greets Ben
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfQ-8DcwqFI
and a little more about Reef Savvy here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyPGJ4ndxV0
And how do i deal with ich? i really need your help on this.
$5,000.00 on this system. PLEASE HELP!
thanks for the 2 part vid!
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I stopped dosing for 48 hours. Alk dropped from 10.1 to 8.1. Your calculator says 120ml of alk. Calcium dropped from 340 to 320. Your calculator says 170ml of calcium solution. What do you suggest next?
I have adjusted in both directions and also stopped before. The levels just plummet. I have been dosing in this range for months but any time I reduce the amounts the levels get so low things start having major issues. And yes I have precipitate issues too. But if I reduce the dose the levels get way too low really fast. I went from 150 to 100 recently and my alk went from 10 to 9 in a week.
Thank you.
THanks. But i just bought the 2 part system so it is full. I understand what you say and may give it a go next time but any ideas for now? Would it be any difference if i drip feed or something? Thanks in advance
I think he means the titrator from Red Sea.