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Articfox32
, 03-29-2013 at 02:53 PM (6944 Views)
I have had my 60 gallon cube tank up and running for the last 4 months, I am stocking the tank with LPS and SPS. I am looking into purchasing a dosing pump and have been looking at the bubble Magnus brand. I have been having some problems with low ph and alkalinity. Ph is constantly at 7.8-7.9 while the last alkalinity test is around 4.5-5 DKH. Will adding a dosing pump while dosing calcium, alkalinity and mag help bring up my ph to there proper levels. I am looking for a more stable way of keeping the parameters constant in my tank. Any advice would be helpful.

Corals so far are:
mars red planet , green birds nest, tri color valida acro, birds of paradise, blue hornet zoas, wall hammer, torch coral, purple frog spawn, sunset montipora,and a Flavia brain coral.

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  1. melev's Avatar
    Yes, regular dosing will help, but all you are doing is automating what you can do by hand. When I had my 29g and 55g tanks running, I used ESV's B-Ionic, dosing both Part A and Part B every morning. It only took 30 seconds per part, pouring it in at a trickle in an area of high flow, and then I dosed the other tank. The reason to dose it early in the morning is because this is usually when the tank's pH is at its lowest, and the alkalinity dose will boost pH in the tank. It's a buffer, after all.

    A dosing pump will add these solutions for you via a timer. You'll have to determine how long it needs to run to add the exact amount you want dosed, and once you know that duration, set your timer to do so once a day. You could even cut the dose in half, dosing every 12 hours if you wanted, or in quarters for every six hours... you get the idea.

    There is no need to chase pH levels - pH wil take care of itself if you have the correct salinity, alkalinity, calcium and magnesium levels. Get your Alkalinity to 8 dKH, and pH will rise accordingly.

    If you've not read this article yet, please do. It's always accessible from the footer of the site:
    http://www.reefaddicts.com/content.p...-Water-Quality
  2. Alaska_Phil's Avatar
    In my 55 I use Kalkwasser for top off, and manually dose Alk with a soda ash solution weekly. The Kalk keeps the Ca up, but doesn't quite do the trick for Alk. My tank goes through about a gal of kalk a day.
  3. Articfox32's Avatar
    I ordered a bubble magnas dosing pump and it should be here tomorrow, along with 2 mp-10's so I can take the mp-40 out and put back on big tank. I believe even with a mp-40 I was getting a couple dead spots which I believe was forming some cynro algae.
    In a 60 cube would it be better to have the vortechs in sync or anti-sync?
    What's a good brand of media to dose with? To start with I bought bulk reef supply media. Is there a better brand?
  4. melev's Avatar
    Flow patterns are really personal preference. With a 60g, I would think Sync would be better. I'm going to be setting up a 60g cube myself, with an Mp40w ES soon.

    Brand of which type of media?
  5. Articfox32's Avatar
    The ones that I bought are bulk reef supple of calcium, alkalinity, magnesium chloride, magnesium sulfate.
  6. melev's Avatar
    That should be fine.