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Does anyone know a good auto doser, looking to start dosing for a innovative marine 20 gallon peninsula? Or could it be achieved with manual dosing?


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What is your daily consumption rates?

Dosers.. automatic and you dont forget. But also can have a potential to fail and dump a bunch.

Manual - Forget to dose and have swings in parameters.

Red Sea doser looks pretty cool.
 
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What is your daily consumption rates?

Dosers.. automatic and you dont forget. But also can have a potential to fail and dump a bunch.

Manual - Forget to dose and have swings in parameters.

Red Sea doser looks pretty cool.
Checked yesterday and everything wasn’t on the charts but all my corals are doing fine, tested with the Red Sea pro test kit


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I have an ATI DP 6, it has six dosing heads. I have ran it for 3 years without a single issue with the pump (knocks on wood). 6 heads was more than I need, but I would recommend at least a 4 head unit.

I did manually dose my test for a 15 years before I got an auto doser. I was pretty good about testing every morning and never forgetting to dose. If you have a routine it can work. For me, I have never left my house without a cup of coffee in the morning, so I would make coffee, test and dose the tank and when I was done with that the coffee would be ready. An unexpected hospitalization of my wife and me staying at the hospital with her crashed my reef in 2 days; so that sucked.

With the auto doser I am terrible about testing daily, but I still keep on it at least once or twice a week, which based on my coral growth this far (knocks on wood again) seems to be sufficient. I do an old reefers trick of keeping a digitata in my system, and if the polyps are retracted I know there is an alk issue.


The only issue I have ever had auto dosing is when one of my lines got wet and the alk line clogged. I was out of town and my wife was testing daily, so we caught it on day 2 but it can happen. I am currently dosing Two part, zoo plankton, and amino acids. I do dose vodka for stretches of time when I have nutrient issues as well, but haven't in awhile.
 
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Also, I forgot to ask, depending on what you are keeping daily dosing might not really be needed. In a 20g if you are focusing on softies or even some LPS you can get away with weekly dosing or weekly water changes with a salt mix that has elevated levels. A 50% weekly water change with some Red Sea Coral Pro might be more than adequate for you.
 

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I'm with above post ^^^ 20g is quite small to even need dosing. Best and easiest to just do regular water changes to make. You are also saving yourself alot of headaches and potential failures if you are not on point with your testing and dosing.

Until you get some good consumption with sps and lps in a larger tank, I personally wouldn't worry too much if u kept up with quality salt and water changes
 
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I have an ATI DP 6, it has six dosing heads. I have ran it for 3 years without a single issue with the pump (knocks on wood). 6 heads was more than I need, but I would recommend at least a 4 head unit.

I did manually dose my test for a 15 years before I got an auto doser. I was pretty good about testing every morning and never forgetting to dose. If you have a routine it can work. For me, I have never left my house without a cup of coffee in the morning, so I would make coffee, test and dose the tank and when I was done with that the coffee would be ready. An unexpected hospitalization of my wife and me staying at the hospital with her crashed my reef in 2 days; so that sucked.

With the auto doser I am terrible about testing daily, but I still keep on it at least once or twice a week, which based on my coral growth this far (knocks on wood again) seems to be sufficient. I do an old reefers trick of keeping a digitata in my system, and if the polyps are retracted I know there is an alk issue.


The only issue I have ever had auto dosing is when one of my lines got wet and the alk line clogged. I was out of town and my wife was testing daily, so we caught it on day 2 but it can happen. I am currently dosing Two part, zoo plankton, and amino acids. I do dose vodka for stretches of time when I have nutrient issues as well, but haven't in awhile.
Can you be my reef sensei haha


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