All for reef dosing

[islandVib3s]

I'm making the switch to all for reef and wondering how much pple are dosing for a stocked 100 gallon mixed reef tank. I'm trying to plan ahead for my trip which will be a month long and how much stuff I need to prepare and which doser you all would recommend.  I was thinking something programmable.  I also have 5L containers I ordered. I'm also running a avast kalk reactor but I want to start adding the traces and other additive I usually hand dose. Picture of my setup for attention and that this will be going on.it will hit 1yrs old jan 1st! 

[obrien.david.j]

Good looking tank.   And I'm impressed it takes three remote controls to keep it running. 

(Can't help you with all for reef.  I'm a CaReactor/Kalk user.)

[Greg123]

You’ll probably be around 25 to 50 ML a day would highly recommend you buy a magnetic stirrer off Amazon and make your own it is super easy.

Edited December 26, 2022 by Greg123

[islandVib3s]

10 minutes ago, Greg123 said:

You’ll probably be around 25 to 50 ML a day would highly recommend you buy a magnetic stirrer off Amazon and make your own it is super easy.

Yea I have the mag stirrer and afr powder.thx

[Jeff.Tichenor]

Here is the calculator for all-for-reef. https://www.tropic-marin-smartinfo.com/all-for-reef?lang=en

Here is a R2R thread..

Thread 'How to calculate 2part dose from existing AFR consumption?' https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-calculate-2part-dose-from-existing-afr-consumption.902288/

[ShoeCrew]

I use ghl KH director. It has a free dosing head which I use for the dosing all for reef. I use 25 ml per day, it keeps my tank at 9 dkh. I did not set the ghl to dynamically to adjust the dosing amount for all for reef, since I only measure twice a day. It is just 5 times a day, 5ml/dose. In addition, I make a 20g water change once a week. The whole system is around 150g. (4x2x2, sump+20g tote refugium) 

I left this system for vacation for 3 weeks during the summer without any loss or impact. 

I have mostly montipora, leptos, cyphestrea, chalice and Zoas. All the hard corals are relatively small though. 

[islandVib3s]

2 minutes ago, ShoeCrew said:

I use ghl KH director. It has a free dosing head which I use for the dosing all for reef. I use 25 ml per day, it keeps my tank at 9 dkh. I did not set the ghl to dynamically to adjust the dosing amount for all for reef, since I only measure twice a day. It is just 5 times a day, 5ml/dose. In addition, I make a 20g water change once a week. The whole system is around 150g. (4x2x2, sump+20g tote refugium) 

I left this system for vacation for 3 weeks during the summer without any loss or impact. 

I have mostly montipora, leptos, cyphestrea, chalice and Zoas. All the hard corals are relatively small though. 

I'll probably get a hydros doser . I'll likely have some losses but I'm hoping I don't. 

[Jeff.Tichenor]

39 minutes ago, islandVib3s said:

I'll probably get a hydros doser . I'll likely have some losses but I'm hoping I don't. 

The Hydros doser needs the Hydros controller. Just FYI 

[islandVib3s]

1 hour ago, jtichenor said:

The Hydros doser needs the Hydros controller. Just FYI 

I know lol I have one now.

[Totroc3]

I use 45ml on my Reefer 350. I use an Apex DOS. It took a while for me to figure out how much to dose so leave yourself enough time to dial it in. My corals thrive using AFR. Like ShoeCrew, I also do 20 gallon water changes weekly.