8 Pump Dosing unit

Raxnar · Apr 30, 2018

My tank is still quite young, hardly any corals at the moment so I don't need to be super concerned about daily dosing just yet.

I am contemplating following the Red Sea Mixed Reef Recipe one day.

This thread is purely hypothetical at this stage and can be a fit for other multi-part methods.

If I do go down this rabbit hole, there are 10 components to the recipe.

Foundation A - Calcium
Foundation B - Alkalinity
Foundation C - Magnesium
Trace Color A
Trace Color B
Trace Color C
Trace Color D
Reef Energy A
Reef Energy B
NoPox

NoPox I use today and dose based off of Nitrate/Nitrate and ammonia testing.
Same for Alkalinity but based of Alk testing.

This leaves a potential for needing up to 8 dose pumps to adhere to the program. 10 if you integrate NoPox and Alk dosing.

The most pumps in a single unit I've seen so far is 4.

There are products that allow you to daisy chain up to 11 pumps. This would work but is 3 units.

What I'm wondering is if anyone has come across any 8 pump dosing unit?

Then there is the option of Apex integration. There isn't any as Neptune make a 2 pump Dosser. This quickly becomes very cost prohibitive... lol.

From what I see, something like the Bubble magus Dose pump or perhaps the Coral-Box Wifi may be the ones I'll look into further.

pdxmonkeyboy · Apr 30, 2018

i would consider just dosing alk, cal, and A and B. there is no need to automate mag dosing unless you are forgetful or something. Same goes for all the trace elements. It is not like they get utterly depleted in a day.. or a week for the matter.

Buy a HIGH QUALITY doser for your cal and alk, maybe just get a jebao for the other stuff.

i agree, the apex DOS pumps are stupid expensive

kz4q66 · Apr 30, 2018

Foundation C - Magnesium
Trace Color A
Trace Color B
Trace Color C
Trace Color D
These can be dose manually once a week.

Reef Energy A and B need to be refrigerated after open so might not need a dosing pump for it.
So one 4 head dosing pump for the rest.

Raxnar · May 1, 2018

Brian Bieger said:
i would consider just dosing alk, cal, and A and B. there is no need to automate mag dosing unless you are forgetful or something. Same goes for all the trace elements. It is not like they get utterly depleted in a day.. or a week for the matter.

Buy a HIGH QUALITY doser for your cal and alk, maybe just get a jebao for the other stuff.

i agree, the apex DOS pumps are stupid expensive

Good points all around.

The Coral-Box is the one I'd lean to. Although the GHL does look nice and gets lots of recommendations but I don't know if it can run stand alone of if you need a profilux controller.

Raxnar · May 1, 2018

kz4q66 said:
Foundation C - Magnesium
Trace Color A
Trace Color B
Trace Color C
Trace Color D
These can be dose manually once a week.

Reef Energy A and B need to be refrigerated after open so might not need a dosing pump for it.
So one 4 head dosing pump for the rest.

Good to know, the way I read it, it sounded daily.

Also good point about Reef Energy A and B.

Thanks!

Support@GHLUSA · May 1, 2018

Raxnar said:
Good points all around.

The Coral-Box is the one I'd lean to. Although the GHL does look nice and gets lots of recommendations but I don't know if it can run stand alone of if you need a profilux controller.

The GHL Doser comes in 2 flavors; Standalone(SA) and Slave.
If you own a ProfiLux, this would be your “brain” and you’d just buy Slave Dosers...
if you do not own a ProfiLux, you’d buy a Standalone as your brain, and if you need more than 4 pumps you add a Slave Dosers subsequently... up to 16 Pump heads, 1x Standalone + 3 Slave units

Slaves are a little less $ than standalone units.

Raxnar · May 1, 2018

Marco@GHLUSA said:
The GHL Doser comes in 2 flavors; Standalone(SA) and Slave.
If you own a ProfiLux, this would be your “brain” and you’d just buy Slave Dosers...
if you do not own a ProfiLux, you’d buy a Standalone as your brain, and if you need more than 4 pumps you add a Slave Dosers subsequently... up to 16 Pump heads, 1x Standalone + 3 Slave units

Slaves are a little less $ than standalone units.

Thank you very much for the clarification!

Do the GHL Dosers have Wifi configuration by chance?