HELP, BABY BRAIN!

[Savi_george]

Guys, you’ve gotta help me out. I don’t know if it’s because I’m stupid, if it’s the baby brain or the 70 hour working week but I’m down to the final hours of my very little spare time for the week and I’m sat here staring into space trying to figure this out (which is embarrassing). I usually dose which ever 1,2 & 3 or A,B &C liquid I can grab from a tank shut down on Facebook but I’ve recently run out and I’m left with a “back of the cupboard” job. In the picture, I have Aquaforest magnesium & calcium salts then a pure KH by Reeflowers. The containers I use for my foster is 800ml and I have my own RO water. At this moment in time, I DONT KNOW WHAT MY TANK USES DAY TO DAY so please…don’t ask me to find out because I just don’t have the time right now, ill find out through the week but right now…I’ve no idea. I was previously adding about 3ml a day of aqua forest 1+ 2+ 3+ and everything was fine so I never messed with it. I just want to replicate that as best I can.

Can a chemistry whizz please just take a Quick Look, it’s a 450ltr system with the sump, weekly water change of 50ltr, I just want a general reef dosing amount for these salts and know how much to dilute in grams for a 800ml vessel.
Thanks in advance for going against the grain and restraining from shouting “it’s not that simple” or “you really should just figure out how much the tank uses first”.

 

[Garf]

Guys, you’ve gotta help me out. I don’t know if it’s because I’m stupid, if it’s the baby brain or the 70 hour working week but I’m down to the final hours of my very little spare time for the week and I’m sat here staring into space trying to figure this out (which is embarrassing). I usually dose which ever 1,2 & 3 or A,B &C liquid I can grab from a tank shut down on Facebook but I’ve recently run out and I’m left with a “back of the cupboard” job. In the picture, I have Aquaforest magnesium & calcium salts then a pure KH by Reeflowers. The containers I use for my foster is 800ml and I have my own RO water. At this moment in time, I DONT KNOW WHAT MY TANK USES DAY TO DAY so please…don’t ask me to find out because I just don’t have the time right now, ill find out through the week but right now…I’ve no idea. I was previously adding about 3ml a day of aqua forest 1+ 2+ 3+ and everything was fine so I never messed with it. I just want to replicate that as best I can.

Can a chemistry whizz please just take a Quick Look, it’s a 450ltr system with the sump, weekly water change of 50ltr, I just want a general reef dosing amount for these salts and know how much to dilute in grams for a 800ml vessel.
Thanks in advance for going against the grain and restraining from shouting “it’s not that simple” or “you really should just figure out how much the tank uses first”.

The pure KH one don't make sense, sais it's DKH increasing calcium chloride. Anyhow you have been adding a tiny amount of calcium, Alk and magnesium daily, is it a softy tank?

ill find out through the week but right now…

I think you have time due to the small amount dosed. You could get away with a little bicarbonate of soda mix and a very small syringe. As for calcium and magnesium, you don't need to worry about them yet.

 

[Savi_george]

The pure KH one don't make sense, sais it's DKH increasing calcium chloride. Anyhow you have been adding a tiny amount of calcium, Alk and magnesium daily, is it a softy tank?

I think you have time due to the small amount dosed. You could get away with a little bicarbonate of soda mix and a very small syringe. As for calcium and magnesium, you don't need to worry about them yet.

I never use to does because like you said, small amounts of drop offs in levels. But as it increased I couldn’t keep up with water change replenishing. The small amount for yes, a mostly lps tank (pic below) was doing the trick but it was obviously so easy with the 1+ 2+ 3+. Idiot proof. The salts are fairly straight forward and I’ll put in the too me this week to figure out a routine but like you said, I couldn’t make sense of the pure kh and definitely couldn’t make a plan to have it work along side the aqua forest. I think I’ll invest in the complete range this week