Just a little heads up. Don't let the name of the product fool you. AFR will be fine for a while until your corals start consuming more of the alk, cal & mag than what is being dosed with the AFR. When this happens, you simply can't add more AFR to compensate because the rest of the elements will be unbalanced. You will need to supplement Balling components A,B, or C as needed to maintain stability. I learned this lesson the hard way when my alkalinity bottomed out and I didn't have any alkalinity on hand to supplement the imbalance. I lost some expensive corals when that happened. I continued to use the product but with a much better understanding of how to use it. I test all parameters once a week, but I check Temp, Salinity, pH, Alkalinity daily. Last week I saw my alkalinity start to drop by a half point. I simply added a couple milliliters to my daily dose on my bubble magus auto doser and kept a close eye on my alkalinity. I am just about through this alkalinity swing and everything is going well. Like it never happened.
That is wrong the product works well even when you have big colonnies I had a 1400l Tank with big colonnies. Just test your alk regularly and not disbalance will happens as everything is balanced in the product. And a 0,5kh swing will harm not coral. Your problem was elsewhere or you not test enough regularly. Kh should be tested daily or every two days
It says on their website directions that it’s formulated in the correct dosages needed but not all corals consume at the same levels and you will occasionally need to dose whatever your corals are consuming. I mean it’s kinda common sense that you still have to test and dose accordingly. All for reef just handles the bulk. And the trace minerals. There are dozens of trace minerals you would have to dose otherwise.
chromis don’t usually care about salinity swings. if they do, then other fishes would. chromis just don’t generally like or shoal unless you have an area of sps they can commune in. i went from 7 to 1 in 1.5 years later. these guys are very aggressive eaters and will kill each other off
I dose all for reef and kalkwasser. I just went slightly under the needed level to stabilize my tank on all for reef then make up for rest of alk and calcium with kalk. It keeps my ph up.
@@zachary_smith1 it probably works but here in Europe we don't like kalkwasser to much because of clogging of pumps.. And it can give old tang syndrome after a few years
Hey man when am i suppose to use all for reef ? I now have around 20 corals and all seem to be doing great should i leave it alone or will adding some all for reef help them grow ?
Looks great! You are going to love AFR. I've been dosing it for well over a year now in my mix reef tank. It was probably the best thing I started dosing (besides Kalk at night). Enjoy, and Reef on! The corals will grow like gangbusters on the stuff! Watch the fireworks cloves. They love the stuff!
@@nosumpreefing8287sometimes with AFR one of the levels might drop or raise visa versa, for instance On a night with lights off you may notice a drop in alk, which will cause a spike in calcium, the AFR isn’t going to bring the numbers back to the right levels it’s used to keep them stable at what they are, by this I mean you should really make sure all your parameters are acceptable and the level your happy with before you start dosing AFR which should in theory then keep the levels stable. However if alk drops on a night and then you carry on dosing AFR all your doing is keeping them stable at that mark there now at does that make sense? The Kalkwasser is basically only going to effect alk and calcium so if he dosses kalk on a night my guess is that his alk is dropping a bit so he’s using the kalk to bring that level back up before resuming his AFR to keep his levels steady
Nice looking tank man! Love to see everything so healthy!!
Looks awesome. I love all for reef.
clean setup man i love all of reef it makes things way easier
Just a little heads up. Don't let the name of the product fool you. AFR will be fine for a while until your corals start consuming more of the alk, cal & mag than what is being dosed with the AFR. When this happens, you simply can't add more AFR to compensate because the rest of the elements will be unbalanced. You will need to supplement Balling components A,B, or C as needed to maintain stability. I learned this lesson the hard way when my alkalinity bottomed out and I didn't have any alkalinity on hand to supplement the imbalance. I lost some expensive corals when that happened. I continued to use the product but with a much better understanding of how to use it. I test all parameters once a week, but I check Temp, Salinity, pH, Alkalinity daily. Last week I saw my alkalinity start to drop by a half point. I simply added a couple milliliters to my daily dose on my bubble magus auto doser and kept a close eye on my alkalinity. I am just about through this alkalinity swing and everything is going well. Like it never happened.
Yeah in other words, test your damn tank while dosing it
That is wrong the product works well even when you have big colonnies I had a 1400l Tank with big colonnies. Just test your alk regularly and not disbalance will happens as everything is balanced in the product. And a 0,5kh swing will harm not coral. Your problem was elsewhere or you not test enough regularly. Kh should be tested daily or every two days
It says on their website directions that it’s formulated in the correct dosages needed but not all corals consume at the same levels and you will occasionally need to dose whatever your corals are consuming. I mean it’s kinda common sense that you still have to test and dose accordingly. All for reef just handles the bulk. And the trace minerals. There are dozens of trace minerals you would have to dose otherwise.
chromis don’t usually care about salinity swings. if they do, then other fishes would. chromis just don’t generally like or shoal unless you have an area of sps they can commune in. i went from 7 to 1 in 1.5 years later. these guys are very aggressive eaters and will kill each other off
The only thing, pH will not be too high and growth a little more slow then with non organic
I dose all for reef and kalkwasser. I just went slightly under the needed level to stabilize my tank on all for reef then make up for rest of alk and calcium with kalk. It keeps my ph up.
@@zachary_smith1 it probably works but here in Europe we don't like kalkwasser to much because of clogging of pumps.. And it can give old tang syndrome after a few years
Tank looks great ! I just switched to powder all for reef last week. 12 ml per day in 75 gal system
Hey man when am i suppose to use all for reef ? I now have around 20 corals and all seem to be doing great should i leave it alone or will adding some all for reef help them grow ?
How much do I dose all for Reef in a 50 gallon fish tank ???
I stopped using it because it was too hard for me to figure that out. Shortly after this video I went back to 2part
Can’t believe your putting LPs at same height as acros and they are both getting correct par. Cause acto needs 300 and LPs need 100-150
I moved them a bit to account for this, but it’s not a very deep tank
@@nosumpreefing8287 can i ask what par you are running? asking because i would love to get more acro was just scared to hurt my lps
What are you using for filtration?
Fluval 100 HOB with mechanical media, Chemipure Blue. Classic 1000HOB skimmer, and. UV sterilizer. Tons of flow.
@@nosumpreefing8287 where do your nitrate levels stay around ? That is a very simple set up i love it
chromis also need to eat like 3x a day
I auto feed five times a day
Looks great! You are going to love AFR. I've been dosing it for well over a year now in my mix reef tank. It was probably the best thing I started dosing (besides Kalk at night). Enjoy, and Reef on!
The corals will grow like gangbusters on the stuff! Watch the fireworks cloves. They love the stuff!
Hey why do you dose the kalk too?
@@nosumpreefing8287kalk is usually dosed at night to elevate ph
@@nosumpreefing8287sometimes with AFR one of the levels might drop or raise visa versa, for instance On a night with lights off you may notice a drop in alk, which will cause a spike in calcium, the AFR isn’t going to bring the numbers back to the right levels it’s used to keep them stable at what they are, by this I mean you should really make sure all your parameters are acceptable and the level your happy with before you start dosing AFR which should in theory then keep the levels stable. However if alk drops on a night and then you carry on dosing AFR all your doing is keeping them stable at that mark there now at does that make sense? The Kalkwasser is basically only going to effect alk and calcium so if he dosses kalk on a night my guess is that his alk is dropping a bit so he’s using the kalk to bring that level back up before resuming his AFR to keep his levels steady
Clean looking tank you’re definitely doing something right keep up the good work