Your explanation makes a lot of sense. I have been watching dosing videos and reading books etc. on the subject for years, but your video was the easiest to understand.
I appreciate how real you are! I need more straight to the point content. Started my tank in February using dry dead rock for the first time. My ugly brown stage has been going strong ever since. I hate it. I'm about to go all Rico and throw 50 turbo snails on it.
Travis, excellent content, especially for newbies to reefing (like me). Finding your channel to be an excellent resource, so wanted to say a sincere "Thank You"! 👍
When you say to dose in equal parts like 10ml or alk and calc what if the mixture cal/alk solution has a different ratio of 1:2 or does it still not matter? Some people say to dose more alk and less calcium etc so thats why i ask
Yep me too I dose 10ml Alk every hour from 10am- 3pm and always at 9dkh and dosing 10ml in the evening once on calcium its always at 480. But recently my alkalinity has dropped to 8dkh not sure why calcium is at 480. Here is my question do I up kh 10ml dosing 4pm and 5pm and test 24 hrs later or up my calcium to match exactly my dosing of alkalinity. It's 69 gal tank with Lps corals and couple of sps corals. Using hanna checker and salfert for kh test so it's correct. After water change every 10 days I replace 60litres and kh back to 9.4 and cal at 480. What's best in uk 🇬🇧 not dosing 2 part brs using aquaforest kh buffer power mixed in 2litre dosing container 80grams and same 80grams calcium from aquaforest power.
Lots of great content, but FYI for me I like to have my duh at 9.8-10, but when doing a water change the new mix is usually 8.2 so I actually add some all to new water so I don’t drop my dkh after water change.. keep up the great work
thanks so much for posting these advice videos! im just getting into the hobby and im looking around at as many different sources of information as I can, and videos like yours have been super helpful. Your corals all look so beautiful, I hope I can have tanks like yours someday!!
Thanks for this video...I started two part dosing started increasing dose thinking it wasn working and lost a lot of soft corals....will start on water change and not dose and see what happens...thanks!
Lol to funny. Subscribed after seeing this video. Seen a few and like the realistic approach you have to helping folks. Keep kicking and happy reefing.
I have a 10-gallon tank with one branching coral in it. Looks like I don't have to dose it because of my water changes every two weeks. This video just saved me some money brotha.
Hey man. Thanks for all your content and hard work making such well thought out videos. I’ve been collecting all my equipment to start a 55gal reef little by little and learning a lot in the meantime. 👍
Just started my small 28gal reef tank which I got established already. I do have 5 other freshwater tanks and a koi pond. Was stressing on this dosing thing with so many products out there until I watched this video. Guess I should buy test kits first and go from there. Thanks!
Telling it like it is... I dig it! I love your videos. I use Kalk with 2 part and it took me some time to figure out how they interact. Now that things are rock solid and stable for about 18 months, I save a ton of money on two part.
I'm currently losing near 15 ppm of Alkalinity, almost 1 dkh, per day! In my 120L (33g) mixed tank. I use Coral Pro with their high value, so i don't dose much calcium and pretty much nothing for magnesium. Love your video.
Hey Travis, you are the best dude, I love your vids and actually because of you I am in the hobby. Best of luck for the new 2019 and I hope you are getting better.
Keeping an eye on your dkh it’s important because if it drops your Calcium will sky rocket and if your dkh it’s to high you’ll see the skeletons of your corals grow fast but not the tissue and magnesium keeps Calcium an Alk from binding so it’s very important to do your tests. Awesome video bud no bullshit in it and I really like that 💯👍🤟
Hello. Well It was thought that corals get stressed with salinity ,ph and temperature fluctuations , recently I heard light changes cause them stress and here with the alkalinity wow.)
Very informative. Helped me in rectifying my mistakes. Thanks a lot. Your videos help us in making our eco systems more balanced and lively. Thanks again.
Excellent !! as always great advice any particular order when dosing the chemicals manually and time lapse between dosing ? .... ..On another note , can you please do a video on how to feed the corals .. " Coral Feeding Challenge" ..it really is on many levels . I have a deep tank 90 cm and also lots of fish that keep hammering my corals when i try and feed them very annoying sometimes i bash them on the head to get out of the way ... Help
Very informative thanks. I’m dosing reef pro a and b. My alk is 11.1 and my calcium is 383 on a Wednesday. My water changes are on sundays with Red Sea coral pro. Do you recommend me dosing calcium separately on top of the 2 part?
Good day. New to dosing. Heard you say than if your alk is low and calcium is high or even normal equal parts are to be used. So let's say I need 15 MLS to raise my alk, do I have to dose 15 MLS of calcium? And when dosing like that, do I dose hours apart or a few minutes with regards to adding the alk and cal?
I dont understand why i should dose both parts when my alk is low (6.7) and ca is high (475). Can i not dose alk only for a week or two to bring it back up to 7.5-8? I dont do water changes. Please explain
So if I have a tank that is consuming a lot of alkalinity but not much calcium and dosing 20 ml a day of both calcium and alkalinity I should up the dose to let’s say 40 ml a day to both the alkalinity and calcium rather than keeping the calcium at 20ml and raising the alkalinity dosage to 40 ml?
hi dont no if you will know this but do you no how meany dkh your tank tacks a day just so i no how much it tacks on a well grow in tank do no if you will no coz you use a calcium reactor dont have any experience wive one thanks so much thanks for the grat video
So my Ca is 480, Kh 7.6/7,9, and Mag 1350 I was dosing just 2 part trying to bring my Kh up but after this video I’m doing it wrong 🤦🏼♀️ so how I can start bring it my Kh up dosing both parts? I’m want to raise it to 8.4.
Okay, it's normally not my sense of humor, but the delivery of the nuts/pus line made me laugh out loud. So thank you not only for the education, but the chuckle as well.
say your dkh is at 7 and you want it at 9. would you need 100ml of dkh per day all at once or through out the day ? what measurement would you start out with?
Really nice video again, thanks for sharing, I do have some of the fish that you have- Purple Tang - Tomini and the Yellow Eye - could you make a video about the fish- not deep details but it will be kind of nice, I know you have made some in the past - but something new and also how do you deal with Nitrates with your tank.- For the first time I had Nitrates on my tank nothing major all the corals seems to be doing fine with the exception of my torch - one hammer and a duncan coral I am just doing 2 weekly water changes to regulate everything the way it was... Thank you in advance whether you make the video or not...
I got a question.. I dose 14mls of alk daily and it stays stable at 7.6, my Mag is stable at 1400, I dont dose calcium to drop it down but it keeps rising daily..its at 512 now from 476 yesterday.. red sed blue bucket at 1.026 salinity ? Any ideas why calcium is rising and not falling ? Thanks
Very nice video, taught me Im dosing wrong.. Never knew you have to dose Alk 1:1 Ca and it will stable itself. One more question; Can you dose Alk and Ca at the same time or for example Alk during the night and Ca during the day? Thankss
yes it doesnt matter when you dose only that at the end of the day you have equal amounts of both. Most people dose alk at night to help with ph and cal during the day. I personally dose every hour on top of the hour alk and 30 min later cal
what do you mean by equal parts of calcium and alk? So if you had a bottle of calcium and a bottle of alk if you needed 50 ml of alk would you does 50ml of cal.
I’m dealing with the issue of dosing too much alkalinity seems to stay at 7-7.2 DKH I kept adding more time to my ALK thinking it would raise it. Calcium is around 430 Should I just put my ALK to the same amount of time the calcium puts out? And take it from there? So it’s at equal parts
Hi There..I loved this video..I am , however, surprised at your advice when alk is low and cal is high..you recommend dosing two part equally...then you said you would likely find your alk rose and your calcium dropped from 500 to about 425..... that is GOOD NEWS if that is what would likely happen..so are you saying by dosing both your rise in alk corrects the calcium **even though you added more calcium**?????????? That is news to me big time!!!! ????
you dont need to dose magnesium in equal parts to your two part. I havent used that 123 component before but your tank will never use as much mag as cal/alk
Thanks for answering I have one more question do I bring up the alk and ca in freshly prepared saltwater before doing a water change if it doesn’t match my tank parameters ?
I have always done weekly water changes and kept my levels right on until i recently added a bunch of frags and alk dropped to 7. Your approach is a lot different than most. I am pretty new to the hobby so trying to get a lot of perspectives but I have been hearing that i have been doin it wrong. That weekly water changes dont keep it stable and its better to dose and change once a month! Like with kaklwasser, keeps it more steady. To be quite honest diffidently considering that route with 3 tanks! Plus I heard dkh should reamin very steady and its always 8.5 maybe 9.1 but in the same range but not on the same exact number and kalwasswer has the benefit of increasing ph, which most people say is good for growth. I know you have a lot of sps but a lot of people dont and sps has a very fast growth rate.
Jayson Hannah depends. Size of tank and bio load. What type/s of filtration you’re running. How much you feed. You’d want to test your water for nitrates mainly with fish only and do change when it gets over your threshold. I’d do it around 25ppm. Fish only is a lot more forgiving but not to be taken for granted.
Love the no B.S.approach. There is so much of it in this hobby one could easily drown.
Your explanation makes a lot of sense. I have been watching dosing videos and reading books etc. on the subject for years, but your video was the easiest to understand.
Free no bullshit advice, love your work 👍
My new favorite channel 💯!!!!
I died laughing when he said kicked in the pus
"For equality purposes" lmao
Marine life, we are stumped with the non-binary people, where do we kick them 🤣 🤣
That’s why I like this guy. Straight to it
Thanks! That’s a bad ass monti cap btw!! Very nice reef!!
This video changed everything i felt about this guy. Great informative video. With facts. Well put together as far as not leaving out information
Hah! Your one of the best on UA-cam and originally real, thanks for the help on this great topic!
I appreciate how real you are! I need more straight to the point content. Started my tank in February using dry dead rock for the first time. My ugly brown stage has been going strong ever since. I hate it. I'm about to go all Rico and throw 50 turbo snails on it.
Thank you very much, this is the best explanation of dosing I have seen. It helped me out a lot 👍 subscribed
Travis, excellent content, especially for newbies to reefing (like me). Finding your channel to be an excellent resource, so wanted to say a sincere "Thank You"! 👍
When you say to dose in equal parts like 10ml or alk and calc what if the mixture cal/alk solution has a different ratio of 1:2 or does it still not matter? Some people say to dose more alk and less calcium etc so thats why i ask
Yep me too I dose 10ml Alk every hour from 10am- 3pm and always at 9dkh and dosing 10ml in the evening once on calcium its always at 480. But recently my alkalinity has dropped to 8dkh not sure why calcium is at 480.
Here is my question do I up kh 10ml dosing 4pm and 5pm and test 24 hrs later or up my calcium to match exactly my dosing of alkalinity.
It's 69 gal tank with Lps corals and couple of sps corals. Using hanna checker and salfert for kh test so it's correct.
After water change every 10 days I replace 60litres and kh back to 9.4 and cal at 480.
What's best in uk 🇬🇧 not dosing 2 part brs using aquaforest kh buffer power mixed in 2litre dosing container 80grams and same 80grams calcium from aquaforest power.
Nice video lad, very good tips and info delivered in a no nonsense way
Amazing video bud! Not a topic alot of other reef keepers feel comfortable talking about.
Great video. Thx The growth in ur tank is insane. Looks amazing
Damn! Your tank is looking friggin GREAT bro!! Really sweet seeing this thing grow, good job brotha
Lots of great content, but FYI for me I like to have my duh at 9.8-10, but when doing a water change the new mix is usually 8.2 so I actually add some all to new water so I don’t drop my dkh after water change.. keep up the great work
thanks so much for posting these advice videos! im just getting into the hobby and im looking around at as many different sources of information as I can, and videos like yours have been super helpful. Your corals all look so beautiful, I hope I can have tanks like yours someday!!
What type of fish are the silver one with the yellow fins? Beautiful!
Yes.... thank you for cutting through all the marketing BS and actually helping people setup builds for success. Keep those videos rolling....
Great content !!
This is the best video on dosing. Thank you! I'm just starting to wander into dosing my tank and I can never get good info on it.
Thanks for this video...I started two part dosing started increasing dose thinking it wasn working and lost a lot of soft corals....will start on water change and not dose and see what happens...thanks!
this is both hilarious and informative. you win!
Lol to funny. Subscribed after seeing this video. Seen a few and like the realistic approach you have to helping folks. Keep kicking and happy reefing.
Back to the old days, love the attitude please keep it up
thank you for sharing your knowledge on reef
Great video, simplifies the whole dosing thing greatly. Thanks.
I have a 10-gallon tank with one branching coral in it. Looks like I don't have to dose it because of my water changes every two weeks. This video just saved me some money brotha.
are those monos?
Hey man. Thanks for all your content and hard work making such well thought out videos. I’ve been collecting all my equipment to start a 55gal reef little by little and learning a lot in the meantime. 👍
I enjoy being around people with the conviction to say what needs to be said.
Amazing knowledge! Great video! Thanks!
Just started my small 28gal reef tank which I got established already. I do have 5 other freshwater tanks and a koi pond. Was stressing on this dosing thing with so many products out there until I watched this video. Guess I should buy test kits first and go from there. Thanks!
Telling it like it is... I dig it! I love your videos. I use Kalk with 2 part and it took me some time to figure out how they interact. Now that things are rock solid and stable for about 18 months, I save a ton of money on two part.
Just did my tests on Hannah calcium was 343 and alkalinity was 6.7 so I think I need to dose this was a verry helpful video
I'm currently losing near 15 ppm of Alkalinity, almost 1 dkh, per day! In my 120L (33g) mixed tank.
I use Coral Pro with their high value, so i don't dose much calcium and pretty much nothing for magnesium.
Love your video.
So helpful this morning with new doser. OMG thxs
Thanks Travis!
I love the conclusion part of the video when he said “ if you dislike the video just unsubscribe and move on...!!😂😂😂
Great video, was thinking about using that pH buffer glad I watched this video b4 thx
Very informative best video on the subject .Thanks for the very clear explanation subbed!
Great advise, most folks i see dosing are adding additives and they have no idea what they are adding them for.
Hey kind of confused around 4:00 when you mention to add calcium with alk. Even if it it's already where it needs to be
Fish of hex pH buffer rant always makes me smile.
What lights do you use?
Do you Recommend Radion or Red Sea lights?
Thanks
Hey Travis, you are the best dude, I love your vids and actually because of you I am in the hobby. Best of luck for the new 2019 and I hope you are getting better.
Your rant nearly made me piss myself! haha been sub'd for a long time with no regrets!
Keeping an eye on your dkh it’s important because if it drops your Calcium will sky rocket and if your dkh it’s to high you’ll see the skeletons of your corals grow fast but not the tissue and magnesium keeps Calcium an Alk from binding so it’s very important to do your tests. Awesome video bud no bullshit in it and I really like that 💯👍🤟
Hello. Well It was thought that corals get stressed with salinity ,ph and temperature fluctuations , recently I heard light changes cause them stress and here with the alkalinity wow.)
Very informative. Helped me in rectifying my mistakes. Thanks a lot. Your videos help us in making our eco systems more balanced and lively. Thanks again.
Absolutely agree. Great video
such good info in this vid!!! all beginners need to watch this! nice one
Excellent !! as always great advice any particular order when dosing the chemicals manually and time lapse between dosing ? .... ..On another note , can you please do a video on how to feed the corals .. " Coral Feeding Challenge" ..it really is on many levels . I have a deep tank 90 cm and also lots of fish that keep hammering my corals when i try and feed them very annoying sometimes i bash them on the head to get out of the way ... Help
Very informative thanks. I’m dosing reef pro a and b. My alk is 11.1 and my calcium is 383 on a Wednesday. My water changes are on sundays with Red Sea coral pro. Do you recommend me dosing calcium separately on top of the 2 part?
Thanks for this video! Def help me understand more and clear up some things! Ima show this video to my dad. He needs to watch it!
Good day. New to dosing. Heard you say than if your alk is low and calcium is high or even normal equal parts are to be used. So let's say I need 15 MLS to raise my alk, do I have to dose 15 MLS of calcium? And when dosing like that, do I dose hours apart or a few minutes with regards to adding the alk and cal?
Great video as always keep them coming!
Thats what i like. tell it like it is. the rest can _ _ _ _ _ _ _ do what the rest do. good info here
I dont understand why i should dose both parts when my alk is low (6.7) and ca is high (475). Can i not dose alk only for a week or two to bring it back up to 7.5-8? I dont do water changes. Please explain
I don’t dose 2 part I dose mecoral all and calcium should I still be dosing equal parts?
please do a video on best way to clean equipment. trying to get a big skimmer clean at the moment and I'm sure there is an easier way.
Hi Travis that helps me cheers mate very good video 👍ps. Tank looking great👍
So if I have a tank that is consuming a lot of alkalinity but not much calcium and dosing 20 ml a day of both calcium and alkalinity I should up the dose to let’s say 40 ml a day to both the alkalinity and calcium rather than keeping the calcium at 20ml and raising the alkalinity dosage to 40 ml?
I have a canister and a HOB fuguim with skimmer and a good media to keep in my canister to support my tank?
This was quite helpful, thanks for making the vid.
How do I decrease Alkanity, calcium, magnicium. I am new to coral reef tank. Please advise.
hi dont no if you will know this but do you no how meany dkh your tank tacks a day just so i no how much it tacks on a well grow in tank do no if you will no coz you use a calcium reactor dont have any experience wive one thanks so much thanks for the grat video
So my Ca is 480, Kh 7.6/7,9, and Mag 1350 I was dosing just 2 part trying to bring my Kh up but after this video I’m doing it wrong 🤦🏼♀️ so how I can start bring it my Kh up dosing both parts? I’m want to raise it to 8.4.
good video travis. please more like this. greetings from europe :)
Okay, it's normally not my sense of humor, but the delivery of the nuts/pus line made me laugh out loud. So thank you not only for the education, but the chuckle as well.
say your dkh is at 7 and you want it at 9. would you need 100ml of dkh per day all at once or through out the day ? what measurement would you start out with?
👏👏👏 this video is on point!
Extremely informative !
Hi
If ive got to dose 50 ml of alk should i dose one hit or two x 25 ml in a redsea 250
Hi.. i use calcium reactor but my calcium is in high site around 480 and my kh is stable 7.7 .what i need to do with my crx to bring down calcium?
what do u do if to high. mine stays high 10.3-13
Awesome content in this episode Travis. Well done...Great depth of information and to the point...hope you are feeling well too brother...Peace..
Thank you so much for the info. That was such a clear and understanding way of explaining it all. 👍🏾
Really nice video again, thanks for sharing, I do have some of the fish that you have- Purple Tang - Tomini and the Yellow Eye - could you make a video about the fish- not deep details but it will be kind of nice, I know you have made some in the past - but something new and also how do you deal with Nitrates with your tank.- For the first time I had Nitrates on my tank nothing major all the corals seems to be doing fine with the exception of my torch - one hammer and a duncan coral I am just doing 2 weekly water changes to regulate everything the way it was... Thank you in advance whether you make the video or not...
I got a question.. I dose 14mls of alk daily and it stays stable at 7.6, my Mag is stable at 1400, I dont dose calcium to drop it down but it keeps rising daily..its at 512 now from 476 yesterday.. red sed blue bucket at 1.026 salinity ? Any ideas why calcium is rising and not falling ? Thanks
Very nice video, taught me Im dosing wrong.. Never knew you have to dose Alk 1:1 Ca and it will stable itself. One more question; Can you dose Alk and Ca at the same time or for example Alk during the night and Ca during the day? Thankss
yes it doesnt matter when you dose only that at the end of the day you have equal amounts of both. Most people dose alk at night to help with ph and cal during the day. I personally dose every hour on top of the hour alk and 30 min later cal
FishOfHex Aquatics very helpful thank you so much!
what do you mean by equal parts of calcium and alk? So if you had a bottle of calcium and a bottle of alk if you needed 50 ml of alk would you does 50ml of cal.
When is the best time of day to dose alk and cal?
I’m dealing with the issue of dosing too much alkalinity seems to stay at 7-7.2 DKH I kept adding more time to my ALK thinking it would raise it.
Calcium is around 430
Should I just put my ALK to the same amount of time the calcium puts out? And take it from there? So it’s at equal parts
show step by step putting a uv on sump to big tank
Lovely tank
I LOVE YOU. Thank you
Excellent video
Thank you!
The 300 is looking great!!
Hi There..I loved this video..I am , however, surprised at your advice when alk is low and cal is high..you recommend dosing two part equally...then you said you would likely find your alk rose and your calcium dropped from 500 to about 425..... that is GOOD NEWS if that is what would likely happen..so are you saying by dosing both your rise in alk corrects the calcium **even though you added more calcium**?????????? That is news to me big time!!!! ????
keeping it real is the best videos!
What about if magnesium is super high and I’m using 123 components from aqua forest should I dose mag in equal part as well ? Thank you
you dont need to dose magnesium in equal parts to your two part. I havent used that 123 component before but your tank will never use as much mag as cal/alk
Thanks for answering I have one more question do I bring up the alk and ca in freshly prepared saltwater before doing a water change if it doesn’t match my tank parameters ?
please add subtitle/cc for this video. thanks
This is the kinda content that just makes you say Hell Yeah!
I have always done weekly water changes and kept my levels right on until i recently added a bunch of frags and alk dropped to 7. Your approach is a lot different than most. I am pretty new to the hobby so trying to get a lot of perspectives but I have been hearing that i have been doin it wrong. That weekly water changes dont keep it stable and its better to dose and change once a month! Like with kaklwasser, keeps it more steady. To be quite honest diffidently considering that route with 3 tanks! Plus I heard dkh should reamin very steady and its always 8.5 maybe 9.1 but in the same range but not on the same exact number and kalwasswer has the benefit of increasing ph, which most people say is good for growth. I know you have a lot of sps but a lot of people dont and sps has a very fast growth rate.
How often should you do water charges if you have a "fish only" tank.
Jayson Hannah depends. Size of tank and bio load. What type/s of filtration you’re running. How much you feed.
You’d want to test your water for nitrates mainly with fish only and do change when it gets over your threshold. I’d do it around 25ppm. Fish only is a lot more forgiving but not to be taken for granted.
Nice content, will like to know about calcium reactor and color program, will love to know how r dosing it with ca reactor