Dosing question

how much alk are you guys dosing per day? My alk seems to be dropping quick and I'm not sure where on average I am out of curiosity. I was dosing 30ml total per day( 15ml twice per day). It was stable for a while now it's dropping. I went to 18ml twice a day and it's still dropping. Now I'm at 15ml 3 times a day. Does this seem like a lot?

 

It's a 90 gallon tank

 

Calcium is high 570 so I stopped dosing was dosing 15ml twice a day. Mag is a little high about 1450 not dosing. Think those two may be high because of having to raise the salinity from the refractometer issue a few weeks ago.

 

Sunday or Monday it was 8.3. Checked it last night and it was 7.6. Checked with Hannah then rechecked with salifert.

 

That's what I've been doing. Just wasn't sure if I was dosing a lot or a little compared to what others were dosing. Lol

 

Totally depends on your bioload. I had a small 50 gal tank with a clam and corraline and still logged 1 dkh/day. Your dose is totally depenent upon what you are dosing (BRS solution? Soda Ash/Baked BS, regular BS, etc.). 1-2 dkh/day for me isn't "a lot" IMO.

I've used this calculator, but you can use any of them out there. BRS is fine.

Using Reef Crystals, perchance?

http://reef.diesyst.com/flashcalc/flashcalc.html

 

FWIW: I have a 200 gal system with smallish SPS and such, one medium clam, small clam and I dose 120 mL of Randy's Part 1/day.

 

This is my first time with corals. Always had seahorse tanks. Wasn't sure if what I was dosing seemed like a lot or not. Apparently I'm still on the low end of the scale. Lol.
I'm using salinity salt.