Advice? BRS 2 Part Dosing Question

usully you add more alk then calc.

You need to know how much your system is using ever day.

Too much is way more harmful then not enough

 

If you are using the BRS calculator, make sure you are selecting the right type of Ca additive. It should be about 9oz of Ca to raise it up 50ppm or something like that....anyways it should be noticeably different than the 2oz of Alk you dose to raise 1 dKH.

 

Using the BRS 2 part additives. After you manually dose both parts to the levels you want. Then stop dosing for 3 or 4 days. Test your level on 3rd or 4th day and figure you tanks demand and divide by 3 or 4 days. Then go to the BRS reef calculator and put in your numbers. Onec you figure demand divide that by your 3 or 4 days. And that's your dose.
With the BRS 2 part you are supposed to dose equal amounts of alkalinity and calcium otherwise you get an in balance and you will be chasing numbers all the time.
I get my alkalinity dose dialed in where I want and dose equal amount of calcium. Mine runs 7.5 dhk and 410 calcium dosing equal parts . I test alkalinity 3 times a week and calcium about 2 times a month. Magnesium I test 1 time a month. But if I have to adjust dosage I test daily until it's stable for a couple weeks.
When adjusting parameters never use tour dose to do this. Do that manually and only adjust your dozer a ml or 2 at a time and test often. Otherwise you will be chasing numbers up and down.
Only adjust alkalinity .5 dhk per day, calcium 50 ppm and magnesium 100 ppm per day with corals in tank. Otherwise you will have problems.
Also when adding 2 part, dose at least 10 minutes between each part otherwise you will have precipitation. I dose alkalinity top of the hour and calcium 10 minutes after that. Mine is setup to dose 24 times a day.
There are helpful videos on BRS and very good articles on reef central and reef2reef. Just search Randy Holms-Farley 2 part and read up.
Hope that helps

 

Lol. Thanks Bud. That it what I meant.