Dosing

I’m no expert but I would say you don’t need a doser yet. Especially if your are doing “beginner corals” which usually are softies. Even if you get some lps or even some easy sps. It’ll take awhile for them to grow big enough to suck up much calcium and alk. And if you do eventually need to start dosing it’s should be small at first so I would just do by hand or use kalkwasser. But I personally believe water changes will be enough for the beginning. And obviously you should be testing so you know what’s going on in the tank.

 

Nicely put Fred.

 

Ya, you'll be fine with water changes. It wouldn't hurt to have some calc/alk/mag on hand if it called for it, but until you start seeing those numbers take a dive, and your corals look ragged right before a water change, you don't need to dose.

It would however be a good time to cruise the ebay/craigslist/etc for bargins on dosers if you're planning on more down the road. I do find even if I don't have a lot of corals, they'll grow faster and stay alive easier if I have dosers setup. At the very least, an active alkalinity doser is real nice.