Dosing B-ionic and calculating water volume with live rock and sand.

I am starting to dose with B-ionic 2 part calcium buffer system. Its new to me and I have a couple of questions about dosing.

First I am trying to find out exactly how much water I have in my tank. I have a 72 Gallon Bowfront and 110 pounds of Live rock and 80 pounds of live sand.

How do i know how much water is in my aquarium.

The second question is how do you dose B-ionic. It says to use a staring dose of 1 ml per 4 gal. Then says never add more than 1 ml per 1 gal. Im confused.

Thanks.

 

Pjracer
treat your tank as if its a 52 gallon tank for now

you have options IMO

test your parameters Calcium and DKH
add the B Ionic at 13mls ( because 52 divided by 4 = 13)
dose following instructions for 1 week
test again, see what new parameters are

And then either increase or decrease QTY or frequency of dosing to compensate for any drop or increase

option 2

test today without dosing anything
test again in 3 days time - having not dosed anything

this tells you how much calc and alk have been used over the 3 days

the product should tell you how much 1ml of fluid in 4 gallons will raise these levels

example if 1ml in 4 gallons raises the calc level by 12ppm
and your tank only used 18ppm calcium over 3 days
or 6ppm per day - then you would need to dose 1ml for every 8 gallons of water each day

is that OK and understandable?

Steve

 

There is a sticky on this board that will help:
http://www.3reef.com/forums/water-c...ater-volume-your-whole-reef-system-51209.html

 

Steve, Thanks for a little bit more understanding. I just dont want to od the tank.

Im going to start dosing today after my water change after i test my paramaters.

Thanks,

Pete